Chefdave
Tree of Life Genetics
Good Morning all
Wanted to start a thread on synganic gardening techniques and results. Synganic gardening for cannabis is a relatively newer grow style, that is growing immensely in quality commercial, and personal cultivation operations. It combines using salts as base nutrients, and organic inputs, usually in foilar feeding applications. In my opinion and most who have tried, it is the best of both worlds, achieving the speed, yield and control of salts, with the taste and smell benefits of organic cultivation, without the intensive ipm, slower growth and smaller yield that are drawbacks of organics. It is a growing style best achieved using a Coco perlite substrate. I have been using this technique for years, but not in a crop steering method. I used to hand water, which was not only time consuming, messy, labor intensive and more importantly inconsistent. It seems in the canna world, growers generally are either organic or synthetic. I know the personal feelings of many for being fully organic due to a plethora of reasons, and respect that immensely. This is for growers who want to try new things and are not tied in to one style. As a grower with 40 yrs under his belt, 85 percent of that time being a home grower, I have tried every method out there from soil organic, coco organic, ebb and flow, dwc, DTW etc. This method for me , has been game changing in terms of quality, speed and best yield of any method. Although not necessary, multiple daily fertigation is recommended with this method. Most problems I see with salt growers are caused by lockout, leading to nutrients defiencies. Multi fertigation with limited runoff eliminates this problem. In addition when using beneficials you reduce the need for exacting pH requirements of salt only hydroponic techniques. Coco is a excellent substrate for cannabis, it offers all around unparalleled qualities not found in other sustrates. The amount of coco/perlite ratio is dependant on fertigation frequency and personal preference, but find 50/50 mix to be ideal for 3x a day or more fertigation shots . My method is salts as a base, calcium and magnesium included, then using drench Bene's, and foilar spraying organic inputs such as fulvic, seaweed etc. It has been a game changer for me personally and encourage anyone that's not a newbie, to give it a shot. It is a simple, time saving and high performance style. Cheers Chef
Wanted to start a thread on synganic gardening techniques and results. Synganic gardening for cannabis is a relatively newer grow style, that is growing immensely in quality commercial, and personal cultivation operations. It combines using salts as base nutrients, and organic inputs, usually in foilar feeding applications. In my opinion and most who have tried, it is the best of both worlds, achieving the speed, yield and control of salts, with the taste and smell benefits of organic cultivation, without the intensive ipm, slower growth and smaller yield that are drawbacks of organics. It is a growing style best achieved using a Coco perlite substrate. I have been using this technique for years, but not in a crop steering method. I used to hand water, which was not only time consuming, messy, labor intensive and more importantly inconsistent. It seems in the canna world, growers generally are either organic or synthetic. I know the personal feelings of many for being fully organic due to a plethora of reasons, and respect that immensely. This is for growers who want to try new things and are not tied in to one style. As a grower with 40 yrs under his belt, 85 percent of that time being a home grower, I have tried every method out there from soil organic, coco organic, ebb and flow, dwc, DTW etc. This method for me , has been game changing in terms of quality, speed and best yield of any method. Although not necessary, multiple daily fertigation is recommended with this method. Most problems I see with salt growers are caused by lockout, leading to nutrients defiencies. Multi fertigation with limited runoff eliminates this problem. In addition when using beneficials you reduce the need for exacting pH requirements of salt only hydroponic techniques. Coco is a excellent substrate for cannabis, it offers all around unparalleled qualities not found in other sustrates. The amount of coco/perlite ratio is dependant on fertigation frequency and personal preference, but find 50/50 mix to be ideal for 3x a day or more fertigation shots . My method is salts as a base, calcium and magnesium included, then using drench Bene's, and foilar spraying organic inputs such as fulvic, seaweed etc. It has been a game changer for me personally and encourage anyone that's not a newbie, to give it a shot. It is a simple, time saving and high performance style. Cheers Chef
I worked for the plants, instead of the opposite. Used to tell my newer line cooks, you will never be a great cook till you learn to control your food, instead of the food controlling you. Cheers
