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GrowGraceGrowstarted grow question 5 years ago
Is it possible to fertilize all stages of growth with household items?
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OutForReal
OutForRealanswered grow question 5 years ago
Yes it is possible ! That beeing possible is not a reason to do it ! If the reason is to do 100% by yourself then many recipes are available. If the reason is to keep it cheap then you can have everything your plants needs for less than 20$. Now 1/4 piss + 3/4 water will bring nitrogen , wood ash will bring potash, and phosphorus can be bring my milk , crushed egg shell for calcium and magnesium.
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Jwjoh
Jwjohanswered grow question 5 years ago
I understand you want an organic grow using stuff around your house, so I don't expect you to select nor agree with my answer. However, I want to make sure you get a macro view. Hopefully you'll read it over. I'm doing a fairly cheap grow right now (other than a small tent, an LED light, and a fan/charcoal filter setup with a rheostat, but that's all reusable for many years). I bought a $12 bottle of Miracle Grow 12-4-8 for the veg phase (has some other trace elements too); a $25 bottle of CaliMagic for all phases which has calcium, magnesium and some other trace elements; a bottle of pH up and a bottle of pH down to keep it in the 6.2-ish range that came as a kit for $20, and a couple $4 bottles of Dr Schultz 2-7-7 cactus food for flowering phase. I ended up splurging $95 on some stuff called Bud Blaster for week 3+ of flowering because I saw results on the other diaries and actually saw results on my plants within 24 hours (yes really), but it was totally unnecessary -- the cactus food was doing fine. So minus the expensive Bud Blaster, everything else together was about $70 -- *I've barely used any of it for growing 2 plants so far up to and almost now through the 3rd week of flowering.* I have enough for many, many grows. I'm actually thinking some of it might expire before I get through it! Some people laugh at Miracle Grow but if you get the right N-P-K ratio it does the job just fine, the plants don't care where it comes from. Cheap, easy, instant nutrients that don't have to biodegrade first. Every week I feed nutrients on Friday, then flush on Tuesday. Though I have been buying distilled water, but I ordered all the parts to build a still, just waiting on the massive teapot that's coming on the slowboat from China :D Then I can start a fire outside (I live on a farm, something we do all the time) and use it to boil the water for the still. Oh and I bought a $20 pH meter off Amazon that had a 4.5 star rating, and $12 for 800 sheets of litmus paper just to double check when I feel like it. There are also plenty of high quality organic nutrient solutions you can buy that will insta-deliver just like the ones I'm using, but they are generally much more expensive, which is why I didn't take that route.
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Philindicus
Philindicusanswered grow question 5 years ago
If you have a degree in chemistry,biology I would say go for it. Your best bet is to build a super soil for your grow. www.youtube.com/watch Then add organic teas to supplement depleted nutrients as the grow progresses. I've seen growers use everything from cow manure to chicken manure to rabbit manure bone meal,blood meal etc.. If you get it wrong you burn the plants roots. Using household items is possible but you wouldn't be unable to calculate the rate/ratio of application and absorption of the macro and micro nutrients. For example the proper ratio of Potassium to Calcium and Magnesium is 4:2:1 respectively. Too much calcium will lockout or block potassium/magnesium absorption. Magnesium is needed for the plant to complete photosynthesis not to mention cause issues with the ph of your soil. Using egg shells takes too long to take effect and break down into a form that can be used by the plant. If you created a super soil then left the pulverized/powdered egg shells for a a month in properly moistened soil it may be available to the plant. Good luck outstanding strain your growing I'll follow along it looks like an interesting grow if you go that root.
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DankGardener
DankGardeneranswered grow question 5 years ago
Coffee grounds Fertilizer for the growth phase The use of coffee grounds as a natural fertilizer has long been well known, and it is also one of the most commonly used homemade fertilizers for marijuana. The coffee grounds are acidic and promote the development of acetic bacteria in the substrate, containing about 2% nitrogen and other organic nutrients. A good way to prepare a good marijuana fertilizer is to add the coffee grounds to your compost bin or composter, or spread them and mix them with the substrate that will be in contact with the roots of your plant, but you should control the pH well as they can leave the substrate too acidic. Another way to use the coffee is to dilute the coffee grounds in a litre of water and leave the mixture to stand for 24 hours. After this time we have a good dose of fertilizer for our plant. In this case we do not use the sediment directly as fertilizer, but rather the mother waters derived from the digestion of the sediment. Wood ashes Fertilizer for the final phase of flowering Always using broadleaf woods, this is another good natural fertilizer for marijuana. We can obtain the wood ashes from a barbecue made from logs or from a chimney in which we use only wood. The result of the combustion of the wood is a substance rich in potassium and phosphorus (10% in the form of potash), so we have a mineral fertilizer suitable for the final phase of flowering, used individually or combined with some resin enhancer. One way to prepare the ash for fertilization is to collect it shortly after the wood has burned and store it in a dry place. It is best to apply it mixed with other organic substrates as it is almost exclusively a mineral residue. In addition, the ashes are very effective in preventing pests. Another way to use wood ash is as a fertilizer solution, which as with coffee grounds, is prepared by diluting the ashes in a little water, and let them rest for a few hours. And now you can water your flowering cannabis plants with the nutrient solution. Another of the most useful home fertilizers for your collection. Banana Tea Full cycle flowering fertilizer This fruit is known for being one of the natural products that provides more potassium. Potassium is a key element, which is used in all stages of cannabis plant development, and is also one of the three main macronutrients of NPK, which we can all see in common commercial fertilizers. Potassium helps the plant to assimilate sugars, starches and carbohydrates in general, which is why it is so essential for the flowering of the plant, as it helps to increase energy reserves and the construction of complex carbohydrates that give structure to leaves, stems and buds. Potassium is also essential as it is associated with the biosynthesis of terpene-related proteins, the absorption of water by the roots and the opening and closing of stomata. In addition to this essential element, banana tea also provides amino acids that can be assimilated by the plant so that we can say that it is an organic-mineral fertilizer. A good way to prepare this potassium-rich fertilizer tea is to boil 3 banana peels in 1 liter of water, adding a little sugar. Once the mixture is cold, we remove the banana peels and use the resulting liquid to water our marijuana. This tea is applied during the last six weeks of flowering. With this you will get up to 20% more fattening in your buds. You can also do it using honey, or sugar cane molasses. A good fertilizer for marijuana, no doubt one of the best. Nettle Tea Foliar fertilizer and preventive insecticide application Nettle tea (urtica urens) is more than a fertilizer, it is a product that provides active plant ingredients that repel insects such as aphids, whitefly and mites, although it can also be considered a fertilizer because of its high content of organic nitrogen and mineral components. Its application is foliar and it is very easy to prepare since we only have to follow the same steps as in the preparation of banana tea. Cook a good handful of nettles in a litre of water and use the resulting liquid (already strained) to water the plant. A piece of advice that I give you, be careful when collecting the nettles, as they can produce skin irritation when touching the plant to cut it and make the extraction or maceration. Brewer's yeast Multipurpose fertilizer Brewer's yeast has normally been promoted as an excellent food for human use, but due to its richness in minerals, amino acids and proteins it has been proposed as an excellent organic-mineral fertilizer, qualified as a good natural fertilizer for plants. And don't mistake it for baker's yeast. The yeast we are going to use is nutritional, and corresponds to the residue left by the yeast alive after fermenting with barley malt. How to make this fertilizer for marijuana plants? Very simple! The preparation that we can make to fertilize consists of a small spoonful of yeast of beer dissolved in a liter of water, we will obtain another good fertilizer, in this case for flowering of the cannabis, since it is very rich in phosphorus and potassium. Egg shells Calcium deficiency corrector fertilizer An excellent calcium corrector that we can use in our preparations with fertilizers for marijuana are the homemade fertilizers based on eggshells. This type of fertilizer is used to provide extra calcium to our marijuana plant. It is prepared by crushing six to eight eggshells in a mortar, which are then digested using a litre and a half of water with a few drops of hydrochloric acid (Salfuman) for 24 hours. Measure the pH of the resulting broth, which should be around 5.0. After this time, the remaining shells are removed and the resulting broth is filtered. We already have our calcium-rich fertilizer for our marijuana. Calcium deficiency is not very common in marijuana, as it is a very common component in undistilled or osmosed irrigation water, but keep in mind that the marijuana plant requires almost as much calcium as nitrogen, and that is why many brands of fertilizers for hydroponics incorporate it in their formulations. Mix the resulting broth with some fertilizer rich in nitrogen for the growth phase, or in phosphorus and potassium for the flowering phase, although you can use it as a calcium corrector directly as long as they take the pH into account. Animal faeces Full cycle fertilizer Although it may not seem very pleasant, animal feces are one of the most universal fertilizers for marijuana. It is a high quality organic fertilizer. To use this type of homemade fertilizer correctly for plants, you must collect faeces from already dried animals (sheep, goat, horse, rabbit, cow, etc.). Before using this type of fertilizer you must compost it for two months or more before adding it to the substrate of your garden, as the composting process kills the seeds of the weeds and transforms the nutrients into more profitable forms for the plant. It is a very complete fertilizer for marijuana in macronutrients and trace elements, one of the fertilizers for plants of general use for the whole vegetative cycle of cannabis. Lentils or bean tea Root stimulants rich in auxins Auxins represent a very important group of phytohormones that regulate plant growth and phototropism (movement of leaves and stems in search of light), causing branches to grow vertically by elongation of plant cells. The auxins have traditionally been used in gel form for root development in cuttings and seedlings, as is the case of Clonex, one of the best known products for marijuana, and although it is true that they work very well in synthetic form, we can also find them in culture broths formed by organic products such as seaweed, and teas made from seeds rich in auxins, as occurs with certain species of legumes and pulses. The teas made with these natural products are simple to make, as they are based simply on leaving the vegetables in water for a day, until they are completely hydrated. We can also heat the broth a little to help in the extraction of the nutritive compounds, then it is beaten and the resulting paste is strained. The final water, or broth, contains the nutritive extract rich in auxins, and is ready to use for rooting cuttings. Another eco-friendly homemade cannabis fertilizer at your fingertips!
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souljasam
souljasamanswered grow question 5 years ago
There are a lot of things you can use to supplement nutrients for every stage of growth. The #1 thing is to compost your food waste. Leafy greens and coffee grounds add nitrogen, egg shells for calcium, banana peels for potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium. You can compost most foods except meats and dairy because they will smell. Composting usually takes a while to break down and be ready for use. You can also make compost teas if you buy some microbes. You add microbes to water, aerate with an air pump and airstone and add stuff like banana peels to feed the microbes and give them something to break down. Youll wind up with a foamy frothy concoction that you feed your plants to boost the microbes living in the root system of your plants. One nice thing about using microbes and compost is the fact that its all organic means that things break down slowly and its harder to overfeed the plants as the microbes help regulate how much the plants take in. You can also use epsom salts if you are having a magnesium deficiency. If you were just looking for stuff that you can mix with water and feed, im not 100% sure what youd use other than epsom salt for magnesium.
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