so felt good yesterday and set up the other bed. used 2 cups of high p bat guano, 1/4th of the medium is chicken and farmyard manure and homemade ewc, also added basalt, lava rocks, lava rock sand, just a couple of handfuls of sand, wheat bran, barley, malted rye, recycled organic coco mix, fresh coco from blocks, old dry cannabis leaves and stems, 2 cups of dry stinging nettles, some clay shards i found at home, micronized zeolite, and negligible amounts of perlite and vermiculite just because i had them. (oh now i wish i also added activated carbon well there is always the next time)
today i planted these 3 gals which have been sitting in my clone tent for so long. 3 malawis from ace seeds. they have been sitting in those pots for so long i even forgot if they were regular or feminized. need to check. well anyway this will be the first time i’ll grow these and i’ll pick the best plant to keep. i know they seem so sad now but they will probably look very different in 2 weeks.
normally i’d say a week but today as i was planting them i noticed the soil got hot. not like a true composting hot but its definitely more toasty at the bottom of the pot so this may make them uncomfortable at the beginning but i am not so worried atm because this happens with my mixes constantly as i also add a lot of fresh organic material like rye, bran, nettles, dry leaves etc and it usually stops in a week or so. also there is a lot of worms from the ewc. i also seem to have really doubled the medium volume compared to my first attempt. well anyway such a long winded post. here it goes.
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