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REALSTYLES

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Well guys I've found a simple recipe that works great and low cost.

Soil recipe list of things needed

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kellogg-3-cu-ft-Flower-and-Vegetable-Soil/3026867

https://www.lowes.com/pd/3-cu-ft-Sphagnum-Peat-Moss/50339650

http://www.homedepot.com/p/DR-EARTH...d-Bloom-Booster-Dry-Fertilizer-707P/205827664

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Growston...34491&wl11=online&wl12=47657999&wl13=&veh=sem
Mix the peat moss with the Kellogg and the growstones with 3 cups Flower girl and I also add a bag of castings in the mix I also just reamenend my soil every time I need to reuse it

taken 8-20-2017




1 month later 9-20-2017

Day 2 week 1 of flower 9-18-2017
 
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Nutria

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I am going to give organic a tray, I am a hydro guy.
Do you ph your water before feeding?
If I make my own soil like you did I am worried I fuck up its ph
 
Abiqua

Abiqua

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CobKits said:
show me the way. i havent used soil since 1995
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I suggest reading that link I dropped above or search SlowNickel lounge on icm, good thread on CEC. Just the basics from Albrecht and Tjiedans....no foo foo juices. High Ca, low everything else especially Fe, Al.....some MN and some B too....
 
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Photon Flinger

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CobKits said:
is that in the same league as undercurrent when it comes to uptake? (assuming undercurrent is the gold standard)
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Don't know. Wicking principle once dialed in and so long as you have water in res reaches a nice equilibrium of air and water for the plant.

It just works well for me that is what I know. Peat is acidic as it breaks down so the plants like it and the bad critters don't.
 
ganjamystic

ganjamystic

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CobKits said:
looks great.

how clean/sterile is that soil?

im always leery of introducing pests which is why i heart hydro
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good soil should be very much alive, not sterile at all... it's the exact opposite of a sterile hydro grow. lots of beneficial microbes and insects are necessary to keep everything in balance... nothing 'clean' about it.. it's dirt.
CobKits said:
show me the way. i havent used soil since 1995
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https://buildasoil.com/pages/the-complete-system
Soil Recipe: (Purchase From Us, Purchase the DIY kit from us, or completely make it yourself)

1 Part Canadian Sphagnum Peatmoss

1 Part Premium Thermal Compost (Feel free to use up to half as Vermicompost or Worm Castings)

Notice: The compost is the single most important ingredient, don’t skimp.

1 Part Aeration/Drainage (We use Pumice, Rice Hulls, Grow Stones)

Per Cubic Foot of total soil volume add:

½ Cup of Each: Premium Kelp Meal, Premium Neem and/or Karanja Cake, Premium Crustacean Meal

2 Cups Basalt, 1 Cup Gypsum and 1 Cup Oyster Shell Flour

Bonus: Add ½ Cup Fish Bone Meal and ½ Cup Malted Barley Powder

Mix and plant right away or tuck away and let compost for a couple of weeks first. Either way.
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I'd recommend adding 1/2 cup per cu ft insect frass, and top-dressing with a little neem cake and insect frass too, plus pre inoculating the soil with beneficial nematodes and bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (natural fungus gnat control)... hypoaspis miles (fungus gnat/thrip predators) and phytoseiulus persimilis (spider mite predators) are awesome as well...

it sounds like a lot of work, but once the soil is mixed, all you have to do is water... and you can re-use it over and over again, simply top-dressing a little in between runs... and it just gets better with time

(I have a lot of experience both with mineral salts in inert media as well as no-till style growing in organic living soil, so I can assure you from personal experience both methods can produce fire herbs...)
 
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