Re: [compost_tea] Container growing with ACT

From: Daniel Fury <danielfury_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:45:37 -0800 (PST)


I dont use act as my ONLY nutrient source but it and
compost as a top dressing are quickly becoming the
only nutrient source the roots touch. I am beginning
to foliar feed more as a primary means of applying
additional nutrients (npk and such in form of
organics) and backing way off on what I add into the
soil. I also ammend the soilless mix between crops
with rock dusts, oyster shell, kelp meal and fish
pellets.

A few months ago I applied too much high nitrogen
guano tea AND molasses to a small batch of plants and
what I think happened is the bacteria bred so rapidly
they used all their oxygen because 3 days later the
plants looked like HELL and the soil reaked of
ammonia. One application of ACT and they process
began to reverse. We only lost 2 plants out of 10.
We took one of the sickliest plants of that bunch and
planted it into 2 gallons of pure high quality tested
compost. We never fed it a thing besides water and
act and it recovered noticably faster than the rest
and caught up with and eventually outpaced the batch
that didnt have the anerobic soil problem. Planting
directly into pure high quality compost blew my mind.
We've been using more and more compost.

All my work with act, which isnt a whole lot, has been
with containers. I'd love to hear about peoples
experience with container gardening with act and
compost. I have tons more info on our 1.5 year long
project with our container garden if any wants to
compare info on this topic.



--- butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> This a narrow question. Is anyone growing in
> containers either indoors or outdoors with ACT as
> the
> only nutrient source? I'm not uninterested in using
> ACT a supplement for container growing but
> specifically the question is.
>
> ACT only for containers?
>
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