Aug '24 (edited) • How to: EXTREME Plant Quality
Advanced custom tailored compost for artisan crops
Here is an advanced method of compost making that you can use for any crop or variety of plant that requires very specific nutrient requirements. A perfect example is where Cannabis transitions from vegetative stage into flowering stage in its life cycle. It goes from needing high nitrogen, low potassium all the way through to eventually needing high potassium and low nitrogen.
If you make specific compost tailored to those kind of conditions, you can make liquid feeds from that compost and not have to buy any liquid feeds. All we need to do in this case is make two compost piles, one that consists of only green nitrogen containing materials and another that consists of only potassium containing ingredients like fruit. Both of them start off with a nice inert carbon rich base like an animal manure or dry leaves, and then the nice rich organic materials, one being all nitrogen and the other being all potassium.
Using the compost to make “tea” Is very practical especially for potted plants as compost application quickly fills up space. You can also incorporate all sorts of things that you would want to be in the the end product. So if you want to put in bonemeal it’ll break that down and you’ll have water soluble phosphorus straight away. you can put in fish in smaller amounts the same with meat in smaller amounts. Pretty much if it’s organic and it can be broken down in traditional composting means, you can add it into the compost.
To make compost tea it’s as simple as putting some finished compost off your choice into a clean cotton cloth, wrapping it up and sealing it so no compost can get out and soaking it in water for an hour or so making sure to massage it and squeeze the juices out every so often. Don’t store compost teas for too long, they may go off and stink. A couple of days is fine. Compost can last for ages. Once you make tea, you create anaerobic environment that won’t support your aerobic composting microbe friends for long so use tea immediately.
Yay! you now have extremely diverse custom-made liquid nutrients that you would otherwise pay heaps of money for. All you do is just mix the ratios of one with the other, depending on the growth phase of the plant. So in vegetative stage you’ll have majority nitrogen with a little bit of the potassium added. As you’re going to pre-flour, you start getting towards 50-50, nitrogen/potassium and eventually transition into full flour, which will be a majority potassium and just a little bit of baseline nitrogen.
It’s really as simple as that. What you choose to include as your organic material is what will determine the quality of the compost. Using this technique alone, it is possible to produce absolute quality dried flowers or any other crop that requires custom, dynamic fertigation.
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Advanced custom tailored compost for artisan crops
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