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you can mix in a fashion that it's no problem to plant in to that fresh mix. and, it can be a "strong" enough mix to carry plants for a while as water only. it's beneficial to have a living, aged component as good compost/EWC or some recycled mix. essentially, as a goal, nutrient cycling...

once i introduced predatory mites, i became reluctant to use essential oils or doc bronners sprays for fear of harming the beneficials. it's worked out great. i'm able to spray exclusively to foliar feed now so, it's not tricky to balance scheduling IPM w/ foliars. now, i see a balance...

they do kind of blurp along. that's how an airlift works at that scale. raising & lowering your output may help you find the best rate. the airlift is the most effective way to aerate your bucket but it doesn't look that way in practice. That's why you see people doing vortexes & running...

am running NL#5/haze, nigerian sunshine, velvet rush & mazar/PCK found zazen to be quite potent but, was unable to preserve it. didn't want to do well. the NL5H does do good & quite potent also. i don't find velvet rush particularly potent but, it has a dreamy fuzzy high which warrants the...

i actually do a 4 gallon brew in a 5 gallon bucket. there's 2 eco-plus comm1 {1 would be enough} i like having a bubbler stone at the bottom & the airlift {overkill?} maybe but i can sprout some barley seed, rinse them & do my SST in the bucket because there's enough oxygen the seeds will...

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general organics appears to be another case of "organic" is the brand/name & it doesn't really state that it's organic it's similar to make alfalfa or kelp {or whatever dynamic accumulator} tea these kinds of infusions really are a tea & that way, you know it's organic, you know what went in...

either make a nute tea or a compost tea not both a nute tea should be a prep of soaking say a cup of alflalfa or dandelions or comfrey or like a 1/2 cup of dry amendments like kelp or the recommendation of soluble preps like fish hydrolysate {nute teas are the organic equivalent of feeding...

ummm, idk about all that but; what are you using to find "ppm?" typically you want to know your dissolved oxygen to determine suitability of your air input but I still don;t think "ppm" readings from your finished product would be a valuable metric. also, inputs like alfalfa, kelp or, fish...

a small amount of water, followed later by a sufficient amount is a good suggestion. you do want consistent moisture throughout the soil. that seems like kind of a lot of water in that video. something like a shot {1oz like a booze shot} 1x or 2x a day per gallon is the low end of watering...

1 cup EWC is about right ~18 TBS 3.8 TBS molasses maybe {if you must} 1.5 TBS of kelp meal to your 3 gallons of water/24 hours is fine are you getting enough air in there?

sort this all out for us. what's really going on here?

i bought a couple bags of that and i like it

I would definitely encourage researching for yourself with all this stuff. It's been my own MO & there have been times I've thought about following pH and EC as well as the microscope thing. But, to some degree, I've settled for standing on the shoulders of giants. If you made observations...

i dont think PPM & pH are important metrics for ACT, best to quantify living microbial population somehow & other than that it doesn't really matter unless something is way out of whack this is 1 of the values of using vermicompost; if the worms liked it & produced some EWC from your...