im looking to add trace elements to top dress what would be your guyez suggestions?
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Stoned dust
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I’d go with something like this:
see the top dressing instructions.
Cheers
G
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Rock dust, kelp meal, and sea-90 are all excellent sources of micronutrients. There are also products like Build-a-Soil Big 6, and BioAg TM7 that contain trace minerals chelated with humic acids.
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@ReikoX beat me to it. Big 6 or TM7 are what you want. BAS makes the Big 6 and it leaves out one element since Colorado has an abundance of it. I can’t remember now, maybe iron. They’re fairly reasonably priced.
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Azomite, bee pollen and a slurry of blended aloe leaves would be my suggestions. Loads of trace minerals, enzymes, micro nutrients and amino acids between the 3
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Yep its iron.
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Only thing that I would suggest that hasn’t been suggested would be Comfrey either green mulched or in an fpj/fpe.
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Thats the first application of Bee Pollen that I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing that @AzSeaindooin420
I still take it, almost daily.
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Nature’s super food for sure! Not many seem to know about all the health benefits of it for us as humans or how wonderful it can be in gardening but bee pollen is a must in my humble opinion
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OK well Thanks for that. Bee Pollen 
has been in the cupboard for 25+ years here.
A buddy and his Father have hives, and it; bee pollen, was the answer to my yearly Late -Summer pollen allergies…
They have never returned, once I started taking a small amount daily.
6 -10 grains daily for the 1st week, to make sure your not allergic. Now I take half a tea-spoon daily. Big work-load during the day, a teaspoon does it
Thanks for helping me take it UNDERGROUND. Who da thunk!
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Hmm that’s very interesting, out in the desert allergies can be very gnarly for ppl out here, def would be another use I can suggest ppl try it for, kinda wonder if locally sourcing it from the bees in the local habitat would have anything to do with it too cuz we do have some local bee keepers out here
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Bingo, the closer you can source the Pollen to your location, the more effective it will be. Daily doses of Local Bee Pollen will stop you from Reacting to the allergen’s in your area, because you gradually build a Tolerance for the items contained within the pollen
I can attest to its efficacy. I’ve shared the success with lots of people, who have also found benefits
Plus it’s just a blast of Natural nrg
Have a great day @AzSeaindooin420
HOLD ON FOLKS. HERE IS THE LIST OF BEE POLLEN INGREDIENTS : Brace Yourself
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Vitamins:
Provitamin A (carotenoids) 5-9 mg %
Vitamin B1 (thiamine) 9.2 micrograms %
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
Vitamin B3 (Niacin)
Vitamin B5 (panothenic acid)
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 5 micrograms %
Vitamin B12 (cyamoco balamin)
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
Vitamin D - Vitamin E
Vitamin H (biotin)
Vitamin K. Choline. Inositol
Folic Acid, 5 micrograms %
Pantothenic acid 20-50 micrograms/gram
Rutin. 16 milligrams %
Rutin in beehive pollen 13%
Vitamin PP (nicotinicamide)
Minerals:
Calcium. 1 - 15% of ash
Phosphorus 1-20% of ash
Iron, 1-12% of ash
0.01-1.3% of fresh pollen
0.6-7.1 mg % of air dried
Copper 05-08% of ash
1.1-2.1 mg % of fresh
Potassium, 20-45% of ash
Magnesium, 1-12% of ash
Manganese, 1.4% of ash, 0.75 mg %
Silica, 2-10% of ash
Sulphur, 1% of ash
Sodium - Titanium-Zinc
Iodine - Chlorine
Boron-Molydbenum
Fatty Acids (Conifer Pollen)
Total list identified are:
Caproic (C-6) - Caprylic (C-8)
Capric (C-10) - Lauric (C-12)
Myristic (C-14) - Palmitic (C-16)
Palmitoleic (C-15) one double bond
Uncowa - Stearic (C-18)
Oleic (C-18) one double bond
Linoleic (C-18) two double bonds
Arachidic (C-20) - Stearic (C-22)
Limolenic (C-18 three double bonds)
Eicosanoic (C-20 one double bond)
Brucic (C-22 one double bond)
Pseudotduga dry pollen contains
0.76-0.89 % fatty acid. Major are:
Oleic, Palmitic, Linoleic,
Pinus dry pollen contains:
125-1.33% fatty acid based on
dry weight of pollen, major are:
Linolenic, Oleic - Stearic.
Enzymes & Co-enzymes:
Disstase
Phosphatase
Amylase
Cataiase
Saccharase
Diaphorase
Pectase
Cozymase
Cytochrome systems
Lactic dehydrogenase
Succinic dehydrogenase
Note: The cozymase in mixed fresh pollen runs about 0.5-1 .0 milligram per gram. comparable to the amounts in yeast. (Bee pollen contains all known enzymes & co-enzymes and probably all that will be known in the future.)
Proteins, Globulins, Peptones, and Amino Acids:
7-35%. average 20%: 40-50%
may be free amino acids: 10-13% consists
of amino acids in dry pollen.
35 grams of pollen per day can satisfy the
protein requirements of man. 25 grams of
pollen per day can sustain man because it
contains 6.35 grams as indicated by Rose.
Plus other amino acids.
Carbohydrates:
Gums - Pentosans - Cellulose Sporonine
(7-57% of pollen of various species:
29% in bee collected.)
Starch (0-22% of pollen)
Total sugars (30-40%)
Sucrose or cane sugar
Levulose or fruit sugar / fructose
Glucose or grape sugar
Reducing sugars (0.1-19%)
Bee-collected: Non-reducing sugar 2.71%.
Reducing: 18.82-41.21% Mean. 25.71%
Pollen contains the same number of amino acids, but vary greatly in quantity of each:
Tryptophan 1.6% - Leucine 5.6% Lysine 5.7% - Isoleucine 4.7% Methionine 1.7% - Cystine 0.6% Thresonine 4.6% - Arginine 4.7% Phenylalanine 3.5% - Histidine 1.5% Valine 6.0% - Glutamic acid 2.1% Tyrosine - Glycine - Serine - Proline - Alanine - Aspartic acid Hydroxyproline - Butyric Acid.
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eye of newt 
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Sea water another good one
Natural Farming Practice: Ocean Water for Plants - Gingerhill Farm Retreat.
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Well I’m adding bee pollen to my next mix but Greensand,rock phosphorus,kelp meal and worm castings are good sources. Greensand is great stuff for trace elements not in abundance but has 72 trace elements.
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Topdress with a diversity of tree leaves (from different trees), and other plants with deep taproots like thistle, nettle, dandelion and brace yourself… kitchenscraps.
Been doing this for the last year and a half and it seems to cover all the bases.
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Basalt or powdered granite best as mixed in full soil blend IMO
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