I bought a boatload of Timberline Potting Soil for dirt cheap at Lowes for my future grow. It's just a basic soil with no added fertilizer/supplements. I would just like to know what kind of additives I should use to mix with the soil to grow a healthy plant. I also plan to use 20-20-20 and 10-30-10 fertilizers during the grow phases. Here's what I bought, just for reference: http://www.lowes.com/pd_92434-29629-NA_0__?productId=3261515
My specific recipe is in my journal, would suggest perlite, kelp meal, glacial rock dust, espoma tomato tone, and wormcastings. Neem meal is a great addition too. Make yourself a supersoil
I agree with not sure. That sounds like good ingredients although I chose bat guano for my P supplement.
Good choice I agree with this as well. I just prefer to use guano in a compost tea, either way works fine though.
For the most basic, grab a simple fert in those amounts you indicate. Miracle Grow has produced a helluva lotta buds!!!
I've often wondered about these compost teas. I'm using organic nutes and I thought it was the same but I was told not. Do you have any info or could you point me in the right direction of a good source for these? Thanks.
http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/1116550-easy-organic-soil-mix-beginners.html/page-1 Use your off the shelf soil as your base and amend as you can find them..
Some purists wouldn't call my grow organic because some of the things I use don't meet certain requirements (lime, pro-tekt, cal-mag), when it comes to caretakers and medicine I can understand it being an important distinction. When I use the term "organic" I'm referring to the basic method of keeping healthy, nutrient-rich, biologically active soil. Whatever specific products are used above and beyond that are up to the individual as everybody has different preferences. http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/1110985-act-aerated-compost-tea.html www.microbeorganics.com And there's a link in the first post on the third page of my journal that I would recommend, my brewing process is described in detail too . Much thanks to the folks in the organics forum, they've been very helpful to me.
Well I checked the link that you posted. That is a lot of mother effing information lol. I couldn't find the link in your journal on the third page. I clicked the journal in your signature. I'm on my first grow, so I think I'll wait a while before I try to get the hang of making compost and stuff. Your grow though, holy shit and meatballs lol. It must be like paradise every time you walk into your grow room. Very very nice.
I'm using around 160 pounds of dirt total to mix, are there any suggested ratios of how much supplement I should put in per pound? So lets say how much perlite, kelp meal, glacial rock dust, tomato tone, ewc, neem meal, etc. would I want to use in the total soil mix if I were to theoretically use it all together?
Yea, these recipes go by the cubic ft. but I don't know what 160 lbs of dirt comes to. When I did my garden last year I replaced the topsoil and it was about 1 cubic yard of dirt or 27 cu ft. So I needed 4 cups per cu ft which comes to 6.75 gal of amendment. Meals = 4-6 cups per cu ft Rock dust = 4 cups per cu ft If outdoors then no need for perlite, get yourself $20 worth of redworms instead http://unclejimswormfarm.com/ Whoops, my bad, it was page 2 lol http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/801593-soil-food-web-gardeningwith-compost-teas.html Lots of good info in that link, including the full text of "Teaming with microbes" ...an excellent book that I bought anyway
You only wanna do around 2-3 cups per cu foot of total amendments, not each amendment. Also...gypsum and oyster shell flour are great mineral sources as well.
