Any of you blades have any good homemade soil recipies? I just started experimenting a bit. I used 30% humus/manure mixture from Earthgro, 30%perlite, 30% recycled FoxFarm Ocean Forest and 10% new Ocean Forest. I am currently 3 weeks into flowering and the plants seem to be doing great. Very very green lush green growth. No negetive signs so far at all. I just fertilized for the first time at full strength tonight. Will have to wait and see how it goes.
1 bale Promix HP 2 bags FFOF 1 cuft coir 4 gallons EWC That's what I use for my base mix, which is what I think you're referring to? I amend my base mix with the following: alfalfa meal azomite beneficial bacterias blood meal bone meal diatomaceous earth dolomite lime dry molasses worm castings greensand guanos (N, P, seabird) kelp meal leonardite rice flour yucca
4 parts 100% organic potting soil 3 parts sphagnum moss 2 parts worm castings 1 or more parts perlite 1 or more parts clean sand Supplement with bat guano, sea kelp, and/or fish emulsion if you want Make sure none of these ingredients has time-released ferts (careful, Miracle Gro adds ferts to its moss and perlite)
Hey thanks guys thanks for all the input. I am definatly going to continue down the path of making my own soil instead of just buying FFOF. I don't think I want to go down the route of adding so many different things to it though. I just want a good organic soil thats not too expensive and hopefully my ferts can continue to pick up what the soil leaves off. So when you add all these extras to the soil do you really scale back your liquid ferts? Just watch the plants and add whats needed? So far the mix that I started with seems to be doing awesome. The last grow I just used the FFOF/perlite mix and that worked good but I can already tell that the plants are responding even better to this new mixture. Hey Toasty what kind of organic soil do you use or do you compost your own?
Cheap? Bale of peat from Lowes - $15 Big bag of perlite - $20 EWC - $15 Then just add your amendments.
If your asking what I use its FoxFarms. If you just answered my question with your question thanks for the response
Or this, ^^^ with no amendments and your FF nutes. You will need some dolomite lime though, for this or any peat based mix. $5 for a 40lb bag. Wet
Oh, yeah. Lime. I knew I was forgetting something. Don't quote me, but I think the ratio is 1 tbs per gallon of medium.