Karanja is hot and source of NPK, especially Nitro ..... recommended soil bake for minimum 10 days but longer is better ....
I feed Karanja to my worms and they turn out castings that are rich - Karanja will add weight / size / population when used in a worm bin ..... I cannot stress this point enough ....
You can buy all the ingredients needed for a LOS Grow and you’ll do great but if you really want the finest you’ll do as I’ve started to do and as
@Organic Sinse has been doing for years and that is build fine compost bins .... Sinse has the art and science of building a worm bin that produces compost / castings that are directed to each growth cycle phase - she’s a teenager, ok she wants this so she gets Worm Bin [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] castings ....
I hope to get to Sensi level, myself I’m using a lot of purchased ingredients and im working on my own - In this my first LOS grow I have my worms and castings .....
Myself what I bring is passion and desire to grow ANYTHING, I’m an organic guy who has always treated the soil with respect but never really connected LOS and growing, I thought until November of last year - growing organic meant
OF and bottles of fish this and guano that - liquid seaweed - kelp - bottles full of promises / magic stuff, I thought that was Organics and IT AIN’T but as I said I love to dig outside in the dirt and always composted, etc sompassion and desire is there ......,I simply want the best, don’t think you’ll get much debate on quality ....
When I see your buds / yields or
@slowandeasy and others using coco or full blown hydro with autopots or some of the crazy DWC grows I think wow but then I go back to my Street Dealer and he sold me LOS Weed and how much better it was and the taste and I think, yea I want that, it was so Flippin sweet, cost a little more but worth it, and this other must be hydro grow weed and then it struck me ..... what the flip, wonder how much pesticide I’ve smoked, Monsanto oh no .... that was turning point, I had to grow my own organic and thought
OF but Dealer LOS stuck in head ..... then cam AFN, I joined and got into the organic thread and member recommended I listen to KIS Podcast and Coots - I did and I learned so much from listening to Coot himself and I associated with him, I’m a West Coast 1960-1970 Baby Boomer Era .... I smoked before I grew and my garden career started when wife ask me to plant flowers in 1977, I was hooked on gardening and Mother Earth News and Organics ..... thru the years I practice Ruth Stout
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Stout methods of Organics and here we are today, learning more about Karanja and the like .....
Back to Karanja, you can top dress with but limited amounts, myself I have not,
@Organic Sinse may have more input on that - for top dress I use Gro-Kashi, Craft Blend and BuildaBud Compost from BuildaSoil, some Malibu Compost, kelp, my worm bin compost and worms - multiple dressings of that - it is so good to put living compost into your pot bro, killer I’m telling ya .....
Karanja helps aid in pest prevention and when applied in conjunction with Neem it really kicks up the value ..... Karanja will make your worms, squirm, they Flippin love it, they will grow bigger and reproduce faster ..... their castings will be rich in nutrients, nutrients your plant will take up and use when they want it ..... Karanja, Neem, Barley, Kelp, Alfalfa are all great foods for the worm, in return castings produced will be far superior to most commercially available ....
On soil it is important to have soil at Field Capacity BEFORE you transplant .... When I transplant I take an empty transplant container and mold soil around ..... oh that reminds me, add micozzie root stuff to soil when you put into final pot before transplant ....
Real good sources of fertilizer is feed stores, I’ve gotten 50 lb. bag of organic kelp, alfalfa meal and pellets plus alfalfa, straw, oyster shells, grains and cover crops seeds, tea seeds and lots of other goodies such as big drain pans for pots, real McCoy corn brooms to sweep grow area $5.69 btw made in USA and lots of good stuff if you haven’t visited your local feed store, it’s worth a visit .....
Start slow .... rather see you produce a killer plant and the very best you can, success breeds success .... maybe you’ll win over
@slowandeasy - hehe .....
Wishing you nothing but the BEST of Grows!
Peace,
OB
Please Note: In pics it shows transplant at normal soil level, MISTAKE Don’t Do ....
Rather have soil higher in the middle and allow for mulch and top dressings to follow .... Another goof was top dressing too close when young so a mound of soil above main soil line and amend in that area for starters eliminates that issue ..... Mound soil almost to top of pot, top dressings and mulch will bring up and all important feeder roots will grow into mulch ...... Note: CONTRARY to popular belief marijuana DOES NOT NEED A TAP ROOT, in fact, marijuana grows better in a wider flatter pot than a taller skinny pot and nomtap required ..... Note on the transplant and all the roots on that baby, do you see a tap root? I’m using rootmaker pot, btw which prunes the roots right out of the gate, that tap roots that sprouted was pruned.
