overTHEman
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Maybe some stakes for helga? She's too much of a beauty to cut.
The polyploids rock, it will be fun to watch these flower. I'm interested to know if their resin production will differ from the regular buds, or if they will smoke any different. Did you get a clone of the plant? Would it be possible to reveg her to preserve the mutation??
As for the rust spots...
WARNING - (You're about to embark on a serious OrganiRant. I apologize for the length but there's no quick answer to the question of bottled organics.)
Bottled organic nutes can be tricky as they are a bit of a contradiction. In organic gardening, the soil's microbiology reacts to the plant's needs and provides nutrition through the carbon exchange from the soil food web. For these purposes, "organics" can be qualified into two categories: requiring the presence of oxygen and requiring the absence of oxygen, aerobic and anaerobic. Humans, flies, worms, and plants are all examples of aerobic organisms. Microbiology can also be classified as aerobic or anaerobic; mychorrizal fungi and trichoderma are two examples of aerobic micro-organisms.
Anaerobic biology is the organic gardener's worst enemy (minus bokashi), surpassed only by salts. Anaerobic bacteria exist only in spaces that are free of oxygen and full of nutrition; these organisms are the ones that make trash dumps smell like trash dumps. Think about old food (bananas, apples, chicken) wrapped in plastic, left in the sun. As far as salts, we're talking about chemical salts; not just table salt. Any form of nutrition that is not organic will qualify as a "salt". Think about that chicken again, this time cover it in table salt before you throw it out. The moisture will be extracted, leaving a parched dry chicken and salmonella sauce at the bottom of the trash bag.
So this raises the question: how do nute companies bottle organic liquid nutrition and preserve the aerobic activity?
One answer from two perspectives: they don't.
1. They serve the public with expired microbiology that long since bottling has gone anaerobic.
2. The "nutrition" is stabilized with chemical salts and the microbiology is decimated.
There are a few options available to the organic gardener who already owns bottled organic nutes.
The best way to handle organic bottled nutes is to use them to make AACT. If the biology has gone bad, the oxygenated water will remove anaerobic activity and at least provide a healthy environment for possible, though unlikely, aerobic bacteria. If the nutrition is stabilized with salts, the likelihood of restoring a healthy aerobic food web is very small. Use these in AACT to remove any anaerobic activity and get at least one demon off your back. Finally is my personal favorite; throw them out and get dry nutes. These make high quality teas and can be applied directly to the soil as a nutrient mix or topdressing.
I'm not bashing GO products - Alaskan Ancient Forest Humus, for example, is one of the best products on the organic herbiculture market. It's loaded with a diverse microbiology and its woody contents support heavy mychorrizal growth. Myco cakes made of this stuff look like big flat cottonballs when they're all finished. I have used this in my garden for some time and will continue to do so as long as it's available, provided I don't get better at vermicomposting.
When you boil it all down; if the GO line is used to make AACT, the plants will stand a much better chance at being able to process what they're fed.
Hope this helps.
