You gotta start with the money part then you know she’s at least listening for a min before saying before no or killing you
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Hey hey, check this lacto ferment batch, I posted it in a different ferment stream, but this seams more relevant. Prickly pears, whole organic bananas, comfrey, stinging nettle, and powdered coconut cream, homemade lacto, water. Almost 14 gallons worth.
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That looks good enough to eat! (OK, maybe not the nettles).
I want to do a neem seed (slow release N, azidiractin), beet root (High P, sugars and humic-like substances), horse tail (silica) and knotweed (cytokinins, SAR against powdery mildew) ferment for the biostimulants and NPK.
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I still have prickly pear in my fingers so maybe not eat that but it smells like a smoothy and that color is slightly more vibrant than beets, I should have added horsetail! Damn, there’s so much by the creek. My brilliant friend Kaitlyn turned me on to ferments, she grows with ferments and KNF tek exclusively and her boyfriend doesn’t, everything else is the same IPM wise and the same strains. Her outdoor looks like indoor, his looks like outdoor. I attribute this to the level of care AND the fresh plant food. Nothing wants to eat factory precessed food instead of momma’s home cooking. I got to get her on this website, she’d be a wellspring of knowledge. MoM material for sure
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I handle fungus with local soil microbes, super easy, just keep a patch of the forest floor moist and put that dirt in the tea bag. Can you say streptomyces?
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Necroposting again. Here’s a Vitazyme clone for all your alfalfa triacontanol needs-
2:1 RO water to alfalfa. Boil until maximum solubility (it won’t hurt the contained biostimulants). Adjust pH to 3-4 with ascorbic acid. 1 tablespoon per gallon 3-4x a season.
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I wrote up a DIY nutrient lineup for a customer who is trying to save some money on his shoestring grow.
A/B Solution- 1 gallon (250x dilution)
Part A
900 grams Jacks/Masterblend
300 grams Epsom salt
1.5 grams sodium benzoate to prevent nasties
Part B
600 grams Calcium Nitrate (Up to 800g in sealed rooms or direct sun)
Use at 10mg/gallon for soil, 15mg/gallon hydroponics
Potassium silicate
Adjust 850ml H2O to pH 12
Add 145g potassium silicate
Top up to 1L
Use at 5ml per gallon
Monosilicic acid
This works on a small scale, but doesn’t scale past 425ml listed in the post easily.
Use at 2ml per gallon for 40 ppm Si
Fulvic acid
AGT-50 Fulvic Mineral Complex
1ml per gallon drench and foliar every feed, foliar and flush
IPM for bugs and mold (flower friendly!)
1L 200 proof ethanol
500 grams knotweed root
Let soak 1 month or use ultrasonic extraction. Use at 1-2ml per gallon
If you pick up 10:1 knotweed extract, the solubility is 50mg/ml. Also use at 1-2ml per gallon. For foliar, mix like normal and add 15ml Dr. Bronners, can be used in flower for bugs and mold
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If you want to make a small amount bench test of the “market leading fulvic product” with a PK Boost, let me know by DM. People that make their own fertilizer aren’t going to buy my concentrated fulvic/amino/organic acid product for large facility anyways so we might as well let you know how to make something very similar to our competitor.
It doesn’t scale to large amounts past a couple liters. AGT-50 Fulvic Mineral Complex also doesn’t have any artificial preservatives. We don’t gatekeep, because our commercial product is better, but Future is a fantastic place with more knowledge.
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