If I were to use organic two row malted barley cracked and ready and added to my soil mixed in as an amendment how long would it take to cook into the soil and release the enzymes in it and start working on the microbes in the soil?How long should I cook it for?
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Good question. I would like to know as I have 50lbs.
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As far as I understand malted barley doesnāt need to ācookā, it is used mostly to feed fungal growth and like you said the microbes help break it down to make things like beneficial enzymes, chitinase etc plant available.
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So pretty much churn into soil and water it and thatās all?
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Yes mate or you can top dress it or add it direct to your worm bin and let them do all the work
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Absolutely put it in, right after a compost tea is great.
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@FattyRoots is 
percent correct!! In fact, āCootsā recommended 1/2 of teaspoon sprinkled on top of soil when you transplant seedlings, aids in root development. Using Malted Barley resulted in 15% faster finishing!!** SS/BWā¦mister 
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Thatās what she saidā¦
sorry for the crassness, āyou can take the boy out of Aus but you canāt take the Aussie out the boyā 
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I just started using it this year and wonāt ever stop. Great stuff! Most ppl have already answered but ya itās pretty much available to the life in the soil straight away. Iāll usually sprinkle on a layer after a top dressing. Brings on the mycelium pretty fast!
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I have used the old Coots recommendation of 1 ounce (28 grams) of malted barley powder to 5 gallons of water and burned plants.
I have had better results using smaller amounts (1 TBSP per gallon). I like to put the grains in a jar with a bit of water and hit it with an immersion blender. I then strain and add it to a bucket of water.
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How the hell did that happen?Coots talks about a guy that uses 10 lbs of malted barley a week.Check out the future cannabis project and look up Coots heās on there itās like a 3 hour podcast.he talks all about it.I didnāt know that stuff burned shit yikes.
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In my experience less is more. Coots kinda over does everything IMO. Iāve had to adjust a lot of his advice, such as using 5ml/gal ksil every feeding. Way too much K and drove my pH up high.
Yes I watched it.
I do give him credit for pushing calcium though. 
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This is something Iāll have to try. Does it somehow speed up flowering, am I reading that right?
Weed podcasters/ YouTubers all seem to exaggerate just a bit, lots of good info but most needs adjusted.
I think it might, but Iāve never really done a side by side study. It seems to be roughly 10% faster.
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I forget which one it was but one of them advised full strength fox farm trio if youāre under 1000w lights in hydro. That did not go well for me 
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Everything in moderation.
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Does he grind his or use it whole? I have to go re-watch. It has been 3 years.
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Grind it right before use, thats why I call it malted barley powder 
Ive actually been making my own cannabis sprout teas instead of malted barley, but most people donāt have a pound of cannabis seed. 
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Donāt know whatās up with FF these days but I had got a bag of FFOF and it burned up every seed I planted in it and burned another plant for like 4 weeks before it started to get back to normal.They spray a synthetic nitrogen solution on it Iāve heard.Iām starting to think the only good product they have is the big bloom.Canāt really fuck that one up itās all castings and bat shit.
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I still use big bloom once a week with some mollases but thatās it for feeding this grow, just a decent potting soil mixed with organic tomato food and kelp meal.
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