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Crazy 101

Know what you’re doing.
And why.

101 questions worth asking about your grow.

Choose a question to explore its topic guide.

101 questions

Getting started

  1. Where should I start with my grow?
  2. What should I know before choosing a feed?
  3. What is already in my growing medium?
  4. How do I describe my current feeding routine?
  5. Do I need the whole Crazy Hills range?
  6. Can I keep the base nutrients I already like?
  7. How do I compare two feeding routines?
  8. What should I record before changing anything?
  9. How do I run a useful small trial?
  10. When should I ask for help?

Natural growing & living soil

  1. What makes soil living?
  2. Is organic growing just using organic fertiliser?
  3. What does feeding the soil mean?
  4. What do microorganisms need to work?
  5. Does adding microbes create living soil?
  6. Does living soil need liquid nutrients?
  7. How does a mature bed differ from a fresh pot?
  8. What does organic matter contribute?
  9. Can I add too much organic feed?
  10. What does buffering mean?
  11. Can organic and mineral approaches overlap?

Roots, pots & watering

  1. Why do roots need air?
  2. How does a medium hold water?
  3. Why does pot size matter?
  4. Why does container height matter?
  5. Does a small plant need the same watering as a mature one?
  6. Can someone else’s watering calendar work for me?
  7. What should I check before blaming the feed?
  8. What happens when the root zone stays saturated?
  9. What should I record about watering?
  10. How do roots and the growing medium work together?

Water & pH

  1. What is in my tap water?
  2. What does pH measure?
  3. What is alkalinity?
  4. Are hardness and alkalinity the same?
  5. Can two waters with the same pH behave differently?
  6. Does concentrate pH tell me the pH of my feed?
  7. When should I measure the complete mix?
  8. Do organic growers need to measure pH?
  9. Does every watering need pH adjustment?
  10. Is runoff pH the same as a growing-medium test?

Feeding & EC

  1. What does an EC meter measure?
  2. Does EC show which nutrients are present?
  3. Does EC describe the whole organic nutrient supply?
  4. Should I measure source water separately?
  5. Are ppm and EC interchangeable?
  6. What is the difference between ml/L and total product used?
  7. Does feeding mean every watering?
  8. Why should I check the chart version?
  9. How does my medium change the feeding strength?
  10. Can a feeding chart account for everything in my grow?

Growth, flowering & supplements

  1. What does nitrogen do in the plant?
  2. Does flowering mean stopping nitrogen?
  3. What does phosphorus do?
  4. What does potassium do?
  5. Does more PK automatically improve flowering?
  6. What does calcium contribute?
  7. What does magnesium contribute?
  8. Does growing under LEDs automatically mean adding CalMag?
  9. Can water already supply calcium and magnesium?
  10. How do I check whether supplements overlap?

Biostimulants & biology

  1. What is a biostimulant?
  2. Does a biostimulant replace base nutrition?
  3. Why combine several ingredient groups?
  4. Does every ingredient need a separate bottle?
  5. What is the difference between introducing microbes and feeding them?
  6. Are Trichoderma and mycorrhiza the same?
  7. Does every microorganism do the same thing?
  8. Why do microbial storage instructions matter?
  9. Can a mixing test establish biological compatibility?
  10. How do I evaluate a new input fairly?

Ingredients & processing

  1. What does seaweed contribute to a formulation?
  2. Why does the seaweed species matter?
  3. How does extraction change an ingredient?
  4. Does cold-processed automatically mean better?
  5. What is a protein hydrolysate?
  6. Are free and total amino acids the same measure?
  7. What are humic materials?
  8. What are fulvic materials?
  9. What does beet vinasse contribute?
  10. What is corn steep liquor?

Reading the grow

  1. Does a marked leaf identify a deficiency?
  2. What changed before the symptom appeared?
  3. Which leaves are affected?
  4. What should I photograph when asking for help?
  5. Why look at the roots as well as the leaves?
  6. How do light and watering affect the picture?
  7. What does humidity tell me without temperature?
  8. What is VPD?
  9. How do I check what light reaches the canopy?
  10. Why change one relevant thing at a time?

The run & the finished crop

  1. How much product will I use across the run?
  2. How does feed frequency change consumption?
  3. How do I account for a once-weekly product?
  4. What is the difference between consumption cost and purchase cost?
  5. How should I account for leftovers?
  6. What should I measure in a trial?
  7. Why record unchanged or disappointing results?
  8. What can one grower’s experience establish?
  9. Why is drying part of the grow?
  10. What belongs to the plant, environment and grower as well as the feed?