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Hello, thcfarmers! Been growing organically for a long time now but i am new to no-till. been reading up on coot's mix and I was really pleased by the soil tests reported from the South fork coot's mix from rare earth so I'm trying to replicate that. here is what i'm thinking:
10cuft total
3cf premier peat(no added anything, just peat)
3cf grow stones(cant get pumice here)
3cf humus consisting of 2/3 worm gold plus and 1/3 malibu compost
1cf biochar activated with heavy fungal castings(kis) and biorighteous tea
5 cups of 50/50 neem/karajana meal
5 cups crustacean meal
5 cups kelp meal
10 cups glacial rock dust
10 cups basalt
and it gets a little tricky here b/c in the 2.1 cuft of wormgold is 3% each of both Elemite and Kelzyme. All i really can find on the Elemite is that its a sodium-calcium-aluminosilicate, so like bentonite/azomite marketed as better than azomite. the Kelzyme is mined fossilized kelp comes in around 45% calcium carbonate and 30% calcium oxide plus micro nutrients. if calculated by weight it comes to roughly 2.25 cups a bag or 6.75 total for each. So i figure it'll take
3.25 cups oyster shell meal
3.25 cups calcium bentonite(or should i use azomite, as i have it on hand?)
mix it and let it sit for a week or two then send some in for testing to get the right boron/manganese/copper/zinc.
here's some worries i have:
that it's totally crazy that i would mix the stuff then get it tested.. but coot's mix seams tried.. thoughts?
the Ph is gonna be 7.0 or higher so leave out biochar?
10cuft total
3cf premier peat(no added anything, just peat)
3cf grow stones(cant get pumice here)
3cf humus consisting of 2/3 worm gold plus and 1/3 malibu compost
1cf biochar activated with heavy fungal castings(kis) and biorighteous tea
5 cups of 50/50 neem/karajana meal
5 cups crustacean meal
5 cups kelp meal
10 cups glacial rock dust
10 cups basalt
and it gets a little tricky here b/c in the 2.1 cuft of wormgold is 3% each of both Elemite and Kelzyme. All i really can find on the Elemite is that its a sodium-calcium-aluminosilicate, so like bentonite/azomite marketed as better than azomite. the Kelzyme is mined fossilized kelp comes in around 45% calcium carbonate and 30% calcium oxide plus micro nutrients. if calculated by weight it comes to roughly 2.25 cups a bag or 6.75 total for each. So i figure it'll take
3.25 cups oyster shell meal
3.25 cups calcium bentonite(or should i use azomite, as i have it on hand?)
mix it and let it sit for a week or two then send some in for testing to get the right boron/manganese/copper/zinc.
here's some worries i have:
that it's totally crazy that i would mix the stuff then get it tested.. but coot's mix seams tried.. thoughts?
the Ph is gonna be 7.0 or higher so leave out biochar?