Redbird1223
Active Member
I wanted to start a discussion with the organic crowd (veganic growers/ tea brewers/ nute makers in particular) about using your trimmings to make your own nutes.
Many beneficial plants are listed in these threads but I don't see much about marijuana being used for NPK. I don't think weed gets a huge taproot like comfrey or some others but it still has a very aggressive root system and big appetite for macro and micro nutrients, so (to me) it seems like MJ could be considered a dynamic accumulator and should be very useful once fermented. I feed MJ more nutes than anything else I grow, so it should be fairly rich or at least have a useable amount of NPK left in the plant matter, right? Actually I'm kind of surprised it's not the most common plant used for fermenting among us growers. Especially caregivers with a high plant count/perpetual harvest or outdoor growers with high biomass.
I made some a while ago in a 1 gallon juice jug, fermented for a month, and fed it to some big flower bushes in the yard but i dont know how beneficial it was. they're still alive though! haha maybe i could send a leaf sample to a lab, or a liquid sample of the brew. Is there a home kit to test NPK values in a solution? Thats what i need.
I did consider the chemical nutes angle, but then i thought anyone who uses fermented plant extracts is probably against using chemicals and also this is posted in the organic section, so that should be obvious. All these plants would be organic or vegan organically grown, then leaves/stems fermented for plant based nutrition after being trimmed or harvested.
I'm no scientist, this is just my stoner brain thinking WTF, we should feed the weed with weed, or at least incorporate it! maybe there's a reason nobody does this
please chime in and further my organic education
Many beneficial plants are listed in these threads but I don't see much about marijuana being used for NPK. I don't think weed gets a huge taproot like comfrey or some others but it still has a very aggressive root system and big appetite for macro and micro nutrients, so (to me) it seems like MJ could be considered a dynamic accumulator and should be very useful once fermented. I feed MJ more nutes than anything else I grow, so it should be fairly rich or at least have a useable amount of NPK left in the plant matter, right? Actually I'm kind of surprised it's not the most common plant used for fermenting among us growers. Especially caregivers with a high plant count/perpetual harvest or outdoor growers with high biomass.
I made some a while ago in a 1 gallon juice jug, fermented for a month, and fed it to some big flower bushes in the yard but i dont know how beneficial it was. they're still alive though! haha maybe i could send a leaf sample to a lab, or a liquid sample of the brew. Is there a home kit to test NPK values in a solution? Thats what i need.
I did consider the chemical nutes angle, but then i thought anyone who uses fermented plant extracts is probably against using chemicals and also this is posted in the organic section, so that should be obvious. All these plants would be organic or vegan organically grown, then leaves/stems fermented for plant based nutrition after being trimmed or harvested.
I'm no scientist, this is just my stoner brain thinking WTF, we should feed the weed with weed, or at least incorporate it! maybe there's a reason nobody does this
please chime in and further my organic education
