Good, cheap mix

570.Grow

570.Grow

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I was wondering if anyone had a budget friendly organic soil mix that wouldn’t sacrifice quality. I’ve been reading for a while now, this is going to be my first real organic grow but the mix I came up with will cost too much right now and I’m too impatient to wait :?
 
Preferably something I can cook and just water/boost life with teas. I’ll be growing autos the first few runs
 
Well you certainly don't need to drop bank at say build a soil but most of the stuff bagged at home stores is crap for growing weed all by itself. Look for a decent organic garden soil for growing vegetables like say Kellogs and then add like 1/3 worm castings and some perlite to lighten it up which will give you a good base to amend further. Don't use anything that contains miracle grow or time released pellets of "plant food."
Honestly it takes a few recycles before the soil reaches a supernatural status where you won't need to amend as much or maybe even at all. Best thing you can do now is start a worm bin and keep adding fresh castings to your mix. Learn about recycling & amending soil and aquire whatever you need in the meantime. It's a slow process but pays off in time eventually when you only will need to give water.
 
Real dirt my dude....get a shovel. I would find a fertile undisturbed area and dig up a good base, which hopefully has some worms and good natural microbes in it. Hit it with some perlite, castings, compost, bone meal, blood meal, and kelp
 
Blood fish and bone. Also some farm feed stores carry stuff you can use like rice bran, oyster shell flour, alfalfa meal, gypsum. Cheap too
 
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