Making tea for the girls and pontificating... 
Well... now that I have the gravity drip system in place, time for making some tea. So after whacking my fruit trees with a baseball bat (makes them bear more fruit), I hurried out to the local garden center (nirvana) and set about to gather the 'spices' for my tea.
Up until now, I only fed my girls Buddha grow in a 2/3 strength mix/gallon of water (2 tsp). Now that I have the Blumat, I'm on to what I originally wanted to do. After some education regarding the appetites of this particular beast, I've prepared a simple recipe using some organic pre-mixes (Buddha Grow & Bloom) and fertilization
supplements that I often use in the normal course of my gardening.
I've done drip irrigation using treated water (tea) before with amazing results. Theoretically, rather than having dips and valleys in nutrition, the drip method I'll be employing will provide a constant stream of nutrition.
I've found teas useful in organic gardening primarily because it gives the organic ingredients a chance to become bio-active prior to introducing it to the plant. Thus maintaining an extremely lively soil. BTW, by far, SOIL is the most important ingredient in an organic grow of any kind. Like the difference between night and day.
Anyway, here are my ingredients and why I'm using them. Feedback from other orgainic practitioners is greatly welcomed. Mind you, I have NEVER grown an auto, let-alone grow and harvest indoors. This is an experiment. I'm just applying knowledge I've gained after years of communing with nature and learning how to speak plant.
Organic Enzyme, plant rescue/vigor solution.
Blood Meal (green up and leaf out)
Moo Poo liquid - (just had to add this ripe juice I swear by it as a micro-organism activator)
Buddha Grow (pre-mixed organic cannabis nute)
Buddha Bloom (pre-mixed organic cannabis nute)
Granite Flower (trace minerals the natural way)
I feel confident about everything I'm trying with one new twist, Granite Flower. It is purported by the manufacturer to impart many trace minerals into the soil, including calcium and magnesium. Again, this is a constant trace and nutrient, drip water/feed method I'm employing so unless you are growing organic, much of what I'm doing isn't applicable to you if you're using another method.
I'm trying out the granite flower two ways. First as an ingredient in my tea, letting it leach into the mix through a tied up coffee filter. Second, directly on the soil under the drip (4 plants) so that it will leach into the soil as the tea drips onto it. I mixed some in the soil of a fifth plant (one of my best) and put nothing on the sixth (another one of my best) as a control point. It'll be interesting to see what happens. Particularly after a couple of weeks, once everything has
married (mixed and combined and begun reacting). The flowering period will tell if my organic method of adding trace minerals is viable. We'll see.
I'll publish my recipe once I get back down to my gardening room and re-read the measures.
Finally, in all of this I'm taking a conservative approach. With plants of any kind, it's better to add rather than take-away. Less is more.
Time to go back down to commune with my girls and have a vape or two...:launch: Rhyce...
Check out these videos showing the concept and how I make it.
[video=youtube_share;CL3VJzaGfYc]http://youtu.be/CL3VJzaGfYc[/video]
[video=youtube_share;S2TkD_D59oU]http://youtu.be/S2TkD_D59oU[/video]
[video=youtube_share;VG_uI3Cg7rI]http://youtu.be/VG_uI3Cg7rI[/video]
