do you have to normally have a larger pot size with these amendments that have lower mpk
for your grow whether it be a medicinal plant or tomatoes or whatever you're harvesting when we
take that biomass from that single plant we're literally taking like 1800 1200 milligrams of
elements from the ground in nature nature's not throwing a bunch of amendments on the ground it's
throwing what it created right above itself on the ground how much amendments do you add to your
soil initially and then how much do you reamend your soil in between each grow personally i like
alfalfa meal kelp meals a lot of the different plant meals they may not have high npk ratios
but they have a little bit of everything have you ever wondered how much mass your
plants are actually using when they're growing well in this video we're going to get into it
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this is what leads to our next question is for using dry amendments using like again i'm going
to throw in the bat iguano the the zebra guano the bone meal thrown in all those amendments why
i found um that really that sweet range of veg no more than four weeks five weeks max uh between a
seven and ten gallon is the the bare minimum size if you're using these other dry amendments like
again i don't want to say plant-based but what you're saying like these other like kelp but and
i find them to be probably i mean tell me if i'm wrong but the plant-based ones seem to normally be
less in mpk ratios too right so what i'm asking is do you have to normally have a larger
pot size with these amendments that have lower mpk for your grow and do you normally go for a longer
veg time for that reason i operate in anywhere from 10 to 15 gallons and flour and that seems to
do really well for me a lot of my big npk comes from good compost if you have a good selection
or a good source of really good compost a good portions of your mpk's are going to come from that
because it's a big breakdown of several hundred plants wood all different kinds of uh carbon and
nitrogen sources basically many different states too what they're in you know from the fresh from
the top of the forest floor as you can dig deeper you know it's like i see i reuse my
soil it's like there's chunks of biochar that are getting smaller and smaller and the last
i just reinvented my soil i broke open a piece of biochar man there was like little roots and it was
like a whole other world in there i was just like man like how cool is this like i i get excited
over that type of stuff like it intrigues me to keep uh engaging my kids and like break out the
microscope check this out like look at the even if they don't really care it just keeps my mindset
and my connection with earth and my plants true you know and it's hard to do oh absolutely you
know another interesting thing is is like we put all these amendments in our soil and we see this
plant grow and create a whole bunch of biomass and we're harvesting this biomass we even put it on a
scale to see how much biomass we got and we're like that's a decent amount it actually doesn't
take a lot out of the soil to create that amount of biomass it takes milligrams of said element
to create that biomass and we're adding grams sometimes pounds of these amendments to our soil
it's there the nutrients are there what we're pulling out of the soil isn't as much as what a
lot of people think when we harvest a crop whether it be a medicinal plant or tomatoes or whatever
you're harvesting when we take that biomass from that single plant we're literally taking like 1800
1200 milligrams of elements from the ground you know and i i'm asking you this question because
that's very fascinating thought process i've never i've never really thought about in and i'm asking
you this question more just so i can study it more on this where where did this thought process
come from because that's that's that is very interesting it's like you're saying if you have a
pound of material biomass i mean when you say 1200 or let's say 1218 are you talking about just the
biomass are you talking about with the stem and all that other stuff like everything everything's
inside the entire plant yeah so that's really interesting where did you hear that from if you
don't mind me asking like or did you was that original thought where where did that come from
diving deeper on that i'll have to find it there's been a couple of studies that
come out recently on this um with the help of dr elaine ingram and a few other people
they've been quite literally measuring how much um plants take out of the soil by stating wow like
because they have the funding to do so now they can do 500 000 tests and get the the granular data
that they need and uh we're starting to figure out and it kind of makes a lot of sense because in
nature nature's not throwing a bunch of amendments on the ground it's throwing what it created right
above itself on the ground an animal might come along and die right there as well or you know wind
might blow in some things but in nature they're not throwing pounds of a particular amendment
on a certain area it's just using the dead grass that fell over there the dead weeds
that fell over there tree leaves anything else and that's all composting on that top layer
and adding all the npk micronutrients macro nutrients all right back to the soil right there
and you know trees and forests live on forever and everything you know if anyone's ever walked on uh
on an uncut forest every foot you have me a real uncut for some places where people haven't walked
in 50 years every foot you take your foot is going down three feet four feet you know what
i mean you sink into it you sink into it it is and that was that you really is interesting about what
you said it's like i mean how many animals are going to die right it's like they're not
i mean lay down it's like one piece of carca and i've said this in my nitrogen video actually too
a long ass time ago it's like it's not like a whole bunch of animals die right there on the
on the waterfront it creates nitrogen toxicity you know and i but i never really connected what
you just said again it's like you're absolutely right and well and and adding to that too is
nature also we can't forget nature has the ability to to govern itself so oh we have mount you know
good sun lots of water this year i'm going to grow a lot this year you know look at a tree the growth
of the ring so kind of matching that within your system whether you're in a two by two tent a four
by four ten and how much you're pushing because it might use less but if if the demand above the sun
and everything you're trying to do it then you might need more and and forests are such good
regulators of of that and they can communicate that to their saplings and stuff like hey we're
not going to grow too much this year we're going to preserve that or even certain pines that hold
on to their seeds for you know hundreds of years yeah up to hundreds of years to have a forest fire
to finally release them down into the forest floor so you know understanding that our plants you know
they want to regulate they want to communicate with their soil the roots and the microbes and
and let them be let them figure it out and and and try to match that with your environment you know
and that's that's it's not an easy thing to do i'm in northern illinois summers are extremely humid
now it's winter i you know i can barely keep up with the humidity two gallons a day just going in
the air just trying to you know i'm in michigan so yeah i feel like a feeling yeah i mean so you know
sometimes that this not even focusing so much on the food but the environment and and matching it
to what the plants you know genetically capable of doing you know it leads right into that next
question is how do you recycle your soil with this level of awareness of how much milligrams
the plant actually needs if you had 100 of bioavailability in your soil and everything
was connected how much amendments do you add into your soil and how much do you reamend that same
soil and i i'm not trying to add a question onto a question on the question but i think it it's
all kind of like it's one question really is how much amendments do you add to your soil initially
and then how much do you reamend your soil in between each grow and if you don't reament it
even between your scrow how often do you actually reamend i start off with very
baseline soil basically so it's not supercharged i'm not throwing a bunch of amendments at it
i start off like that on purpose and then usually 30 days in i'm gonna do a top dress
of around one cup of all the different amendments that i have whether that be like a build a soil
craft blend amendment blend or if i made my own blend up because i couldn't get build a soil craft
blend quickly enough or whatever because like i said i'll use whatever i can get my hands on so
usually it's just a literal one cup 30 days after veg like right before you're transitioning into
into flowering and then two weeks into flower i'll do another top dress and the rest of the time i'm
just i'm using a tea maybe right as i do that top dress in the flower i'll use a tee to help get
everything going still and make sure everything's going well to break down all those amendments but
other than that uh i i don't remain a lot like i have i have four 30 gallon trash cans in which
i always have on hand that have soil in it and i use maybe 50 or 60 pounds of amendments per year
not to throw you on the spot could you share your screen could you show us the live camera though
yeah and what are those amendments that you purchase specifically if you might be asking
personally i like alfalfa meal kelp meals a lot of the different plant meals they may not have
high npk ratios but they have a little bit of everything and that's what i'm going for that's
what the microbes like and that's what the plant like just like when you're feeding with synthetics
the goal is to not feed them too much and have them always wanting for more so they keep
up taking it the same goal is kind of there for the microbes if you give them way too much sugars
and foods and this that the other thing they're just going to be like cool i'm going to chill here
i got everything okay they're propagating they're just doing their own thing they're segregating in
different root zones they're not in sync i like that they're bringing the hot pockets to them
so the excel spreadsheet we're going to be going over actually has close to
10 000 separate data points as you can see right here uh going going worldwide of
anything and everything you can run into from cities and states everything across the board