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I may grt my soil tested, but only once, and it will probably be in June. No way to test a mix before its made.
But your saying Coots mix calls for compost made with specific ingredients, I don't see that anywhere.
I just spend a fuck load of money and buy vermifire. \
Bulldog, you have inspired me today. After I went on a trip to dreadful Boulder, CO to source the remaining ingredients to my soil I went fishing. I got pretty stoned on some gorilla glue, saw a bat flying in the middle of winter during the day, and decided that you are right about soil testing. If we are going through the effort with all this we might as well do it right.
So when you do a test on your soil, do you mix up all whole yard or more at once then test it...or would mixing up say 1 cf of the ratios work, just for testings sake? I believe I saw in a post earlier that it didn't matter if the soil was sitting for a while or not.
Also...pumice is hard to find. And real expensive, especially bought off the internet. My drainage 1/3 of the mix will be 50% rice hulls , 25% perlite, and 25% silica rock. I may miss out on some minerals by not using pumice, what do you all think?
Don't sweat it, and leave out the perlite entirely. Find another rock dust that'll help provide what the pumice will, or add something like bone meal.Also...pumice is hard to find. And real expensive, especially bought off the internet. My drainage 1/3 of the mix will be 50% rice hulls , 25% perlite, and 25% silica rock. I may miss out on some minerals by not using pumice, what do you all think?
Mind if i screen shot ur mix...and how was ur grow????? I like that its organic ....but does it produce the same results as with fertilizers???? This is my firat grow....Here goes my soil mix
1 big bag of Fox Farn Ocean Forest
2 4lb bags of worm casings
1 pound bone meal
1 pound blood meal
3 cups epson salts
2 cups of dolomite lime
2 bags of perlite
Water well, mix well, let sit for at least 90 days prior to using. This is an organic mix and I never have to add any ferts during growing.