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Nice! All that life must make some sweet buds, love the forest floor thing under the leaves, it's like Gold!I literally grab topsoil from under the leaves in my forest and then add
Dr Earth veg
Espoma Plantone
Handful of Perlite
Handful of Peat
...that's it :)
I re-use the soil after amendment with same, just smaller amounts...depends how far i took the plant that was in that soil. I also leave a bunch of clippings, all the roots in it for additional organic matter.
Last year i got 5 recycles.
I dont even top dress the 5gal buckets during grow. The mounds can go 2-3months before top dressing and that's only for nitrogen usually. Yes, it's as organic as you can possibly get and creates insane smoke.Nice! All that life must make some sweet buds, love the forest floor thing under the leaves, it's like Gold!
WTH? "Let's slow it down. Let's slow it waaaaaay down"PLEASE!! What are peoples thoughts on this soil mix and general plant regimen? Also, how many cuft should I calculate to fill my 4x4 from grassroots. For a no-till living soil system? Im thinking 19cuft...
Thank you for your time.
4x4 Raised Bed Organic No Till
5 Gal Compost Tea:
1. Few Handfuls of compost in a mesh strainer bag
2. 4-5 cups of vermicompost? 5-10% of total tea maybe less if using other nutrients
3. fish and kelp blend few tablespoons per 5gal
4. One tablespoon of Insect Frass per 5gal
5. One Tablespoon of DTE Acid Mix
5. 1-2 tablespoons of Molasses per 5gal
6. Silica (use as directed but only in Veg)
Microbes:
Sprinkle Recharge and White Shark into the soil mixture
AND
Sprinkle a pinch onto the soil surfae before each watering and feeding
Start Mammoth P. the last week of Veg and all of Flower
Soil Makeup:
20% Peat Moss
20% Coco Coir
25% compost
20% black lava rock
15% Rice Hulls
Minerals:
Azomite- 1/3pound per cuft
Greensand - 1/3pound per cuft
Rock Phosphate - 1 to 1.25 pounds per cuft
Lanbeinite - 1/2 pound per cuft
Kelp Meal - .21pounds per cuft OR ACTUALLY 1/2 cup per cuft
Fish Bone Meal - 1/4 cup per cuft
Fish Meal - 1/4 cup per cuft
Neem Seed Meal - 1/2 cup per cuft
Feather Meal - 1/4 cup per cuft
Blood Meal - 1/4 cup per cuft
Crab Meal - 1/2 cup per cuft
Alfalfa Meal - 1 cup per cuft
Oyster Shell - 1 cup per cuft
Once mixed fill 4x4 and cover with cover crop then Alfalfa straw. Cook for 1 month, water with 3 to 5 gal every three days
Fertilizer Regimine:
Every Third Watering Seed Sprout Tea - 2oz of organic corn kernels soaked for 12 hrs in water, drain and store in a jar for up to 2 weeks. Blend in a couple cups of water. Finally dilute with 2gal of water, and add 1 tablespoon of kelp meal
Every Third Watering Compost Tea
Every Third Watering Coconut Water
Dry Top Dressings:
DTE Rose and Flower mix 1/2 cup per 10gal of soil at firt sign of flower, and AGAIN 4weeks later
DTE BioLive 1/2-3/4cup per 10gal of soil to surface after transplanting new clones in to soil. 1/2cup if seedling directly after harvest, 1cup if its been a while
After harvest, top dress with compost and azomite, then cover crop
RESART THE CYCLE WITH CLOMES OR SEEDLINGS!!
Nice! Can you share ratio's or thereabouts?I literally grab topsoil from under the leaves in my forest and then add
Dr Earth veg
Espoma Plantone
Handful of Perlite
Handful of Peat
...that's it :)
I re-use the soil after amendment with same, just smaller amounts...depends how far i took the plant that was in that soil. I also leave a bunch of clippings, all the roots in it for additional organic matter.
Last year i got 5 recycles.
Nice! Can you share ratio's or thereabouts?
Hi folks, new lurker here. Tried one indoor crop last summer and I got burned out trying to manage nutes and PPM levels, so I'll be using organic living soil for all my future grows.and if outside, no worms will visit you, if you have perlite. they dont like it. it hurts em.
Hi folks, new lurker here. Tried one indoor crop last summer and I got burned out trying to manage nutes and PPM levels, so I'll be using organic living soil for all my future grows.
I wondered about the statement above, and looked up in Rev's TLO book -
he loves perlite, and also loves earthworms, so it looks like that they are compatible.
Any other opinions?
I think this should work although it may take some tweaking to get your pH in range. I also think you will have a hard time growing beans/peas in Nitrogen rich soil but it can work. Are you unable to buy peat or do you not want to use it? You also may run into problems with calcium unless you get some gypsum or another source. Not seeing enough in your mix.What’s the thaight I don’t think I need lime like everyone does as it’s mineral dense and not peat
https://www.dalefootcomposts.co.uk/products/wool-compost-for-tomatoes.p.aspx at 40% this compost
worm shit 20%and cow compost 10%!making 30% total
Air lava rock 30%
Azomite 1/2 cup
Kelp 1/2cup
Neem 1/2cup
Malted barley 1/2 cup
Myc fungal innoculation
Bacterial innoculation
Biochar
Hemp mulch
Hydrate with fulvic fish hydrolysate and em1
Covercrop clover beans/peas daikon radish and carrot borrage chia seed and marigolds and alfalfa
Any input ?
Here goes my soil mix
I have all the same things except my potting soil base in from the EU. Plus biochar, burnt rice husks, crustaceon shells, aloe, gypsum, volcanic rock dust and organic compost. I am using and liking Organics terp tea
need a pocket full of money for that mix !! sure does sound good - no nutrients need with this mixBiochar,
Peat Moss,
Fish Compost,
Earthworm Castings,
Rice Hulls,
Pumice,
Glacial Rock Dust,
Basalt,
Soft Rock Phosphate,
Oyster Shell Powder,
Organic Alfalfa Meal,
Organic Fish Bone Meal,
Organic Crustacean Meal,
Kelp Meal,
Neem Cake,
Karanja Cake,
Organic Fish Meal,
Organic Feather Meal,
Organic Steamed Bone Meal,
Lime,
Mycorrhiza
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