Soma is a soil grower/cannabis breeder. Excerpt from his article from High Times with his tea recipe.


Soma 2/10/2003 High Times

People I meet and smoke with always ask me how I get my pot to taste so good. The answer is that I am an intense caretaker and lover of plants. To get medicinal cannabis, I grow organically in a soil rich in worm castings and all the other nutrients and trace minerals needed for a healthy herb plant.

Each plant has at least one stake supporting it as the buds get heavier and heavier. By the third week in flowering, I have twisted and bent my tops in the tried and true method of supercropping, giving them that added stress that makes the yield and taste better. In the fourth week, I give the plants some organic flowering food with an NPK ratio of 1.5-13-14. I give it to the plants twice in that week. From the end of the fourth week in the 12 hours on/12 hours off flowering light-cycle, I start to give the ganja my secret ingredient, guano tea.

I use a mix of bat and seabird guanos with an NPK of 2-15-2; this particular one comes from Indonesia. I like it because it has no smell. I take 100 grams of the dried guano and mix it with 2 quarts of hot water, stirring it with a plant stake until it is almost all dissolved. I then take an 8-ounce cup of the tea and add it to 10 liters of water with a pH of 6.6. I water the beds twice a week with this tea, waiting until they are dry before applying it. I keep doing this until the middle of the seventh week in 12/12. With 10-week plants like the ones Iā??m growing now, I like to give them a good flush with water for two weeks or more before harvest.

In the 32 years I have been growing this most sacred of plants, I have tried all kinds of plant foods, from Miracle Gro to 10-52-10 with all its heavy metals. I have never found anything that beats guano for taste, yield, or potency. The taste that the cannabis acquires when using this guano is so fruity and clean that it lingers on your tongue for at least five minutes after finishing the joint.

The bud quality and yield that comes from using the beds instead of pots is incomparable. I use nothing but neem oil and ladybugs for insect control, and I only take the large fan leaves off when I first harvest the plants, waiting until the buds are dry before the final manicuring.

There are many mango farmers out there using guano fertilizers on their crops. If you want the fruit of your labor to taste like mangos, try growing with guano.
Shovelhandle Reviewed by Shovelhandle on . Bat Guano: Yes or No? reading a grow guide from a seed company, they become apoplectic about guano, screaming: you'll never get it out of your soil! first, I'm assuming that they are talking about blending guano into the container (or ground). and, in general, after one grow, that soil is tossed, so why would/should I care that it stays in the soil? to date, I've NOT added guano to the soil; instead, I put it into an aerated tea, and damned little at that. somewhere I read that guano leaves a bad taste Rating: 5