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@GMM I need to go check out my bag of bone meal because I remember from a few years back a bag stated "from porcine sources" and I made a quip about pissed off pig rather than a mad cow. To me and for my purposes, bone is pretty much bone and the pig bone worked just fine. Never tried fish bone...

If you can cite an example of bone meal and the 'scary prion stuff' I will take serious note, but *I* have never seen it mentioned and you'd think mad cow or similar from using bone meal would make the news ... somewhere. Been keeping an eye out for anything related since right after I started...

I like and use bonemeal. I also only use it in fresh mixes and some reamends, never as a top dress. Totally agree with both Dr. W and GMM as to both break down time and amount needed. If it was added to your mix, you have enough now. What would really kick everything up a notch in flower and...

BIG +1 on the worm bin along with the compost pile. I usually stress the worm bin over the compost pile because everyone has 3 or 4 sqft in a corner somewhere and not everyone has a yard and/or inputs to do a compost pile. If you can, you should, and even better is having both. AFA the peat and...

Cool! I'll give the plusrite bulbs a shot next time I order bulbs. Also use a PLL-55 in a reading light set up. Most all bulbs are in the 6500k range, for growing and general house lighting. LOL, you get older and those lower k 'soft white' spectrums just don't work all that well. Wet

Mainly veg since I'm mostly outdoors for everything. I HAVE flowered with them, sorta, letting seeds develop on pollinated clones. The clones stayed in flower even under 18/6 (I really love this strain), and was very impressed with the resulting buds. They were also harvested way early, when...

No, the HO bulbs are higher wattage and use a different ballast. I've been using the 2'-2 bulb T5 HO for 5 years now in a closet for host plants and such and have been constantly impressed with them, but I'm mainly outdoors. I use 2 units and they replaced a 400w MH with better results. Not to...

For me. it isn't the de-wormers so much as herbicides. A local grower, known to me, used aged horse manure from his fathers horses and was aware of all medications the horses received. What he wasn't aware of was the weed&feed his dad had treated the pasture with. Went through the horse Ok...

Ok, I'm gonna offer my .02 and even that is overvalued. I think that the blood meal will fix you right up. Was gonna suggest that, but didn't feel like dealing with the blowback from 'eeewwwww blood meal'. Would also suggest a like amount of kelp meal for both the low K and the micros it brings...

I wouldn't be concerned, not with your mix with compost and worm stuff. Pretty much a non issue. Same with me. My "humus" component of my mix is ~60% pine bark fines and ~40% homegrown vermicompost. I worry not about lack of carbon. It IS confusing to think about it, till you realise your...

Google Blumat Troph, a watering system developed in Israel. No timers, pumps, or hoo rah, just works. Wet

Really, THAT!!!! ^^^^^ Starting a worm bin is ABSOLUTELY the best thing you can do for ANY organic growing. Takes up a big 3sq ft of space in a corner somewhere. This is #1 No's 2 and 3, if you have a yard, is start a few Comfrey plants and a compost pile. Comfrey is called "land kelp" for a...

GMM ... I've started adding greensand to my worm bins. Not so much for the worms, but the microbes to get it started on its lengthy breakdown. OP ... Yes, you need more aeration, but I would ditch the rice hulls as they break down fairly quick and turn to mush. Lava rock, I'm very MEH on for...

For what I use (Thuricide BT Concentrate), 4tsp/gallon is called for. I use 1tsp in a Qt sprayer. Be sure and use a wetting agent/spreader sticker so it stays on the leaf. It must be ingested to be affected. Mine clearly states on the label that there is no danger to honey bees, or any...

That'll work ^^. In a lot of the world it's also called Treacle (?). RR is spot on. Wet

It will. VOE Wet

It works for a very simple reason that many fail to grok. A liquids pH has, at best, just a temporary effect on a soils pH, while the soil's pH has a huge and lasting effect on the liquids pH. That is, the soil will bring the liquids pH to the soil's pH. That 3.6pH of the tea will soon be the...

I'm really lazy when it comes to comfrey, about the most I'll do is *filet* the leaves, cutting the stem off just below the leafy part. Those get left in the comfrey bed along with partially broken down leaves and anything I've missed. Mostly, the green fresh leaves get stuffed in a plastic food...

Just reuse/reamend the soil as organic and the remnants of the chem salts will leach out on their own and in pretty short order. VOE Wet

I would call bullshit on the claims. Alex Jones level bullshit. Not safe for agriculture? That's a joke if you know any homebrewers or have homebrewed, or have ever seen the workings of a malting house. Shit is like a lab AFA cleanliness. Wet