that does sound super easy to make. i just don't know enough about the whole process and what i need to be looking for. this is my first venture into the organic world. baby steps...lol. after i get some more knowledge under my belt then i'm gonna maybe look into making my own. thanks for the tips.
RUI is more about reading the threads than asking questions and having gurus bless you with the dankest paragraph ever. Plus every organic gardener has our own style and preferences. Some 'ganic snobs probably just laughed reading about putting synth nutes on soil/coco in the first place. LOL! (synth degrades your mix the more you put in)
Very well put. Capitalize is the key word. All AACT inputs are cheap and readily available even if you don't produce these inputs yourself in your own hippy utopia. I live in the concrete desert and still make dank teas when its 110 outside. Talk about saving money on nutes! Make your OWN AACT so that YOU can be the one capitalizing on your gardening life style. Get all the ingredients local and let babylon bet on futures forecasting while you actually PRODUCE for your family in reality.
If you have time to smoke weed and enjoy being cannablissed then you have time to throw compost and EWC in a sock, a few feed liquids into a bucket of non-chlorinated water, and fire up an air pump. Voila, home-made organic "nutrient"! Peace and happy brews with good head!
thanks for the great input. i am checking out threads now. just like any learning process though it takes time and you have to weed out the good info from the bad.
Yeah, AACT is the new thing the industry is trying to sell us as a "kit". Personally I wouldn't buy the kit, I'd just read all the tea threads here. After a good read you will confidently make your own AACT for a fraction of the cost of 'activator' and such. The main thing you need is a strong air pump and a cleanable diffuser. Teas work better with organic inputs but will still help out that synth soil ab, its just coming at the roots with both chelated instant absorb junk food and the food web. Its definitely not the same as living organic soil gardenig, and the web will not be fully functional as the synth will interfere with the microbial relationship to the root and its exudates.
RUI is more about reading the threads than asking questions and having gurus bless you with the dankest paragraph ever. Plus every organic gardener has our own style and preferences. Some 'ganic snobs probably just laughed reading about putting synth nutes on soil/coco in the first place. LOL! (synth degrades your mix the more you put in)
Very well put. Capitalize is the key word. All AACT inputs are cheap and readily available even if you don't produce these inputs yourself in your own hippy utopia. I live in the concrete desert and still make dank teas when its 110 outside. Talk about saving money on nutes! Make your OWN AACT so that YOU can be the one capitalizing on your gardening life style. Get all the ingredients local and let babylon bet on futures forecasting while you actually PRODUCE for your family in reality.
If you have time to smoke weed and enjoy being cannablissed then you have time to throw compost and EWC in a sock, a few feed liquids into a bucket of non-chlorinated water, and fire up an air pump. Voila, home-made organic "nutrient"! Peace and happy brews with good head!
Actually, you should never mix the two unless you have no other option. They function in totally different ways. In true organic gardening (soil growing) it's all about the life in the soil. Synthetic nutrients kill of healthy microbe populations in your soil. If you're going organic, you should focus on building a living soil, and let that feed your plants. There's a reason that commercial farmers have to constantly re-apply heavy petrol based "fertilizers" every year, it strips the soil of it's natural ability to regenerate itself (there are many other variables, but I'm not getting into it all)...
how is that though (not trying to be a dick) but the 2 large growers that i know both use a mixture of organic and synthetic nutes.. plus i have seen many other members talk about using both together. i'm no expert on the subject of organics and i'm just getting my feet wet but the experts that i go to for the bulk of my advice are the ones who helped me come up with this formula and they grow the healthiest looking plants of anyone i know or have seen on this site. isn't it tru that there are a ton of opinions on the matter and no one is 100% correct?
yup There's a lot of growers that alternate between feedings, like: synth. feed - organic tea - synth feed - organic tea etc., plants look great.
(i don't use blood meal, and very little bone meal though, so that's my excuse i guess lol, oh and i reuse my soil and reammend, so yeah, that's my other excuse)
It just depends on how you want to grow... If you want to grow true organic meds with the least hassle possible, I'd choose a true living organic soil. With that, you don't want to be dumping in synthetic nutrients that build up a residue of salts (nutrient salts, but salts nonetheless) which wreak havoc on the microbe population. In a living organic soil, the microbes do all of the work of feeding the plant. When you start applying synthetic nutrients, you're really limiting the effect the soil life has on the plants nutrient delivery. You end up "chasing", that is, you have to keep re-applying the "chem" nutrients because the soil life can no longer adequately feed the plant.
i agree. been using organic soils and alaska humisoil teas with synthetic nutes for a while. absolutely love the results. plenty of guys i know are doing the same thing with other recipes and nutes. gotta do what works for you.there's a shit ton of different ways to get the same results
Also, for example, everyone says to cook your soil for weeks or months, well i don't cook my soil, i mix a ton of amendments in it and at most it gets to sit for one week, sometimes i transplant the day of, plants always look bitchen' and healthy and happy
That's really funny. I equate that to demanding attention of room full of French head chefs if they have ever heard of Safeway brand croutons. Last thing a French does is BUY croutons.Starting to doubt the validity of this "Organics" section. Has no one really ever heard of this stuff? I may have to quit RIU if no one responds. Could be a sign of the lack of actual knowledge here.