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Aloha friends and thumbs! I am back with my shopping list for mixing compost teas for my students, this should help most of my students to get the correct products to mix your own.

Digital Ph meters- eBay or any hydro store in Hawaii but on Oahu Kahala Hydroponics has they cheapest at around $50 with a warranty and is a good meter as it is able to change out electrode. But online is definitely cheaper.

Ohana greenhouse:

Calibration solutions- 7.0&4.01
Mad farmer get down

Mad farmer oxygenator
Earthworm castings (more expensive here but come in 50lb bags)
Variety box guano- mex,, Jamaican, Indonesian
Alfalfa meal
Seaplex
Hydro organics myccorhyzea

Waikiki worms:

Earthworm castings( expensive but good)
Granulated Humic acid
Also has alfalfa meal

Whole foods
Blackstrap molasses

New Age Agriculture:

Earth worm castings ( they carry 30lb and smaller bags when available, and much cheaper.

Aloha friends and thumbs I am back again letting you know that the folks down at Ohana Greenhouse are now offering us growers some new things. Not only are they now carrying a much more affordable organic ingredient line Dr. Earth which now includes alfalfa meal and they got 25lb bags Finally. This will be a big help when building and amending your soil mixes, also they are now offering a new discount card for those returning customers. So ask for your card next time your in one of their locations, 5% off all cash purchases and 2% off card purchases

Ps. Roots organic has changed their 707 mix now to include livestock manure so be careful with small plants!

Aloha friends and thumbs I am back to give you a secret ferment recipe I mix for my blooming phase plant. In layering my soils in transplant I am able to boost my bloom. Simple an easy I will be fermenting bananas, if you do your own research one will find burying bananas in your soil will boost flowering( potassium), many champion flower growers use this method. I take it another step, we always heard about the old guys talking about feeding plants fruit juice, well this kinda the same too but organically and we make a soil out of our ferment. So here it is:

Banana Soil:

1gallon container
2 bunches bananas or about a pound of peels
**1apple, 1over ripe papaya( these are optional)
1 bottle gin
3 cups brown sugar
30 lbs earthworm castings

Procedure:
1. Cut and put all fruit in a large container
2. Add brown sugar and stir until completely coated
3. Add 6oz gin
4. Cover with paper towel and rubberband
5. Let stand for 5days and stir after stir add one cup gin
6. Let stand 14 days
7. Add ferment to 30 lbs EWC and mix well let stand 5-7 days
8. Layer into transplant so as the roots grow into it, when they do wow
*** I also use this in sexing my seed plants in a 24 hr light cycle**

Aloha friends and thumbs I am back with another review and recipe for using canadian fertilizer, Advanced Nutrients. Advanced Nutrient can be confusing if your not ready for it, but the do make it easier on a first time grower with an online nutrient calculator on their www.advancednutrient.com which breaks down your mixing needs very precisely. With the addition to the local growing stores New Age Agriculture has opened in the Pearl City area, which specializes in Advanced Nutrient Basic 2 part Sensi lines and their higher end line Conissuer and all their additives. Also now Kahala Hydro is carrying Advanced line of nutrients. I personally only use the Sensigrow 2 part and Sensibloom 2 part, along with my compost teas.

** as of late I have gone back to CES 6 part for my veg fertilizer with teas**

As for smart nutrients I like Advanced, but personally I would never spend on all their additives when I make teas. Nor would I spend on conissuer line no matter what some says it supposed to do. I have had the products some good and some just as bad as my worst grow done with Bigfoot. The best line I have sampled from conissuer was a master kush, tasted just the same as my pure organic compost tea feeding, and I yielded more or less about the same. To each his own, someone once said. With that do realize that advanced 2 parts are very reasonably priced and will work good with manure based soil mixes, bought from walmart, homedepot or lowes.

Aloha friends back again with a little help. There are machines now that help do all the work and ultimately the price is worth it cause harvests and trimming can be a long drawn out process. This what I did for $80 and some imagination without over spending $500 to $2,000.

Aloha friends I am back to give advise on purchasing seeds or genetic online. With the option now of buying good seeds online one must know who are the reputable seed banks. First thing is check if you are dealing with a seed bank that ships to the US, then it doesn’t hurt to look at a few review sites. As for me I have had a few horror stories in ordering seeds, but it is usually cause my favorites are not selling the strain I would like. But easy here is my top 5 online seed banks or portals worth using.

1. Attitude seeds
2. Nirvana seeds
3. Amsterdam marijuana seed bank
4. Greenhouse seeds
5. Sensi seeds

rice water EM

Aloha thumbs and friends. I am back to give one of my biggest secrets away, it is my own homemade root inoculate or EM™/BAM(beneficial active microorganism) made with rice water, milk and sugar. There are many shelf bought version for ridiculous pricing, for those with the little know how to make ones own. House & Garden makes Root Accelerator,Hygrozyme, Sensizyme, Advanced Nutrients Voodoo Juice are some of the high priced products that my own home culture works as well as or even in some cases has even worked better. I know many growers that would not even think of culturing their own or even would have the know how to, but I offer you my knowledge for your own frugal organic gardening purposes. Not to mention how I have talked about recycling and composting with worms, now I will introduce you to the Japanese form of Bokashi Composting or fermenting and how to make your own home made cheap alternative Bokashi Buckets and Bokashi mix.

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Aloha Friends! Due to so many request from you I am going to post some of my favorite organic compost tea recipes. The cost on making a compost tea is really good and if you have your own worm bins cost gets even better due to recycling, not to mention fresh vermicast is the best living compost. I have a few good recipes: (mix in order to create beneficial environment for myccorhyzea)

Grow Tea: 5 gallon

1/2-1 cup Vermicast or earth worm castings
2 ml 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide
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Definition from wkipedia:

A mycorrhiza (Gk.,: fungus roots[1], pl mycorrhizae, mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic (generally mutualistic, but occasionally weakly pathogenic) association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant.[2]

In a mycorrhizal association, the fungus colonizes the host plants’ roots, either intracellularly as in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), or extracellularly as in ectomycorrhizal fungi. They are an important component of soil life and soil chemistry.

Soil & Organics: I use Mycorhizae in my Hum-tea creating a rooting juice much like Root Accelerator or Hygrozyme for my soil, Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »

LED yes or no? Are LED panels worth it? Well as technology moves forward we find ourselves with a question that needs to be answered, has manufacturers found a way to make LED UFO panels equivalent to HID lighting, as for my experiments I can now answer some of those questions.

I have been growing indoors under HID lighting for many years, in so dealing with high electric bills and continually having to monitor my temperatures in my grow areas. Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »