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Hello fellow farmers! I am in the planning stages of my first organic grow, and I wanted to run some things by you fine folks who have a ton more experience than me. I want to start with a nicely amended soil that will help feed my ladies throughout their life, and feed only with ACT's or nutrient teas.
I found a fairly simple soil and tea recipe, and added some flair to it here and there, so let me know what you think.
I'll start my seedlings off in Happy Frog, but once they are ready to be re-potted I will move them up to the soil mix below:
6 parts Fox Farm Ocean Forest
2 parts perlite
2 parts earthworm castings
Amendments per gallon of above mix:
2 TBS gypsum
1 TBS bone meal
2 TBS Azomite
2 TBS Humic Acid
Is that a solid recipe? Am I too heavy or light anywhere? I was thinking I could add some guano, but as you'll see below that is what I'll be making teas with, and I don't want to start with a ton of N as you can always add more but never take away!
As far as the Tea goes....I found this on icmag, this is the recipe unchanged...although I would probably occasionally add some alfalfa during flower, as well as some epsom salt every now and then...(perhaps 1 TBS per gallon of water for the epsom??) perhaps do one or two feedings with bone meal for a calcium boost during veg? I know the soil might be heavy on the ca already, but I had a calcium defiency on my first grow in 2/4 plants and it bummed me out because I couldn't correct it/didn't know what it was until too late. So maybe I'm going to heavy there?
Veg mix-
1/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano (PSG)
1/3 cup High N Bat Guano (Mexican)
1/3 cup Earth Worm Castings (EWC)
(That makes the "dry mix". You can make all you want and save it to use later.)
Mix with water @ 1 cup of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Maxicrop or Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed.
5 tsp. Black Strap Molasses
Use it to water with every 3rd watering.
Flowering nute tea mix:
2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano
2/3 cup Earth Worm Castings
2/3 cup High P Guano (Indonesian or Jamaican)
(That makes the "dry mix". You can make all you want and save it to use later.)
Mix with water @ 2 cups of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed.
5 tsp. Black Strap Molasses
Use it to water with EVERY watering.
Here, I don't know if I would go with every watering during flower...what do you guys think? Also, is 5TBS of the liquid seaweed overkill? Seems like A LOT! As always I appreciate any and all feedback from you fine folks!
I found a fairly simple soil and tea recipe, and added some flair to it here and there, so let me know what you think.
I'll start my seedlings off in Happy Frog, but once they are ready to be re-potted I will move them up to the soil mix below:
6 parts Fox Farm Ocean Forest
2 parts perlite
2 parts earthworm castings
Amendments per gallon of above mix:
2 TBS gypsum
1 TBS bone meal
2 TBS Azomite
2 TBS Humic Acid
Is that a solid recipe? Am I too heavy or light anywhere? I was thinking I could add some guano, but as you'll see below that is what I'll be making teas with, and I don't want to start with a ton of N as you can always add more but never take away!
As far as the Tea goes....I found this on icmag, this is the recipe unchanged...although I would probably occasionally add some alfalfa during flower, as well as some epsom salt every now and then...(perhaps 1 TBS per gallon of water for the epsom??) perhaps do one or two feedings with bone meal for a calcium boost during veg? I know the soil might be heavy on the ca already, but I had a calcium defiency on my first grow in 2/4 plants and it bummed me out because I couldn't correct it/didn't know what it was until too late. So maybe I'm going to heavy there?
Veg mix-
1/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano (PSG)
1/3 cup High N Bat Guano (Mexican)
1/3 cup Earth Worm Castings (EWC)
(That makes the "dry mix". You can make all you want and save it to use later.)
Mix with water @ 1 cup of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Maxicrop or Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed.
5 tsp. Black Strap Molasses
Use it to water with every 3rd watering.
Flowering nute tea mix:
2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano
2/3 cup Earth Worm Castings
2/3 cup High P Guano (Indonesian or Jamaican)
(That makes the "dry mix". You can make all you want and save it to use later.)
Mix with water @ 2 cups of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed.
5 tsp. Black Strap Molasses
Use it to water with EVERY watering.
Here, I don't know if I would go with every watering during flower...what do you guys think? Also, is 5TBS of the liquid seaweed overkill? Seems like A LOT! As always I appreciate any and all feedback from you fine folks!