Quote Originally Posted by sarah louise
I have a feeling it would be cheaper to buy dope than to try and grow it outside with bottled water.
ok an exaggeration, but I'd be looking at buying 150 litres of water a week and seeing as my only problem is access to water, not water quality, bottled water wouldn't be of advantage.

food?

Mainly compost ~

I keep chooks and pidgeons for natural manure sources (and eggs for the table) which I blend with various green waste from house and garden (with extras from a couple of neighbours), spent mushroom compost, shredded newspaper, twig and bark charcoal, small amount of blood and bone meal, dolomite, rock phosphate, seaweed extract, molasses and few chopped up carp. Giving the chooks access to the heap speeds up the process and produces a compost that would make Peter Cundell cry.

Other than preparing a bed with the compost, every second watering has seaweed extract and a little fish emulsion if the plant looks like it wants extra nitrogen and mulched with sugar cane waste, over a layer of clover hay, then top dress as necessary with lucerne pellets.

Coming into flowering I add a commercial liquid organic bloom mix to the watering schedule.

I'm going to trial one plant with a 1/2 teaspoon of molasses replacing half the seaweed extract in the watering schedule. If the results are good, it might be a way of reducing the risk of salting up the soil too much with the seaweed extract.

I don't know if it qualifies as complete nutrition, but the plants seem healthy enough.
sarah louise Reviewed by sarah louise on . Water Restrictions I'm so sorry miss mary jane, but I am only allowed to turn a tap on outside on a tuesday or a saturday, between 7 and 8 pm. If you're thirsty in between times you'll just have to wait... :wtf: Fat chance. The lawns can die, the shrubs can die, heck some of the trees can die (so long as they aren't the ones screening the back garden from prying eyes), but my dope plants need water. Towns watering off this end of the Murray are at Stage 4 with a residential garden exemption of 2 hours per Rating: 5