So my current mix of soil I am noticing is lacking in K a little and am looking for a good supplement. I was thinking of trying green sand as I have used silica in past grows and know this is a great source of that too. I am running a little different set up than most. I run a veg and a bloom mix layered in my pot. I am trying to use a few additives as possible to keep cost down and my mix simple. In my current bloom mix that I have cooking for the next grow I have my roots organic soil as the base, steer manure for my nitrogen, Mushroom compost for mineral and mild amounts of nutrients, bat guano for P, Epsom salt for mag and cal, and lime to correct the PH. As you can see I am lacking K. Was also thinking I could sub the mushroom compost for the green sand as it has a lot of minerals in it too.
Green sand for K?
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it hold a small amount of Potash, if it were me,I'd use one of these and either use a DBL dose and wet the soil after letting it dry out well and re hit it with a WP as well as a solid solution of Liquid Kelp and/or Honey ES.OR dry you have soluble Kelp as well as kelp Meal. here are there values..
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ok green sand simple. its sand which most any rounded recipe you'll toss a punch or two of straight play box decent sand for texture ,right?well thats what this does too.ALSO, it give you trace elements right off and tapers off after a fairly short amount of time if i remember right... and it does take a long time to go to fully broken down stage.but once its initially used its a texture thing hence the name. green it the elements in it and thats why theres sooo many ppl saying its crap..its not..its crap..LMFAO IT's NOT!! lol but not truly needed but a good thing to infuse into a mix if you have a few bucks and like a good texture.it aint expensive.but ideally a bag of sand and some elemite or azomite would do essentially the same thing.
Ya I have some Azomite. I was hoping I would also see some of the benefits of the silica too. My plants are only going to be in the mix with it for about 40 days. I have used liquid silica additive as a PH up before and love the stuff so was hoping this would feed K and silica at the same time. I just got some Kelp meal today to add a little K I noticed it has a little nitrogen too and luckily I went a little light on the nitrogen this time so it should work out good. Maybe I will add the green sand and the kelp meal.
