Ah cool thanks!
Yeah I'm thinking about covercrops alot myself at the mo, and do think it best to start them before the cannabis even goes in.
On the one hand, they get a better chance to establish before they get all dwarfed and shaded, on the other, they can activate the microbial life in the soil in preparation, thus allowing the cannabis to take straight off.
I'm still pondering the mix of plants best suited....
While I see this being done alot, personally I have come to the conclusion that I don't want to mix microbial tea with nutrient tea. Because if there are too many nutrients in the tea, neither goal (adding microbes, adding nutes) will be achieved:
On the one hand, the microbe population explodes to consume all those nutes, the danger of the tea going anaerobic increases accordingly (all that action in there uses up lots of oxygen!) thus also increasing the risk of anaerobic populations of microbes taking over, thus defeating the original purpose of the microbial tea, which is to add a nice active diversity of microbes that will feed the plants' increased hunger whilst in that growth phase. Flower is said to require nutes best mined by fungi - but when tea populations explode, it's going to be the bacteria, not the fungi, tipping the balance in their favor. So, wrong set of microbes...
On the other hand, the added nutes will tend to get eaten by the microbes whilst the tea is bubbling, ending up feeding those exploding populations instead of the plant who should be getting them.
So by the time the tea gets watered in, there is a reasonable cause to doubt the microbial as well as the nutritional content of the tea.
That's why personally, when I go to make a microbial tea, I'm adding less and less molasses. And I add kelp and other nutes as topdress or mix it into the soil when I start a new one.
Just my 2c.
Your plants are looking amazing!!!
