Post your Organic Soil Mix

[hawkman]

Tricontinal - Kelp, alalfa meal, enzymes' and humic acid = organic plant growth stimulator. also Massive Bloom (Green Planets' flagship product

 

[legitness]

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.

It’s a compost based of sheeps wool and poo as it’s laced down for bedding then composted bracken and comfrey all which are ca high already so I wondered if I’d need it based if that fact
The ph of it is 6.5 and hold enough for a year of tomato food naturally

I didn’t go for peat this round cause it has no nutritional value except it’s very airated for drainage when adding to ewc but being that the wool bracken is like a sponge more so than peat I didn’t see a need to add any peat and as it will drop the ph and the compost and ewc is 6.5 already do o really need to drop the ph of the soil to add lime to raise it again just for ca which I should already have an Abu dance of ?
Again I am guessing by my own research on the compost here I have used it for years on autos and tomato’s and anything in the garden it is amazing
I am here to learn

(I used coots before and till5 I hit sodium and ca problems in that ca was 12000 in my soil toxicly )

So I’m looking to make my own as coots is all based off his worm cast anyway the cow shit adds diversity and ca again and then worm shit ?

 

[legitness]

It’s a compost based of sheeps wool and poo as it’s laced down for bedding then composted bracken and comfrey all which are ca high already so I wondered if I’d need it based if that fact
The ph of it is 6.5 and hold enough for a year of tomato food naturally

I didn’t go for peat this round cause it has no nutritional value except it’s very airated for drainage when adding to ewc but being that the wool bracken is like a sponge more so than peat I didn’t see a need to add any peat and as it will drop the ph and the compost and ewc is 6.5 already do o really need to drop the ph of the soil to add lime to raise it again just for ca which I should already have an Abu dance of ?
Again I am guessing by my own research on the compost here I have used it for years on autos and tomato’s and anything in the garden it is amazing
I am here to learn

(I used coots before and till5 I hit sodium and ca problems in that ca was 12000 in my soil toxicly )

So I’m looking to make my own as coots is all based off his worm cast anyway the cow shit adds diversity and ca again and then worm shit ?

Blossom end rot occurs when there’s a lack of calcium and appears at the bottom of the tomato as a blackened spot.

When flowers begin to form, feed plants weekly with a liquid tomato feed. If you are growing them in Dalefoot’s Wool Compost for Tomatoes no feed is needed

 

[WookyWooky]

Lol! Thanks. Not sure what makes it so obvious I don't run an organic setup. Actually, I run a certified "clean green" garden. It's the closest certification a cannabis grower can get to "organic" in the state of California. Since cannabis has not been approved by the FDA, technically none of it is "organic" nor can it be. I'd be happy to send you a list of the nutrients and processes I use . Everything I grow is lab tested and sold in legal dispensaries. All of my ashes burn white ;)

Hey Wonder Dawg!! Your babies look amazing!!! I’d be super interested in studying your methods and nutrients. Would you be willing to share? Thanks!!

 

[legitness]

Ewc
Lava
Peat at 1:1:1

bran 1 cup cu f
Malt wheat 1c
Alfalfa 1/4
Microbes and 1cup kelp per 12 cu f not a typo

Rockdust 2cu f
Gypsum 1 c
Oyster 1/4

Wool compost and comfrey

Mix up worms in bam

 

[GreenGalaxyFarm]

54 pages of soil mixes, bout to get lost for 20mins in here

 

[GreenGalaxyFarm]

base for seedling.
coco coir/peat, hydrorokz, generic ''for'' cannabis potting soil mix, worm castings, biochar, humus, black soldier fly frass, epson salts, rock dust, potassium sulphate

soil amendments for veg into flower excluding liquid nutrients carbon and trace amounts of microelements and phytochemicals. elemental blend consisting of.
alfalfa meal, aloe meal, basalt rock dust, ciochar , cannakashi, calcitic lime, copper powder, diatomaceous earth, dolomite lime, fulvic acid, black soldier fly frass, seabird guano, gypsum, humic acid, kelp meal, malted barley, manganese oxide, montmorillonite clay, soft rock phosphate, zeolite.

 

[ArtVandelay]

I prefer the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) method also...

Outdoor autoflower:
25 gal grow bag
Coco coir
Homemade compost
Worm castings
Perlite
Beach sand
Chicken manure compost
Blood n bone meal
Bat guano
Rabbit poop

The last 4 are small amounts.
Bags are topped off in fall and covered in dead leaves. Uncover in spring, topped off, plant again.

 

[DandJGrowManagement]

This is our first "commercial grow"... during germination and seedling we used Espoma Organic Potting Mix with i49 Germ Genie (0-0-5). After transplant to 1g and then 5g we are using:

2 cu. ft. Fox Farm Happy Frog
12 qt. Back to the Roots 6qt Specialty Blend
2 cups Espoma Organic Citrus-tone 5-2-6
4 cups Espoma Organic Soil Acidifier
Touch of Neem Oil for the ("Back To Roots)
pH Balancer
RO Water

Nightime view below - 5 weeks in veg

 

[StanM]

I can’t wrap my head around the idea of buying amended soil for $40 per 1.5 cf bag and having to add anything to it. My solution, Coast of Maine Stonington blend gets poured directly into the grow bag as purchased.

I’m satisfied with the results as I grow medical for myself. As a lazy retired guy this fits my style.

 

[hightech316]

My current soil ;

• 70% Pro-Mix HP
• 20% worm castings
• 10% Bio char

Current Feed / Top feed/ Additional nutrient;

1. Gaia all purpose 4-4-4
2. Gaia power Bloom
3. Trifecta Myco Supreme ( root inoculation )
4. Photosynthesis Plus
5. Kelp meal
6. Cal-Mag ( TPS organic )

I'm sure I'm missing something ....

 

[DandJGrowManagement]

This is our first "commercial grow"... during germination and seedling we used Espoma Organic Potting Mix with i49 Germ Genie (0-0-5). After transplant to 1g and then 5g we are using:

2 cu. ft. Fox Farm Happy Frog
12 qt. Back to the Roots 6qt Specialty Blend
2 cups Espoma Organic Citrus-tone 5-2-6
4 cups Espoma Organic Soil Acidifier
Touch of Neem Oil for the ("Back To Roots)
pH Balancer
RO Water

Nightime view below - 5 weeks in veg

UPDATE: The "Back To The Roots" soil blend is TRASH! full of fungus gnats. It has made our job harder... bringing in ladybugs

 

[Newty]

UPDATE: The "Back To The Roots" soil blend is TRASH! full of fungus gnats. It has made our job harder... bringing in ladybugs

Was the soil wet when you got it?
You didn't see any crawling over the medium and flying out when you opened it?
Just wondering how you didn't notice them before adding it to your mix, larva only lives a few days and when dry even shorter.
Soil would of had to of been wet with living adults and larva in the soil from the start in order for them to still be alive 2 weeks later.

I've never had fungus gnats in my grow area so maybe my information is wrong.
I left a 1/2 bag of soil on my porch and 3 days later they were flying out of it, very noticeable.
I removed it from my property immediately and stripped down and hosed myself down before going back inside.

 

[Natep]

I’ve made soil several times. It is crazy expensive to make a good batch. 1 cuft of pumice is 30 bucks + worm casting + peat moss+ biochar+ craft blend + basalt + +++. Some of this stuff that is 50 bucks for a cuft is a really good deal. If you plan on just dumping a bunch of synthetic nutrients on it? Then there is really no point of assembling a soil. Just buy prolix or sunshine # 4.

 

[DandJGrowManagement]

Was the soil wet when you got it?
You didn't see any crawling over the medium and flying out when you opened it?
Just wondering how you didn't notice them before adding it to your mix, larva only lives a few days and when dry even shorter.
Soil would of had to of been wet with living adults and larva in the soil from the start in order for them to still be alive 2 weeks later.

I've never had fungus gnats in my grow area so maybe my information is wrong.
I left a 1/2 bag of soil on my porch and 3 days later they were flying out of it, very noticeable.
I removed it from my property immediately and stripped down and hosed myself down before going back inside.

No, not wet, but I purchased it before reading the reviews. All reviews aren't the same. The bad reviews were all about having fungus gnats in the soil. When we purchased it as a supplement, I had to go to the reviews to find out why we were having this issue... indoors. That brand has fungus gnat larvae. Our soil mix has 4 different brands... this one has problems, either they don't package in a facility that is temp controlled, or they do everything outside before packaging.

 

[Newty]

No, not wet, but I purchased it before reading the reviews. All reviews aren't the same. The bad reviews were all about having fungus gnats in the soil. When we purchased it as a supplement, I had to go to the reviews to find out why we were having this issue... indoors. That brand has fungus gnat larvae. Our soil mix has 4 different brands... this one has problems, either they don't package in a facility that is temp controlled, or they do everything outside before packaging.

Was it something you bought locally, online, and/or directly from manufacturer?

I haven't read reviews but so many soil suppliers (manufacturers probably as well) and local stores leave pallets of soil and other medium outside till it's sold.
Unless it's packaged extremely well, tiny insects could definitely get into the medium through pin holes and other defects in packaging.
I've bought soil off the pallets, luckily never had an issue.
I've bought it bone dry and also while it's raining and the medium ends up being soaked, if water can get in and wet the medium that quick then I'm sure pests could as well.

Never really thought about any of this prior.....now I'm a little paranoid lol

 

[DandJGrowManagement]

Was it something you bought locally, online, and/or directly from manufacturer?

I haven't read reviews but so many soil suppliers (manufacturers probably as well) and local stores leave pallets of soil and other medium outside till it's sold.
Unless it's packaged extremely well, tiny insects could definitely get into the medium through pin holes and other defects in packaging.
I've bought soil off the pallets, luckily never had an issue.
I've bought it bone dry and also while it's raining and the medium ends up being soaked, if water can get in and wet the medium that quick then I'm sure pests could as well.

Never really thought about any of this prior.....now I'm a little paranoid lol

Amazon, last minute to transplant from 1g to 5g https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K4SWZNY?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

 

[Mikedin]

Promix BX-M
Gaia Green 4/4/4 - 2/8/4
Azomite
Coast of Maine kelp meal
Coast of Maine fish bone meal
Earthworm castings
Epsom
Gypsum (or bone meal I switch between the 2)

As far as inputs go I go based off if it’s OMRI rated, if it is I’ll use it,

For watering, stuff like Fox Farms big bloom (not the grow or tiger bloom) sledgehammer (Yucca is only ingredient), microbe brew, advanced nutrients OG tea and a few others

 

[RootFarmer]

I’ve made soil several times. It is crazy expensive to make a good batch. 1 cuft of pumice is 30 bucks + worm casting + peat moss+ biochar+ craft blend + basalt + +++. Some of this stuff that is 50 bucks for a cuft is a really good deal. If you plan on just dumping a bunch of synthetic nutrients on it? Then there is really no point of assembling a soil. Just buy prolix or sunshine # 4.

$30 for 1 cu ft of Pumice? Is it laced with gold? Lol I pay $8 for 1 cu ft and it's not mass produced. It comes from a small company in PNW. Only $6 for 1 cu ft of EWC also from a small producer. My compost is from a local producer around the corner from me for $11/ cu ft. Canadian sphagnum for under $35 for 3.8 cu ft. Soil conditioner is <$15/ 3 cu ft. My amendments come from a small local business and I can buy everything by the pound. It's self-service. Just scoop your own and most are about $1/# or less. It's all excellent quality.

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

$30 for 1 cu ft of Pumice? Is it laced with gold? Lol I pay $8 for 1 cu ft and it's not mass produced. It comes from a small company in PNW. Only $6 for 1 cu ft of EWC also from a small producer. My compost is from a local producer around the corner from me for $11/ cu ft. Canadian sphagnum for under $35 for 3.8 cu ft. Soil conditioner is <$15/ 3 cu ft. My amendments come from a small local business and I can buy everything by the pound. It's self-service. Just scoop your own and most are about $1/# or less. It's all excellent quality.

Do you mind telling me where that store is or the name of it? (A PM is okay.) I'm hoping it's somewhere near me.