What’s up DGC, El Pinche here with your daily dose of new grower question. I want to start moving my grow towards organic, with my endgame being a TLO/no till. Right now I use botanicare kind trio and get good results, its taught me the basics, but I dont want to learn pure bottled synthetics if I already know eventually I’m going to move outdoor and organic. I’m thinking of starting my move by switching to biobizz, and I want to get some advice before I dive in. If we assume I’m going to use the entire biobizz lineup-from bio grow all the way to alg-a-mic- what am I going to need to know about my auxiliary additives; things like bloom boosters or cal/mag and such. What have you all found that biobizz can be missing for a top shelf grow that I’ll need to supplement and what brands should I look for to both stay organic and compliment the bizz? Can I use things like my botanicare when I find a deficieny without harming the ecosystem I’ll be building? Would something like the build a soil complete soil building kit be overkill since I’m planning on using bottled nutes or will it make a good base for my ecosystem to build in? And finally, if I do use the build a soil kit will I be able to re-use the soil after I harvest and just re-amend it? And my second final question is will 5gallon radicle bags be large enough to grow with biobizz, I already know they are way too small to go the supersoil route. Thanks for the help.
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Let’s start with the soil. If you want to add the coot mix or whatever mix to the base then just feed the soil. The bio bizz feeds the soil but the plants as well(processed). So you could do the base mix and use bio bizz or amend it and go full living soil. You’ll learn about top dressing, compost, microbes, cover crop, and brewing teas. The botainicare must likely has synthetic chelates that force feed the plant. You want the plant to request what it wants. You just have to have it there and the microbe to deliver. Cal mg is added in other versions like lime, oyster shell, epsom salt. Definitely reuse the soil just giving it a couple days to let roots break down before removing stump.
I’m not sure I’m ready for the full living soil yet. That seems like a big jump that I should have a little more experience to take on, and definately have a little more time to dedicate to the ladies. I think I’m leaning towards using a scaled back feeding of the biobizz in a quality organic soil, then once I get the hang of that afterba few runs, try and start adding in amendments and scaling my biobizz back, until I have an amended soil composition of my own making. Does that seem like a natural progression with room for learning or am I breaking it down into too many steps and complicating it?
Good soil info from soup.
https://www.dudegrows.com/soil-with-soup-notes/
Thanks for that
Never had an issue with Botanicare Kind alongside organics…I use ,recharge,mammoth P, Guanos,.Azomite etc, just watch your ladies.
Btw as a side note on Botanicare, the factory workers here got 3 days notice before being laid off, Scott’s Miracle Gro bought them.out. It was made in Chandler AZ…now California,lot of folks I know are jobless now.
I’m nearly the exact same boat. Botanicare, has been working well for me. I’m trying some biobizz at the moment on half my flowerroom. seems to work great. Only difference is I am in coco, and I dont really want to change that part.
I’ve recently changed from Coco and mills nutrients, to soil and biobizz. My endgame is similar to yours, I want to be able to reuse soil and ideally spend less money whilst growing, hopefully ditching bottles altogether.
I started in a light mix soil with 1 litre and then into 3 litre air pots and moved to house and garden batmix in their final 30 litre fabric pots. The plants have been fed a beneficial bacteria product, bactivator, innoculated with mycorrhizae at every transplant and fed biobizz fish mix and algamic. The plants have grown well, showing no deficiencies. Now 12/12 has started I have started to feed bloom and top max. 5 plants under a 600w hps
It’s a nice change from Coco, having a fungal and bacteria filled soil, but until I have the final yield and comparison I can’t say whether it will be a continuing change, though I hope it is.
I also give a silicic acid supp, as it’s proven to increase plant strength, even though it’s not organic.