A couple of things that have really helped me im my persuit of the perfect smoke.
I wholly recommend seaweed in all capacities, I use it in my compost, i use it as a soil drench, and as a foliar feed during the veg period.
Living near the sea, I have an abundance of Kelp, which I am sure you guys know already, is superb for the growing of weed.
Here are a couple of things that i do to get good results. From the off;
When germinating I use a 1/20th solution of pure kelp in water, this keeps my germination 5 up there, bout 90/95% i'd say.Thats between paper towels of course.
For sprouts i use the same solution, to keep the soil moist.
For veg I use a kelp solution for foliar feed, this help keep nasties away, gives an abundance of minerals, it also helps to unlock the nutrients and sugars stored in the leaves, thus aiding photosynthesis greatly. And for a soil drench I make a kelp and tealeaf tea, 1 tblsp used tea, for nitrogen and manganese, kelp for calcuim, magnesium and a whole host of other wonders, in a gallon of water, this process consistently make excellent root balls quite quickly. It makes the leaves lovely and green too.
For flowering I use 1 teacup kelp, and 1/2 teacup of milk in a drench solution, you need to keep the milk content down for smells. But the advantages of the milk are abundant when in flowering, the calcium content makes for bit healthy buds, with good structure. I water the girls with this right up to 2 weeks before harvest, then i just do plain water (24hrs old room temp) reducing the quantity gradually over the last flower period, so firm up the buds and gleen a little more THC as the plants consume all their reserves, my leaves often dry up, but never wilt.
This is all supplenental to A bit of biobiz for the balance of the nutrients in the plant.
The kelp solution for the foliar feed is really simple, I make it in 1L concentrates. 1L Bucket half filled with beach kelp, washed so the salt is cleaned away, fill with water and leave for up to 3 months with a lid, stirring once per week. at the end you have a slimy thick solution which is more or less 100% unadulterated kelp. 1L makes 20L of foliar feed.
This is by no means new information, however as I am always looking to improve my organic indoor grow, I like to see what others do with home made stuff, and what results they get.
here's hoping this gets another good thread going. And if this helps anyone, thats what its all about.
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