It's pretty easy to make you own soil and you have most of the ingredients already. Take 2 c.f. of peat moss or coco coir, 1 c.f. of perlite (or pumice) and 1 c.f. of earthworm castings. There's 4 c.f. or 'about' 30 gallons. These numbers are for 1 c.f. ('about' 7.5 gallons) of your potting soil mix: 1 cup of kelp meal 1 cup of alfalfa meal 1.5 cups of Azomite (that's usually the easiest to find for most folks) 1 cup bone meal (steamed is usually easier to breakdown by the microbes) 1/2 cup of limestone or oyster shell powder (calcium carbonate - no magnesium) If you opt for dolomite lime then others will be better able to give you the appropriate amount. Add some mycorrhizal fungi to your mix and Viola! You now have a viable soil that can be 're-cycled' over and over by amending with earthworm castings, seed meals, etc. Pretty cheap and far better than grow store bags of dirt. HTH LD
Howmanymoreyrs, Thank you for the posts, you picked some great ones. If you can find the links I will add them to the top. I messaged you about it, it would be really cool of you. I think I know what happens to most of the people that read this because the same happened to me. You get lost in the info, and before you know it hours have passed. Will be updating the links very soon, I would like to get all the necesary ingredients a link.
Wow, lots of good info there! Too much to read it all, haha, but I'm kinda limited in resourced around here, can't seem to find places that carry stuff like the kelp and alfalfa meals, right now best thing I've got going so far is some worm castings(took me forever to finally find someplace that has them!), then the miracle gro organics choice bone meal and blood meal. So I'm growing mine in a soil thats mostly peat with some perlite and lime mixed in, then throwing in a small scoop of both meals and several scoops of castings, watering with molasses water, and hoping its good enough, lol. Although I did finally find a place that carries Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil mix, but I've got two bags of my current soil to finish first, so I'm waiting on that one.
read through the thread a little. the links are embedded in the body of the copied posts this is, after all, a continually developing thread as posts are added and information is uncovered...never mind the knowledge that continually rains down from LD's glorious, glorious brain.
Let's start with some basics first. This is a trial run and to see if the links post ok. If so, read thru the links to get the gist of the dialog. For any link provided there may be valuable information imbedded further in the thread. Enjoy. An Organic Soil Mix of Mine http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/336320-organic-soil-mix-mine.html
Evaluating N-P-K Numbers With Organic Fertilizers http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/336810-evaluating-n-p-k-numbers-organic-fertilizers.html
I'll let it rest for a spell and see how this is digested and if in a format that's useful to folks..... Plenty more to follow if all ok.
Possuum, Thanks for the great info and links. To be honest, I have been hitting my stash jar a bit too hard lately it seems. I posted this thread and forgot to make all but the first post visible to everyone until a few days ago, so this thread was missing alot. Should be fixed and ready for some updating.
LOL...it's all good 'bro. There's some folks thirsting for a drink of water from "the spring of knowledge" and I kinda got it you were "busy" so-to-speak. Just as a side note, try a good sativa dom strain...you'll get more stuff done. LOL. And p.s. one of the reasons I harvest "cloudy", which is anathema to most folks, is to keep that couch lock off'n me! LOL! Peace man and we'll be tuning in
Good Soil Mix - Thought on Flushing http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-...lushing-your-thoughts-please.html#post7700342 Humic/Fulvic Acid http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/667784-baking-soda-vinegar-ph-adjustment.html#post8361986 Natural Sourced Humus/Soil Mix http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/620897-too-much-humic-acid.html#post7753780 http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/620897-too-much-humic-acid.html#post7754307 Propagating Indigenous Microbes http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/620897-too-much-humic-acid.html#post7754081 Sprouted Seed FPE http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/684300-quinoa-organic-amendment.html#post8620455 http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/684300-quinoa-organic-amendment.html#post8621804 Nutrient Compost Tea (Not AACT) http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-...-schedule-little-help-please.html#post8549888 Cloning http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-growing/684390-organic-cloning.html#post8592638 Worm Info http://forum.grasscity.com/organic-...ake-your-own-worm-castings-8.html#post8659938
Gil Carandang's seminar @ Hawaii it's not a LD's quote per se, but he was at another seminar just like this one and called a "life changing" experience