True Living Organics - The Ultimate Guide to Growing All-Natural Marijuana Indoors (2012)

Down to Earth’s Humic Acid Ore can always be found in my grow room
Humic Acid Ore is very interesting, and I use the granular version made by Down to Earth. This is
really a catalyst that aids in the absorption of micronutrients, phosphorus and potassium. It also acts
like a wetting agent, allowing water to penetrate and permeate the soil mix extremely efficiently. This
makes for excellent soil structure and enhances soil tilth as well. This also seems to lower the pH of
the soil mix slightly, but if it is used at my suggested ratios this should not be a major problem.
Alfalfa meal or pellets are an awesome source of nitrogen, and alfalfa is super bio friendly due to its
beautiful carbon to nitrogen ratio, although this results in rapid decomposition (cooking) that you
don’t really want happening with living roots on the scene. Rapid decomposition is a great thing, you
just don’t want it happening around living roots is all; that is why these things need to be composted
or cooked first before living roots get to them.
Make sure if you use the pellets of alfalfa they are clean of any kind of additives. Alfalfa brings
many trace and micronutrients to the table, as well as an exotic, all-natural growth enhancer called
Triacantanol that may also help fight off parasitic fungi. I feed this stuff to my worms, top dress with it
(which means to add a layer to the top of soil) and use it in teas almost always. Alfalfa is one of the
cornerstone elements of TLO soil mix going super natural.
Alfalfa pellets, once composted, bring loads of lovely nitrogen to your soil mix