Agriculture Reference
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Pure, perfectly grown TLO bud is paradise!
Usually, deficiency symptoms are all too often a sign of nutrients actually being locked out, from pH-
related mistakes. These mistakes include using too much molasses or kelp/seaweed amendments, using
hard well or city water with a super high pH, or using a pure water source with liquid organic nutrients
that are full of chelating organic acids. Now a little bit of humic, fulvic, or ascorbic acid is all right, but
if the liquid nutrient causes your nutrient solution pH to dive really low and hard, it will sometimes give
the fungi a little too much of an advantage and they will take over the container soil mix; these fungi are
not the Myco fungi, rather they are other “indigenous” opportunistic feeders that prefer more dense (dead)
organic matter to feed on, like rice, bark, kelp, etc.
REV'S TIP
Surprisingly, you can starve TLO container plants fairly easily by underes-
timating how much the microlife need in terms of nutrients and resources. Remember you truly are
feeding the soil mix, because it is living. Nitrogen and calcium, along with oxygen, are all required
very heavily by the microbeasties. That's why I like to make my teas almost at suggested ratios of
the nutrients, and when I make a flowering type tea, it is common for me to use full recommended
amounts of Big Bloom and Fish Fertilizer in a tea for these very reasons.
Synthetic Death in an Organic Environment
Thisseemstobeoneofthehardestthingsformanytowraptheirheadsaround,becauseifyoudon'tunder-
stand the dynamics, it seems fine to add a little synthetic nutrient. That couldn't be more wrong, my green
friends. If you pollute your soil mix with ANY synthetic nutrients, that soil mix will no longer be able to
support super natural levels of microlife, due to the dehydrating qualities of those synthetic salts. As soon
