Top dressing w/ wormcastings Shovelhandle ???

[xcrispi]

Hey all ,
Esp. Shovelhandle - I think I remember catching in 1 of your posts / threads about top dressing your dirt plants w/ wormcastings . I'm curious how much you use and when ? I'm in the begining of the 5th week of flower and getting some yellow already from N def. during flowering . Any help / input is greatly appreciated .
Peace all
Crispi :jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

How come that doesn't sound so disgusting when you make it into something wet and call it Liquid Karma or something?

[MegaOctane12]

Top dressing the soil with worm castings? :wtf:

[twoguysupnorth]

ive done it, mine says to use about 1/4 cup per ten inch pot. then i guess when you water the nutrients just leach into the soil. you can also make a tea with it.

[keeko]

honestly i dont think you could ever OD on wormcasting in your soil.....the more the marrier.:twocents:

[MegaOctane12]

Why not premix it in the soil instead of add it later, there are much better liquid nutrient sources

[Bree1978]

MegaOctane- If you just mix it into your soil won't all of the nutrients be used up and leeched out by the time your plants reach week five of flowering?

I'm interested in using this at the end of flower too. Shov and twoguysupnorth, you said you've done it, what was your experience, and will you do it again (plus any other pointers)?

Where is the tea recipie?

Thanks, :jointsmile: Bree

[xcrispi]

MegaOctane- If you just mix it into your soil won't all of the nutrients be used up and leeched out by the time your plants reach week five of flowering?

I'm interested in using this at the end of flower too. Shov and twoguysupnorth, you said you've done it, what was your experience, and will you do it again (plus any other pointers)?

Where is the tea recipie?

Thanks, :jointsmile: Bree

Ditto Bree ,
Castings were mixed in the soil when it was orig. made up and it's gotta be gone , or we wouldn't have so much yellowing by the 5th week . I added about 4 oz. of w/c to the top of each 3 gal. pot and added some g/h 3 part / grow to their watering last night , see if it changes anything .
Peace all
Crispi :jointsmile:

[twoguysupnorth]

damn pc, this will be the third time writing this. lol. i should have said that i havnt used castings that late in flowering, this is my first time using them. they are 2 wks into flowering and look better than my previous times did at this stage. keeko is right it would be hard to overdo it with castings. i mixed it in the soil before planting, again when i transplanted and used it as a top dressing just before putting them into flower. i wouldnt hesitate to use them im sure i will, especially if there was a deff. there is a lot if info out there on compost teas, its just what it sounds like. some add there material in a bag, i didnt because it didnt matter if there were floaties in it. i just mixed it into water and let it sit for a while. it goes stagnant pretty quick so use it soon, or you can add a fish bubbler to keep it areated.

[TheGreenFog]

Hey, guys. Soil is interesting.

Zandor does a several-part series on "Preparing your garden for spring" in his podcast The Grow Report I think they are in the 30s...like podcast numbers 30-35 or something. You can look at The Grow Report (http://www.thegrowreport.com) or Dopefiend.co.uk: The Web's Favourite Cannabis Podcast Network (http://www.dopefiend.co.uk) for the descriptions and download all of them. In those podcasts, he describes exactly how to set up and maintain your own worm bed for your own personal outdoor OR indoor garden.

When you make that bed, you can produce your own worm castings and collect them. You will also produce a pure worm tea byproduct plus you can make more with the worm castings and use this on/in your soil. He goes through the entire process. It is very informative. If considering using worm castings, I highly recommend listening to these podcasts. :)

Be cool...be wormey.


The Fog :rastasmoke:

[MegaOctane12]

MegaOctane- If you just mix it into your soil won't all of the nutrients be used up and leeched out by the time your plants reach week five of flowering?

I'm interested in using this at the end of flower too. Shov and twoguysupnorth, you said you've done it, what was your experience, and will you do it again (plus any other pointers)?

Where is the tea recipie?

Thanks, :jointsmile: Bree


Yes that's the point, then you continually apply nutrients specifically for the flowering period. I don't really know what your trying to say, do you want your soil mixture to sustain your plants for their whole life cycle? All I'm saying is there is much better alternative to using worm castings emptied onto the soil and then watered in, use a specific flowering nutrient..

[Bree1978]

Well I guess my point is this sir, I only need a little tweaking at the end and this sounded like a good solution....without chemicals. I'm trying to go a little more organic but slowly due to cost. Not that I have to explain myself to you about my financial situation or how I'd like to grow my plants that I'll be the one to smoke. Grr.

:nonjointsmile: Bree

[TheGreenFog]

Well, Mega Octane seems to have had his cheerios pissed in recently. In my experience, he's usually pretty helpful...and not so abbrasive! hmm...Seems like lots of us are having a bad month or so.

Brush it off, Bree. No worries. Did u catch that part about the podcasts? They're good, right Zandor? (I know you're here somewhere...I see u posting...lol)

Hey, Bree...go grab a joint, listen to some info, chill...all will be well. :)

MO, chill out, dude.


The Fog :rastasmoke:

[Bree1978]

I will ck it out, Fog thanks for the link.

sorry I pissed into your cereal (more) Mega.....It kinda looked like a loo is all I can say...lol.

:jointsmile: Bree

[xcrispi]

Megaoctane12 = All I'm saying is there is much better alternative to using worm castings emptied onto the soil and then watered in, use a specific flowering nutrient.

Why would I wanna add more P - K by adding flowering nutes?
It's a N def. bro .

They have been getting the same nutes my hydro plants get , but diluted by 50% w/ r.o water . I'm using Latewoods 3 part recipe + cal mag , Koolbloom , and Liquid Karma . At this ponit in their lifecycle using his recipe they were only getting .25 dose of grow per gallon therefore the N def. which I did try to counteract before it even showd up by adding wormcastings to orig. soil mix .
See if they stay green a lil longer for me .
Peace
Crispi :jointsmile:

[MegaOctane12]

I think you read something into my post that wasn't there, I simply was making a point, it wasn't supposed to make you feel bad or have a 'your a idiot' undertone so if it did it wasn't intentional, my apologies.