One plant of 10 being stressed in controlled various ways to help me better recognize problems. (This unfortunate one has only had roughly 8.0 pH water straight from the tap.)
One plant of 10 being stressed in controlled various ways to help me better recognize problems. (This unfortunate one has only had roughly 8.0 pH water straight from the tap.)
There are 10 female seeds started in 1 gallon pots with most being tortured in various ways up til this week.
Three were germinated in 50% manure and 50% promix hp blends.
-Sheep manure
-Cattle manure
-Pet rabbit manure (some old and partly broken down, some as straight from litter box with alfalfa litter as mulching later)
Three were given a nicer treatment in KIS organic living soil and a moderately dense cover crop.
-Red Clover
-Alfalfa
-Sweet Orchard Grass ***edit this doesnt sprout and is replaced with a clover and alfalfa later.
Three were started in Promix HP with 20% worm castings and given only tap water at different pH levels.
-8.0ish (Straight tap water with no standing)
-7.0
-Usually an unmeasured splash of pH down into 7.0 water but tested once to 6.3 and again at 5.4 and on the third watering 6.8.
The final plant was given my old habits treatment.
25% Recycled potting soils (ProMix HP and compost equally mixed otherwise)
All manures and mixed together in roughly equal parts; 20%
Worm castings; 20%
5% Biochar
5% Old roots ripped up
20% Rice Hulls
5% Pumice
With sprinklings of; Glacial rock dust, insect frass, bokashi bran, dolemite lime, oyster shell dust, gaia green organic 4-4-4 fertilizer, sand from the rabbits dig box (with urine content as well), powdered aloe vera, cinnamon and some ash and charred bits from toking. Altogether likely taking a sizeable percentage but this is lazy math for a lazy gardener...