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I am doing the full Coots mix for my next soil attempt. It has gysum in it as well. I can try putting in a bit of lime

will do!

So, your thoughts are that the 7.8ph i measured with runoff is not causing a lockout? I can definitely go the calmag route. I was using non organic calmag initially to bring my very soft water up to a 150ppm level. There seems to be a pretty big divide between the hands off organic route, and...

I can get some organic cal-mag for now. Good thing is that we have chickens, so we have a good deal of eggshells. I actually added some dolomite as a top dress about a month ago. Would you actually add lime in addition to the oyster shell flour that I will be adding to my next soil mix?

I do not have a mulch layer on my pots. I started this grow with not much organic knowledge(my mom was into it when i was a kid), started with some bagged soil and a couple of additions. I have been learning very quickly about how people do it. What do you mulch with? I am just about to make...

I am watering pretty thoroughly. I have a water wand that i do an initial pass for each pot and then come back and do a thorough soak. I get some runoff, but try to water just beneath that. My soil feels barely damp down a couple of inches by the next morning.

Wow! I'll do some reading. Layers of understanding at each turn. Give me a couple of days. Thanks for sending

I know how good the castings are, what would your thinking be in adding some now? Thanks for the luck. I'm sure I need a bit

I was wondering on addressing ph. I’m gonna see what happens with simple water with a bit of recharge. Plants are mostly looking good, as long as I can stop this lleaf issue

I do have some recharge. I’ll try watering with that for now. I get the feed the soil thought- just trying to fine tune how that manifests. In this grow I started out with bagged soil thinking I was gonna use bottled mutes. As I read up, I moved towards this direction. Because it was midstream I...

Im Im thankfully not in Texas. All of the moves I made were on the suggestion of the forum, particularly Richard. I didn't do anything rash or over the top, but culled a bunch of advise and did my best to follow it! I am not planning on flushing. I only checked PH when I noticed that there...

thanks. I ordered some stuff from them but didn't want to deal with the Pumice. Hence the home depot stuff

Hello, Along the arc of my first grow in a long time has been an unfolding understanding(much thanks to this forum) of an organic approach. i started with a decent soil and some amendments. About a month back I posted about how to amend to prepare for bloom. I got some great info from a bunch...

We have a bunch of old 7G fabric pots filled with Black Gold soil from last years tomato garden. As we are preparing for Spring, I am getting all my soil ready. In addition to some Coots style soil from scratch, I would like to amend and reuse this soil from last year. I'm thinking of putting...

seems like the start of a cheech and chong episode. I will do some smashing!

I don’t have any of the build-a-soil pumice, but most of these pieces are between 1/4 and 1/2”. I’m making about 6 cf of soil. I’m thinking of putting this bag in, which is .5cf and using 1 1/2cf of perlite

I bought this on my own accord. Was looking around to see what they might have at the store. It was $8. It actually seems to have a bunch of small holes. Definitely not a gravel. Kind of crumbly

Hello, I was out today getting all of my materials to take my first stab at Coot's style soil mix. I was sourcing everything locally in the Seattle area, and was having a hard time finding pumice, so was settling on getting perlite instead. I stopped at Home Depot and they had some of this...

So, you just put the one bin in the other? Do you have any pics of your setup?

thanks. Looks like a good mix and nice to hear that it has worked for you in smaller containers. That has been the question for me.