I’m growing organically and using Redbud Living Soil and I have Redbud Aloe Powder and Redbud Labs. Which one is once a week and which one is once every other week? I forgot and forgot to note it so I will once I find out lol.
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The Aloe Powder is supposed to be once a week I believe, but I’ve never used it.
Hey @AnthonykLoLo38! Welcome to OG. By any chance are you in Oklahoma? We have a Redbud Soil Co here, and I wanted to know what people thought about them.
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The guy I used to work for bought a bunch of their living soil. It seemed to be working well for him while I was there. They were selling a ton of it, and could hardly keep up.
I apologize, how rude of me. @AnthonykLoLo38 Welcome to overgrow!!
@AnthonykLoLo38 Welcome to the OG community!
I was told Aloe every two weeks. But, I am not familiar with redbud.
I would use aloe anytime your plant needed a pick me up. Obviously not late in flower (unless really needed), direct sunlight, etc.
LABs are great as a soil innoculant. They will really kick start the nutrient cycling so I would recommend to start light and work your way up. Again, I wouldn’t apply real late in flower. In my experience a few times during the cycle is plenty.
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I use aloe innatura as an adhesive … As my plants are far away, I always used it together with diluted bat guani, beer yeast, molasses and in biofertilizers …
I once talked to some farmers and thought it best not to use aloe with biological control, because aloe has properties that could harm, in this case the bacillus thungiensis …
I did not research if this is true, but as the person who referred me is expedient, I believed …
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Welcome to the community @AnthonykLoLo38 I’ve never used powdered aloe only fresh or fermented viscous liquid. But I’d say aloe every other week(and when popping seeds and dealing with heat stress/temp fluctuations) and LABS a few times per cycle. Maybe twice in veg and then once during early-mid flower
I use aloe every other watering at 1/4 tsp per gallon. It is hard to overdo it and the benefits are too many not to use it every watering or every other watering.
@Guitarzan , Red Bud Soil Co in OKC is awesome to deal with. I source alot of inputs from them. Prices are fair and quality is excellent. Chris is a good dude and easy to talk to. I would recommend them to anyone.
Hi @AnthonykLoLo38, welcome to OG! You’ll love it here! Enjoy!
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How much do you add?
2 - 4 Tablespoons per 1 gallon of water. Soil inoculant and/or plant spray, I sprayed weekly last year. Hope this helps, SS/BW…mister
Hi Upstate! I think LABs can vary quite a bit depending on the process used to make them. With that said, I generally use about 10ml.
@PlantShepherd excellent, thanks ! @misterbee thankyou too! This year I am making Labs again, and I won’t be afraid to use it. Hopefully I can get on making some IMO this year too.
How do you know if you did it right? I had what looked like Feta cheese last time.
The TOP layer should look like that, it’s the “curd” they speak off. You remove that, crumble it up, put in in you Garden, put in drains to clean/sanitize, feed it to pets/large animals, etc. The “middle layer” is what you want. After that, whatever level I have in a Gallon Jar, I add an EQUAL amount of Blackstrap Molasses (unsulfured), stir with wooden spoon. It will keep about 1 year in a Fridge and about 3 years on a shelf (cool/dark). SS/BW…mister
Dogs love it, and chickens will go absolutely nuts for it!
It really doesn’t taste that bad either