I’ve been reading and re-reading this OT1 bonsai mother article for the past couple of days, and I feel like I’m going to end up trying this out in the near future to save space and keep some plants around. It’s really shocking to me that it’s not heavily reliant on bottled nutrients. I would assume that in a small pot, it would end up requiring something a little more wild than the 6-2-4 fish mix, which after looking at it, is an inoffensive product to me. However, I feel like this could be accomplished using KNF inputs.
I’ve been feeling like my method of just winging it with everything in my garden has been a severe detriment to my growing-related knowledge and has caused that bit of my knowledge to basically totally atrophy. At at this point, I feel like I really don’t know anything about growing aside from what something looks like when it needs nitrogen. I’ve just been relying on the soil to do all the work, and I need to figure out what sorts of things I can be feeding my plants that I’ll feel good about and keep them healthy. Gonna end up having to sit down and read a bunch of books and I’m gonna probably end up jumping back into fermenting all kinds of shit. My brother and his wife are going on a fishing day trip and I need to send them with a cooler to throw all the carcasses into so I can make some fish goo for my plants!
Also I have a seed starting problem. I’ll post more about the situation as it develops, but it’s clear to me that I’m going to learn exactly what the upper limit is for how many plants I can have going in my garden. I only have the capacity for complete neglect or total obsession with my garden, so I’ve gone pedal to the metal and am going to be extremely out of room soon. I’m starting to get the ball rolling on a Bonanza of Green inspired musical chairs scenario where everything shifts stations every few weeks and then I have to start more seeds. He says start a few seeds or take clones every two weeks, and I’m definitely going to be starting way more than he meant to. I would run it exactly how he wrote it, but I’m not growing with the same goals in mind than his methodology is outlining.