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These girls are doing great! The pots in particular have made a difference this round. I upgraded from cheap off-brand fabric pots to legit Root Pouches. The biggest difference has been in water retention, I only watered once this week and the soil is still moist.
This week they were LSTed finally, they responded well to this. I also gave them a SST soil drench using ground malted rye. 1/8 cup per gallon of water, left it swirl around 4 hours, added 1/4 teaspoon Ful-Humix, and then watered in.
I realized I never put the soil mix. For these two the soils are different, one had grown one autoflower each from my previous grow Herbs with my Herb, the other is a fresh mix. I reamended and mixed the following in a bigger pot. I was a little short on some of these but I'll too dress them later when I can get to the garden store again, but these are ratios I was shooting for.
Per cubic foot of soil:
1/4 Cup Neem Seed Meal
1/4 Cup Kelp Meal
1/4 Cup Crab Meal
1/2 Cup Alfalfa Meal
1/4 Cup Marine Cuisine
1/8 Cup Bio-Live
1/4 Cup Acid Mix
1/4 Cup Karanja Pellets
1/2 Cup Ground Malted Barley
1/2 Cup Whole Malted Barley
Minerals were doubled for new soil:
1/8 Cup Cal-Phos
1/2 Cup Oyster Shell Flour
1 Cup Basalt
1/2 Gypsum
I have not seen many others using KNF techniques, and you’re doing the full program while I’m only using some parts of it. It seems to work great though, and I’m very happy with it. Cheers.
@Rasjavi420, I like KNF but I think I was shorting the plants for N so I’ve been supplementing with Megacrop to get rid of the yellow tinge. Megacrop is very good and organic, but I’m sure KNF is preferred and I’ll be doing this again. I have not checked out JMS but I will now. I think my soil was a bit microbe poor initially and two rounds of compost tea helped a lot. Anyway, fun stuff.
@Northern_Ent, yeah man, I actually started following you cause you were doing KNF, your right there's very few of us lol. I also use fish hydrolysate instead of FAA, smells like ocean shit.
OHN was a pain in the ass to make but worth it. Works as a pest repellent and I feel comfortable that my soil can handle pathogens or anything bad that makes its way into the soil. And now I have a gallon of it lol. IMO seems hard but like you I make it up with compost tea and Jadam Microbe Solution (you try JMS yet?)
It's a bit time consuming, so next run I'm thinking of doing a side by side KNF vs Build-a-Soil way to see to see which I keep doing.
@Rasjavi420, I’ve found one other person here using KNF. Growdiaries reveals their commercial bias with things like this. You can search for whatever obscure cannabis specific nutrient that people might buy but you can’t search for molasses or KNF techniques. Oh well, it’s still a great site.
I’m using LAB, FPJs and FFJ but not going all in and using IMO or OHN or the fish fermentation (FAA). I figure regular fish fertilizer is much the same as FAA and Fish fertilizer is gross enough even without having to make it yourself.
Overall I think KNF is totally worth it except for maybe a single plant. It’s not more work necessarily you just need to plan ahead. My buds certainly look good so far. 😎. Cheers and good luck.