what P-K % would be safe for flowering booster AACT with Super soil?

Bargar

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Hey folks, I will be feeding my babies some compost tea to my flowering ladies about the time most folks use a PK booster (with synthetics). I was wanting to know what would be a safe P and K value would be if I added guano's to that batch of tea, to give my babies a slight boost when they need it most. I know Super soil only "requires" water, but I think a 1 time PK boost when the plants need it most, may increase my harvest's weight.

So what would be a good ratio of N P K to feed them? I was thinking maybe a 1-3-3 to keep it low so it does not burn the plants, but I would really like some opinions on what a "SAFE" value would be to use.

Locally I could not find roots organics, so I used pro-mix as my base for Super soil. Because of that fact, I feel it should be safe to add some P-K boosting guano's to the tea in the 3rd or 4th week of flowering (When the plants are at the stage that I would usually use a PK booster with hydro) to help the buds fill in. If I am wrong let me know, and I will just skip the guano's, but again I think it would be safe because the pro-mix has less nutrients than the Roots organic soil.
 

venom21

Active Member
dont know exactly. aact is mostly to get your beneficial bacteria and fungal count up. your best bet is to get some sort of fungal tea going. hotsauce posted a recipe for his tea in i think the supersoil results thread. like 3 pages or so from the end. he was lakcing in either P or K and gave them some tea and said they responded beautifully
 

Bargar

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I looked in the first 10 pages and could not find what you were referencing. Also I am aware of the main purpose of compost tea. I was hoping someone who uses super soil had fed their plants with a AACT, that had a boost of P and K guano's. I guess I will just have to use trial and error starting low and working my way up with the same strain.... I'll post back here in a couple years after I do trials with it i guess, since my plant count is very low and it will take me a while to figure this out on my own.

Thanks for trying to help :)
 

Senseimilla

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Easy way to find out... make a tea with small amounts and work your way up to see what your plants will tolerate :) I find my plants are able to take nutes on top of super soil, which makes me wonder if I added enough when I made it :) These plants have also been very hungry feeders, so they may just be willing to take all the nutes I give'm (Apollo 13).
 

venom21

Active Member
like i said few pages from the end of the thread



  • Flowering nute tea mix:
    2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano
    2/3 cup Earth Worm Castings
    2/3 cup High P Guano (Indonesian or Jamaican)
    5 tsp. Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract
    (That makes the "dry mix". You can make all you want and save it to use later.)
    Mix with water @ 2 cups of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
    To that 5 gallons of tea add:
    5 tbs. Liquid Karma
    5 tbs. Black Strap Molasses
    Use it to water with EVERY watering.

    NOT MY MIX but i added my own little twist since i didnt have maxicrop​



 

Bargar

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Yeah, I'm going to start out really low this run, and increase it each run on clones from the same mother, but with my set up it will be a one time feeding per each run, just to boost the PK levels when the plant is at the stage where I would use a PK booster for Coco/DWC. My goal with the super soil was to make my next few runs super easy and it's worked so far! I am pretty sure I could just keep giving them water without any problems arising, but that's just TOO easy. Heck, I have treated about 80% of my yard with AACT since I started this grow because my plants need so little attention. I really want to be able to brew a tea for the window of time when the PK boosters are usually added in other methods. I will put my trials in my journal, and post back here when I have found the limit the plants can take.

Unless someone has already done this and could enlighten me on what was successful for them.
 

Senseimilla

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Another way to go would be to use multiple clones of the same strain and age and give them different levels - you would find the optimal solution very quickly that way. Wish I had the space for it :) No one can give you an exact answer -- it depends on your strain, lights, age, etc... in other words it just depends on what the plants need and you're gonna have to expiriment.
 

Bargar

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Oh my, I misread your post venom and thought it said in the first few pages not the last few! Thank you for your assistance, I'm stoned and my reading comprehension is pretty bad when I'm baked lol.

Another way to go would be to use multiple clones of the same strain and age and give them different levels - you would find the optimal solution very quickly that way. Wish I had the space for it
Hehe I wish I had the space to do that too, but with what I am working with I think 4 plants would be the most I could run :( But I really like this LSD I am running so I will be experimenting each run :)
 

Senseimilla

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When I find a cutting I want to really perfect working with, I may run a small SOG flowering straight from cuttings. That way you could use smaller pots, many more plants in a small space.
 

Bargar

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My first run I did 8 plants in a 2x4 with decent results, after that I did a 6 plant scrog with better results, and after that I did a 2 plant scrog with even better results! I dunno if im just that n00b of a grower, but I seem to do better with less plants. Since I have 2 2x4 areas I figure that 2 per room is my magic number. I am abandoning the screen this run and going with straight LST, since I have all this extra time on my hands with the super soil =P Also even though the state says it is OK to grow plants, any federal officer could still take a state legal grower to jail, and if that were to happen, lower plant count = less time in jail!
 

mr2kuhl

Member
I used to use subcool's super soil with roots but I used the Ocean Forest/Light Warrior mix this time and have had better yielding results. In each case I used the Emerald Triangle line (Snow Storm Ultra, Gravity, Crystal Burst, and Purple Maxx) to use as a booster and have not had many problems. With the Ocean Forest Mix it pushes the plants to the max when using the Emerald Triangle Line but with the Roots mix there was not an issue. I have not tried the teas with SS since a buddy did this and it burned his whole flower room. I have also used Ginormous through the entire flower with no side effects also in conjunction with Kool Bloom the last few weeks. It seems the Roots mix really lets you add whatever you want as long as it is not killing the Beneficial Bacteria. Also if you watch subcools youtube videos he does not add JUST WATER (a load of bull). I started laughing when I saw what he was using....(Bud Candy and some liquid Humic Acid). Super soil is not WATER ONLY, Super soil is WATER ONLY if you are a lazy bastard and do not want to know the science behind growing. BTW, as a note to Subcool, you are a Growing Genius, thank you for the seeds and the soil.
 

NoPOThere

Member
Hahaha on that note you should listen to what he says not what he's put in a video. He says that he uses some nutes if there is not enough left in the soil when he runs heavy feeding plants if there is alot of time left in the flowering cycle.
 

trichmasta

Active Member
I use humboldt bloom and soluble seaweed for my bloom boost and as additions to my flower brew with excellent success!! I'm not in super soil, but these veganic boosts have brought me and my ladies bliss!
 
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