Bluesky-Organics

[hillbill]

Top dressing at 4 weeks is what I've settled on in 7 liter waste baskets. Small trained plants in small containers. Compost tea and very weak Alfalfa tea rotated with clear when watering. Rarely have much for deficiencies. At 4 weeks allows time for the top dressing to be useful. Pretty much like that for years

 

[mariowarner]

Ok, I'm beginning to get a grip of what to do, you guys pointed me in the right direction. hillbill, with what kind of soil do you start? If I understand this, you start to add the top dressings after 4 weeks. Everytime you water, once the compost tea and once the alfalfa in a rotation until the end? What I want to do is start with a promix mixed with gaia all purpose and bloom fertilizers following their instructions, then after a month start adding top dressings of compost teas and these 2 fertilizers in small quantity once a month (like on their instructions). What do you think?

 

[hillbill]

I use a ~30 gal mix of something like;
Previous mix 1G
Used mix. 8 G.
Peat moss. 5 G
Vermiculite. 1 G
NAPA 8822. 1 G
Perlite 4 G
Sharp creek gravel 1G
Castings. 2 G
Back to Nature cotton Burr com. 3 G
Black Kow. 2 G
Nutes/minerals; one cup each of fish meal, Alfalfa meal, composted poultry litter, soft rock phosphate, greensand, powdered limestone and dolomite.
Two cups each of Neem meal, fish bone meal, porcine bone meal, kelp meal and oak ash.
1/2 cup for kmag and gypsum, 2 tablespoons azomite.

I rotate with each watering, not each every time. And I topdress with castings, Black Kos and fish bone meal.

It seems to work well and I switch some nutrient sources from time to time but always similar. I mixed this exact mix this AM.

 

[mariowarner]

Looks great! But these are a little too many different bags to stock. Do you think this recipe will work?

• Standard Pro-Mix soil mixed with Gaia all purpose and power bloom fertilizer following their ratio instructions
• Every month adding these 2 fertilizers as top dressings still following their quantity instructions
• Adding some compost tea (which ones?) and weak alfalfa every 2 watering or so after 4 weeks

Thanks!

 

[hillbill]

My tea is from Cotton Burr Compost, my compost, castings and leaf molds and forest litter with molasses. Alfalfa teas are 1/2 T per gallon and same with kelp meal. Molasses is also used with Alfalfa tea. Clear water is most often clear water.

I'm not familiar with those nutes but I try to keep my overal values similar. I water my mix with compost tea with a couple T/gallon molasses until I squeeze some drops of water out and turn it every couple days for a week. Then it sits at least a month.

 

[mariowarner]

Good so I'll go and try my recipe if it's similar to yours, will adjust compost and nutes while growing!

 

[Rasta Roy]

Ah okay! So my options here would be :

• add organic nutes after a month or 2
• taking my plant out of the 5ga pot, emptying the pot, put in new soil and replant

Is this right?

Yes sir, more or less. Either top dress an organic fertilizer of some kind, or water with a liquid one. Or repot into fresh organic soil.

 

[mariowarner]

Thanks for your help everybody, I'm ready to go now

 

[danthepluhmain]

blue sky organic is the way to grow in canada best line of orgnics out there

 

[Thai_Lights]

blue sky organic is the way to grow in canada best line of orgnics out there

No it's not.... get your own worm bin. Reduce your house hold waste going to the landfill and get some vermicompost also.

 

[Rasta Roy]

No it's not.... get your own worm bin. Reduce your house hold waste going to the landfill and get some vermicompost also.

Also reduce the amount of plastic being used!

 

[Danielson999]

I've tried several different bagged super-soils and I definitely like BlueSky Organics the best. Definitely the best soil you can get in Canada without making your own. I use it for my indoor grows and I mix my own soil for my outdoor garden. I'm all for building your own soil but not everybody has the time or patience to piece it all together and I get that. In the winter it's far easier to get a bag of premixed soil from BlueSky. Fuck worm bins and reducing my household waste, I just want to grow plants without getting too involved when I'm busy with work and other parts of life.

 

[danthepluhmain]

 

[rocknron50]

...an old thread but...I was looking for other cultivators that have used the BlueSky Super Soil? The web site provides a schedule on how to use there products..I’ve used it as a guideline and here are the results, up to yesterday.
Day 30-flower, 3 unknown strains.
Vegged 60 days, lst, topping and ..I think a failed fim ..ironic
In a 2.5 x 2.5 x 5’ tent
CLW SS275 for lights.
Some lessons learned, but having a blast!