Pest in pro mix
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Hollatchaboy
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If you're going to do dry amendments, you won't need bottled nutes.
Hollatchaboy
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If you wanna do bottled nutes, then no dry amendments, wait till your soil is almost depleted of nutrients, then start adding the bottled nute at the low end of dose. No straw needed for mulch then.
Hollatchaboy
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By water soluble, I mean anything that the plant can immediately take up. Dry amendments need time to be broken down by microbes. Some of it though will be immediately available, but not much. The main idea behind a compost tea, is to add microbes to the soil to start breaking down organic material. The more microbiology, the better.
With bottled nutes, you just add the nutes to water, ph, and water in. Nutes are readily available.
Hollatchaboy
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Lol, it's all good.
xox
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i've been using pro-mix for 7 or 8 years now no bugs should ever show up in the bags the mix is peat and its pasteurized. should promptly return all the garbage back to the garden center it came from it obviously was stored improperly before you purchased it. id be furious if i brought that shit inside my garden. better yet should shoot off and email to pro-mix's support
Humble_Budlings
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I know I'm responding to this part of the thread way way too late, but this Down to Earth rose mix is my favorite blended bag for cannabis, and if I've ever got anyone asking me what to use but they don't want to blend their own, I recommend they use this and add nitro guano 1:5 by mass. Worm castings and/or living compost as well, but that's a given.
The doctor earth "flower girl" is a similar formulation for people in areas that can't get down to earth products.
Question about recharge though. Do I mix enough to do a complete watering or just apply a few cups?
Southernontariogrower
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Try adding some D E to your mix, that gets rid of the bad bugs imo. Mites, thrips and the extra silica is good for plants. Plus its cheap and youll use it and buy more.
It's called just D E?
Humble_Budlings
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Diatomaceous earth, aka DE.
This is what I was going to use as a top dressing. I know it's a dry ammendment but the box calls for 1-2 tbsp 2x a month for potted plants. So there will be enough ready nutrients available for a top dressing I'm assuming?
Humble_Budlings
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Actually no, it needs to break down and compost. It will do something, but most of the food will just sit there on top. Covering with a deep mulch layer will increase effectiveness by allowing composting and bringing the roots closer to the surface. But really I don't think you will get everything you need from that and will have to fall back on soluable fertilizers.
Ok. I know that was probably already answered somewhere on here but being new i just need to clarify. I looked up flower girl and it seems like some good shit. I'll take that route
Hollatchaboy
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Depends.... are you going the bottled nute route or the dry amendment? Soil using bottled nutes aren't dependent on microbes to break down organic matter.