Nugbuckets Lab

Sweet, good info nugs!

for guano tea just stir it up with a stick and apply.

nugbuckets said:

alright....did my research and ordered my supplies......this is what i will be feeding my plants/bennies....(applied seperately)

Dry Top Dress(worked into top 4 inches of soil)....a mixture of.....

epsoma tomato tone 3-4-6 with bennies
High P Guano 0-8-0 with bennies and myco
EWC

my tea.....

homemade EWC
Fish Hydrolysate
kelp
comfrey
humic acid
sucanat

i am stoked to go bottle free for the first time under the sun....will let my plants tell me when to feed.....my guess is 2 top dresses in the next 5 weeks, and tea every other watering....

...the only bottle being the fish.........everything else is a solid.

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microbeman states that humic acid, while a good soil amendment. has no place in tea. and even slows down microbial reproduction.

edit: why the sucanat over pure molasses?

kushking42 said:

microbeman states that humic acid, while a good soil amendment. has no place in tea. and even slows down microbial reproduction.

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cool thanks.....adjustment made.

it seems to me that humic acid is a readily available substance, and doesn't need to be broken down. it can just be mixed in or applied since it is a product of composting/decomposition. i can't comment on whether or not it inhibits bacterial growth. i can't see it helping tho, as it's not really a food source.

I usually recommend brewing a balanced ACT whether in vegetative or flower/fruit stage. The microorganisms needed by the soil/plant at the time should remain active and others will seek dormancy.

Molasses will feed both bacteria/archaea and fungi but fish hydrolysate is slightly better for fungal foodstock from my observations. Both of them feed both microbe groups.

The reasons one may wish to make a fungal dominant ACT is probably for disease suppression or for research if you believe [like I hypothesize] that there are varieties of dark septate endophytes extracted and grown in ACT if present in [vermi]compost which are a different type of mycorrhizal fungi.

The reason I do not advocate the use of humic acid in ACT is because both CT Guy and myself ran tests together and independently and observed that in a liquid, humic acid fed diddley squat..nada..nothing.

We were motivated to do this test because CT Guy added humic acid to one of my brews and I was startled to see poor results, when I was trying to show off my brewer to him.

This is not the be all and end all. It is just what I recommend and I am open to other microspocists' input.

This does not change that humic acid is a valuable soil amaendment.

I never put anything in at the end nor partway through the brew...ever..well except recently a tiny bit of oil to control foam.

So, I was reading in this other thread on this forum that cannabis doesn't like ecto mych's I'm not really sure if this is true or not, but there was a lot of detail in the report. I usually use an endo and ecto mych powder, tbh, I've had improved results with adding it to not just soil but also water when I was doing DWC. has anyone ever heard about ecto mych's being bad/counterproductive for cannabis?

psillysimon said:

So, I was reading in this other thread on this forum that cannabis doesn't like ecto mych's I'm not really sure if this is true or not, but there was a lot of detail in the report. I usually use an endo and ecto mych powder, tbh, I've had improved results with adding it to not just soil but also water when I was doing DWC. has anyone ever heard about ecto mych's being bad/counterproductive for cannabis?

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the botanicare rep told me that once. i buy 20# bags of ultra fine endo from down to earth. they also carry a product with ecto in it but i havent tried it.

So I topped for 4 and I took clones and I anchored down the 2 top growths. Thing is I kinda broke one of the growing tops off @ the base. Not all the way off I would say half way. I stood it back up and taped it down. Will it repair itself? Thanks for the advice in advance!

The Outdoor Brazilian......

Wappa has been flowering for 10 days, so i thought i would give her her wax job.......my theory being...i want 100% of the root mass feeding only 70% of the above ground growth, i also want to limit my popcorn bud, and grow fat-ass colas....i believe, in my 20 gal. smarties....this is the way to go....this is where the canopy ring shines, the whole canopy can be shaped and secured in a few minutes with soft ties, and a few flicks of the wrist....you can see she still has a wonderful spacious, well supported canopy left to grow some big donkey dicks......she also was top-dressed with nutes, and then top dressed with super soil on top of that to fill her smartie back up that settled in the last month....she is primed, and ready to fucking explode......and i get to drink some juice!...how bout that!.....

Incredible! You are truely an inspiration to me man! I love this hobby that we share and you inspire me to be even better @ it. Thanks again for any and all input you have given to me and my grow. You're the man!

Random Happenings.....

....new batch of Super Soil......
...beautiful Main-Lined Qrazy Train almost ready for her trim.....
...and good foam after 10 hours with my new perculator......(i know KK42...foam don't matter ...but wanted to see my new perk system make some....kind of like not seeing a Myco web in your Super Soil..you know its in there, but is nice to actually see it......

everything is lookin great brother! love the canopy ring and spreading out those ladies evenly. you employ simply, no none-sense techniques that work. i am regretting not going all the way and using the rings. next time....

anyways, love the new percolator. i am gonna be flipping the switch soon and flowering out my first mainlined plants!

That tea is looking mighty tasty. As always. you are killing it and keep up the good work!

Sweet dude! Do you mix 1/4 or 1/2 batches of SS?

Shwagbag said:

Sweet dude! Do you mix 1/4 or 1/2 batches of SS?

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thats a full batch....sometimes i do double batches.

full batch: .5 yard, double batch: full yard

kushking42 said:

full batch: .5 yard, double batch: full yard

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duh....i never thought of it that way...cool

right!? so now u can equate it to super soil, if someone says add 10#s gypsum per yard or 20# of cal phos per yard

edit: did a light bulb just go on @ the Nugs lab?