Per gallon? Organic fish bone meal (Dr.Earth, 3-18-0) Kelp meal (Dr.Earth, 6-5-25) Azomite Peruvian seabird guano (sunleaves, 10-10-2) Compost Neem seed meal Any suggestions on amendments to add, or take out of the mix? I think im going to buy a bag of happy frog organic soil, and mix that with coco coir (im not using peat moss, just because of how its harvested) and then adding the amendments. Is this a good idea?
ninja, take some advice from a good man who knows his shit. LD gave me the advice I copied below. I just put this together tonight for my next grow. You will get some ideas of what and how much to add. JaK Let's try this approach........ I use 3 mixes to keep things straight in my old brain. They are as follows: 1. Food Mix 2. Fix-It Mix 3. Mineral Mix Food Mix You want about 2 cups of your food mix - however you get there. You're going to use alfalfa meal, fish meal and bone meal. Mix up a large amount with equal parts (by volume and not by weight) and add 2 cups of this mix to your soil. If you were to decide that you wanted to add canola meal (aka rape seed meal), flax seed meal (aka linseed meal), et al. then add the same volume amount of this to your mix but you're still only going to use 2 cups of the final mix. The total amount that you want to use does not increase - you're simply making your Food Mix more diverse (a worthy goal, IMHO) Fix-It Mix You're using kelp meal and a combination of the neem and karanja meals. Again mix these in equal amounts (by volume) and add 1 - 1.5 cups of this mix to your potting soil. If you were to add crab meal (another good Fix-It component) you would still add the same amount even with the addition of another agent, i.e 1 - 1.5 cups. Mineral Mix You're using Azomite and Green Sand - mix these together like the other mixes and of this mix you'd want to add about 1 cup to your potting soil. If you were to add Limestone (or Oyster Shell Powder) and agricultural Gypsum (both available at Home Depot, BTW) you'd add these minerals by the same volume but you'd still only use 1 cup of however a diverse mix you might come up with. Glacial Rock Dust is different and its application rate is 1 cup to 1 c.f. of potting irrespective of the other minerals you decide to go with. All the amounts above on all of the mixes are for 1 c.f. of potting soil or 7.5 gallons (allegedly)
just to be clear, the +rep goes to LD for that, ninja. He's the guy that helped me out with that. Working on it right now. JaK