The "Revs" Soil Mix

Wee Roid, I have never posted or voiced assumptions or judgements on your character and I am thanking you to not do so again.

Btw, i did not make an assumption that the cartoon is alternative lifestyle oriented, I just thought it was humorous and not in a snarky or rancorous way.

Also, the neighborhood in which I reside is a harmonious mix of homo and hetero. About 70 to 30 in the favor of the gays. We all get along !

 

It completely exists. This whole section is dedicated to just that. We make soil, hit it with the occasional aerated compost tea for innoculation, and a little fermented plant extract for a fertilizing tea. Instead of following the Rev and buying whatever he lists on his little amended FoxFarm recipe, take the time to learn the reasons why and build your own on the cheap.

Once you score some peat and some quality EWC, you will be well on your way. I'm not figuring out anymore ratios for anyone unless they have already bought their stuff (ZeroShadow).

 

MIW I am usually able to comprehend your posts but im confused? Am I bringing myself further down with attacks on my group? another group? maybe a group of imaginary friends possum38north's art characterizes? making it less imaginary? or perhaps more imaginary? OK I think I get it. Next time a possum comes sniffing around in my garbage, I won't give it a bowl of milk and invite it to birth its younglings in there. Am I on the right track?

 

Here ya go aptoker13. This was a post or pm sent to a member and he gladly posted the response. Hope this helps.
LD inspired my amendment mix below. I loaded up four 3 gallon containers with this. Just before I put it together I happened on a box of Dr Earth Soft Rock Phosphate(SRP). I added it to the mineral mix (Azomite and Green Sand in equal amounts) that LD suggested.

However, LD suggested using the Glacial Rock Dust at a seperate rate of 1 cup/cuft soil. Should I have used the SRP at the same rate as his suggested mineral mix or the rate of the glacial rock dust. This is just some input I would like for future grows as I want to get this formula nailed down and work it around the edges to fine tune it along with my other liquid minerals/nutes (seaweed/fish, TM 7, etc).

JaK


Per LD (thx, +rep and all that, again, for the help with this, LD):

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).

HTH

LD