Post your Organic Soil Mix

bullfrog · Jan 26, 2019

Using everything on this list to re-veg an wtc auto-flower that was formerly in coco to soil. Going to eventually throw some mozz in some as well:
Roots Organic Soil
Biobizz Light-Mix soil
Organic Earthworm Castings
Fish Bone Meal
Dolomite Lime
Azomite
Happy Frog Blood Meal
Happy Frog Bat Guano (0-5-0)
Epsom Salt
Perlite
Horse and Goose manure

justiceman · Jan 29, 2019

brian77 said:
My first every grow with using nothing but this. Going well

Only Compost?! It must have some nice aeration going on. Awesome! :smoking:

TerpyTyrone · Jan 29, 2019

bullfrog said:
Using everything on this list to re-veg an wtc auto-flower that was formerly in coco to soil. Going to eventually throw some mozz in some as well:
Roots Organic Soil
Biobizz Light-Mix soil
Organic Earthworm Castings
Fish Bone Meal
Dolomite Lime
Azomite
Happy Frog Blood Meal
Happy Frog Bat Guano (0-5-0)
Epsom Salt
Perlite
Horse and Goose manure

Reveg an auto?

TerpyTyrone · Jan 29, 2019

brian77 said:
My first every grow with using nothing but this. Going well

Growing some monsters @Greatlakes , great thread. I plan on trying some compost. Steer. Myself.

bullfrog · Jan 29, 2019

TerpyTyrone said:
Reveg an auto?

Yeah. Most people just chop them I guess.

TerpyTyrone · Jan 29, 2019

bullfrog said:
Yeah. Most people just chop them I guess.

R u experimenting? Its probably gonna herm on ya

bullfrog · Jan 29, 2019

justiceman said:
Only Compost?! It must have some nice aeration going on. Awesome! :smoking:

Yeah there is a decent amount of perlite and as long as the ph is right it grows other plants really well.

bullfrog · Jan 29, 2019

TerpyTyrone said:
R u experimenting? Its probably gonna herm on ya

Really just using it to test the soil before these seeds pop, but I was hoping it would make it...

TerpyTyrone · Jan 29, 2019

bullfrog said:
Really just using it to test the soil before these seeds pop, but I was hoping it would make it...

Autos have a time cycle/life span. Messinh with it will cause it to herm out and pollinate any other females. Watch out

TerpyTyrone · Jan 29, 2019

I kniw From experience. Playing with it too much is not good.
My mom was right!!

bullfrog · Jan 29, 2019

TerpyTyrone said:
Autos have a time cycle/life span. Messinh with it will cause it to herm out and pollinate any other females. Watch out

I knew a bit about them before I started to save this white tahoe cookies, I just slapped under the blues, into some soil as fast as I could, hoping the best. I haven't messed with af's a lot so I just thought it would be a cool experiment to get the pallet box calibrated as well. This is a new grow so if it herms then it's no real loss as it was free, and hopefully I'll have seedlings by then, of which the seeds were also free. I'm waiting before I plant my other seeds that I actually paid for. Not really worried at this point and so far the soil is pulling it back despite the stress it has suffered and I'm not seeing any signs of the pistols she does have changing to full on green and fat, but I'm not holding my breath either way. I have sort of a diary going on so I'll be updating that as she grows back. This was just to post my soil mix. Cheers.

Skunker762 · Mar 3, 2019

So I've been using Subs super soil with great results but I'm trying to focus more on using true living soil as my medium.

This is the soil mix I've come up with but I wanted to run it by you guys in here before I use it. In case something needs to be changed.

Any and all input would be great!

Here's the Mix(makes 18 5 gallon pots)
Promix bx with Mycorrhyzae or Peat Moss with added pumice: 3.8 cubic ft
Compost: 3 cubic ft
Mushroom Compost: 1.5 cubic ft

Earth Worm Castings: 10lbs per bag
Bio-Live: 4 1/2 cups
Kelp Meal: 4 1/2 cups
Neem Meal: 4 1/2 cups
Malted Barley: 4 1/2 cups
Gypsum: 3 cups
Basalt: 10 cups
Bio-Char: 18 cups

Look OK? Suggestions to make it better?

bullfrog · Mar 3, 2019

Skunker762 said:
So I've been using Subs super soil with great results but I'm trying to focus more on using true living soil as my medium.

This is the soil mix I've come up with but I wanted to run it by you guys in here before I use it. In case something needs to be changed.

Any and all input would be great!

Here's the Mix(makes 18 5 gallon pots)
Promix bx with Mycorrhyzae or Peat Moss with added pumice: 3.8 cubic ft
Compost: 3 cubic ft
Mushroom Compost: 1.5 cubic ft

Earth Worm Castings: 10lbs per bag
Bio-Live: 4 1/2 cups
Kelp Meal: 4 1/2 cups
Neem Meal: 4 1/2 cups
Malted Barley: 4 1/2 cups
Gypsum: 3 cups
Basalt: 10 cups
Bio-Char: 18 cups

Look OK? Suggestions to make it better?

Just curious; what are the effects of the malted barley. I'm going going to google as well, but I was curious if there was a noticeable terpene change?

Skunker762 · Mar 3, 2019

The malted barley powder basically replaces using sprouted seed barley teas.

Barley contains many of the great enzymes used in expensive bottled nutrients.

Barley Enzymes - amylase, arylsulphatase, β-glucosidase, cellulase, chitinase, dehydrogenase, phosphatase, protease and urease

Winter323 · Mar 18, 2019

Skunker762 said:
So I've been using Subs super soil with great results but I'm trying to focus more on using true living soil as my medium.

This is the soil mix I've come up with but I wanted to run it by you guys in here before I use it. In case something needs to be changed.

Any and all input would be great!

Here's the Mix(makes 18 5 gallon pots)
Promix bx with Mycorrhyzae or Peat Moss with added pumice: 3.8 cubic ft
Compost: 3 cubic ft
Mushroom Compost: 1.5 cubic ft

Earth Worm Castings: 10lbs per bag
Bio-Live: 4 1/2 cups
Kelp Meal: 4 1/2 cups
Neem Meal: 4 1/2 cups
Malted Barley: 4 1/2 cups
Gypsum: 3 cups
Basalt: 10 cups
Bio-Char: 18 cups

Look OK? Suggestions to make it better?

Its not too bad, pretty much similar to the coot/ mountainorganics mix of the last several years. Some things to keep in mind, the promix bale expands to like 8 cubic ft from 3.8 compressed, which will throw you ratios off. It would be ideal if you could just find some decent homegrown castings and replace most of your compost, which will also provide worms and probably also some bugs lol.

I would hold off doing too much of the kelp, neem, malted barley etc and save them for the occasional teas, some is alright but most people have one away with those.

Look at the new formulations on the mountainorganics website if you want to see what hes been messing with recently but keep in mind his mixes are more aimed at newbies who want an easy mix they dont have to do anyhting with besides using his foliars, which I have found to be horrible, I wont use anything with Alfalfa though. Your mix is similar to his ratios a few years ago but you are missing the aeration which is one of their more recent developments. I find their mix from last year to be lacking in flavor when I tried going heavy with the BU compost (tastes like BUUF)...so I am going back to old methods.

I have been trying to mix different micro sources like Gypsum, dolomite, azomite, different kinds of rockdust, crushed oyster shells etc, but ultimately your tea game will determine how you want to mix trying to balance PH among other things.

Southerner · Apr 27, 2019

This is the mix I am thinking about doing this year, any advice and helpful critiques are welcome! I've been doing organics for a while, but my soil mix has gotten way too complex as I have sorta "collected" different kinds of amendments of the years. This would be for indoor and I'd like it to carry thru flowering, with the addition of the occasional tea.

50% Peat Moss
20% Oly Mountain Fish Compost
30% Aeration(probably a mix of lava rock/Rice Hulls/Perlite)

1 cup per cubic foot of each:

9-4.5-0 FISH MEAL
3-16-0 FISH BONE MEAL
1-.1-2 KELP
2-.5-2.5 ALFALFA MEAL
3-1-3 INSECT FRASS
Azomite
Gypsum
Oyster Shell Flour

OldSmokie76 · Apr 28, 2019

Southerner said:
This is the mix I am thinking about doing this year, any advice and helpful critiques are welcome! I've been doing organics for a while, but my soil mix has gotten way too complex as I have sorta "collected" different kinds of amendments of the years. This would be for indoor and I'd like it to carry thru flowering, with the addition of the occasional tea.

50% Peat Moss
20% Oly Mountain Fish Compost
30% Aeration(probably a mix of lava rock/Rice Hulls/Perlite)

1 cup per cubic foot of each:

9-4.5-0 FISH MEAL
3-16-0 FISH BONE MEAL
1-.1-2 KELP
2-.5-2.5 ALFALFA MEAL
3-1-3 INSECT FRASS
Azomite
Gypsum
Oyster Shell Flour

I have a base mix that I use across the board, but I've found that bumping the N and K a little more for vegging plants then adding higher P and K for flower is working well. I'm not sure what your transplanting/ pruning schedule is, but I've been using growth stage appropriate soil mixes with some simple success. Not sure if there's solid science about it, but with my process of transplanting it send to do the trick with minimal attention to nutes. Ewc teas once a week paired with only water during veg then ewc high P bat guana teas during flower. Low concentrations on the teas though. Couldn't even tell you what ppm. Depending on the feeding habits of the strain these practices get thru a full cycle very nicely. Your mix seems good. No mykos added? I use granular when transplanting. The ewc teas will help boost the micro life too.

MrChemovar · Jun 24, 2019

I'm 11 days into flower and was wonder what ratios of P to K would be best at? Can't remember where but I recall that the P be twice the amount of K? Help a ninja out if i'm wrong btw as well.

916Fisherman · Jun 24, 2019

Once again tons of great info everyone! I’m doing my first grow in about 8 years and running this one very basic until budget allows for more.

I started with an organic base raised bed potting soil from Home Depot, added some perlite and compost chicken manure to start in 5g pots. Will add more organic base nutrients as they grow and in the bloom stage. Still debating on 100% organic or notation this point.

916Fisherman · Jun 24, 2019

916Fisherman said:
Once again tons of great info everyone! I’m doing my first grow in about 8 years and running this one very basic until budget allows for more.

I started with an organic base raised bed potting soil from Home Depot, added some perlite and compost chicken manure to start in 5g pots. Will add more organic base nutrients as they grow and in the bloom stage. Still debating on 100% organic or notation this point.

And hopefully pick up some worm castings today to add before transplanting

Post your Organic Soil Mix

Post your Organic Soil Mix

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TerpyTyrone

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Southerner

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