Frosty Organics
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açaí gelato from 18th cycle no till beds. Fed mostly water and a few bio stimulants 
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açaí gelato from 18th cycle no till beds. Fed mostly water and a few bio stimulants 
Frosty Organics
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We top dress right when we transplant. Just neem seed meal, insect frass and castings. Then we feed a few compost extracts and top dress malted barley around day 21. We feed h2o most of the time with some coconut, q or aloe here and there!
Green Mopho
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Timing with top dress is important because the time it requires for those elements to break down and become available.
Do you find the neem meal gives a ton of nitrogen up front, and then fades quick?
Frosty Organics
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I would say nothing less than 15 gal. We are commercial so we run lots of 4x8 beds
Frosty Organics
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Exactly gotta be careful with top dressing as the food is usually available days to weeks later. With neem we like to have a little extra nitrogen in the beginning as we veg for a week in the beds then flip. I’d say the neem lasts a good 3 weeks. Allowing the plants lots of nitrogen as they kick in to the new homes then the first few weeks of stretch. Helps with microbiology as well. The insect frass and castings balance it out.
Green Mopho
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Care to share any of your base soil recipe? Have any soil tests to peek at? 
purpleskunkdutchtreat
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? My base is peatmoss perdalite and compost 20% being worm casting I'm adding basalt kelp meal need cake crab meal malted barley grain and alfalfa meal should I add gypsum or not I already made it with out but I can add or just top dress and suggestions thanks
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Green Mopho
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Gypsum is highly recommended. The crab meal has some calcium, but not much else you mentioned.
purpleskunkdutchtreat
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Does anyone put seedlings right in there no till pots or wait till they are bigger my seedling is looking a little burnt
Green Mopho
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Depends on your nitrogen source. If using manures or nitrate based organic N, you will burn. Protein based N like fish won’t burn.
purpleskunkdutchtreat
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what the heckpurpleskunkdutchtreat
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I did use a horse manure compost so maybe it's still to hot
kushyman
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.I used mineral salts for over 40 years ..
now I am organic..I am so far from scientific.
I just throw promix bale..4 .x.20L.bags of worm castings..some guano,..gypsum ..some kelp..and a bag of hen pellets
I water everything well..it heats up for up to a week or so and can be used after it cools down
what I do now after being wh[organic] for a years recycle the last “dirt”...and add a shovel or two of the rather potent fresh cooked stuff.
and from then on use the hose with a spray wand every 4 days
[for entertainment purposes only ]
now I am organic..I am so far from scientific.
I just throw promix bale..4 .x.20L.bags of worm castings..some guano,..gypsum ..some kelp..and a bag of hen pellets
I water everything well..it heats up for up to a week or so and can be used after it cools down
what I do now after being wh[organic] for a years recycle the last “dirt”...and add a shovel or two of the rather potent fresh cooked stuff.
and from then on use the hose with a spray wand every 4 days
[for entertainment purposes only ]
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Green Mopho
Grower of Many Things
You can plant a cover crop in it to assimilate and cycle some of that nitrogen.
purpleskunkdutchtreat
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Does anyone here make worm casting or maybe know of a thread on here
