Basic fertilizers needed before start? 50 year old garden - Never fertilized

I will be doing my first grow in a garden worked for 50 years with NO fertilizer added during use (basic garden plantings, tomatoes, corn, etc.). I am assuming many/most of the nutrients have been depleted over the years.

Over the next few years I will be trying an assortment of different strains (most leaning toward the sativa side). I can fine tune any nutrient needs with fertilizer with each individual grow but my question is this...

What should I add to the garden now that will prepare the soil for cannabis cultivation. I have read that manure and compost give a good "base" with which to start with as both will benefit all strains.

How many people recommend this as a good start? What else, if anything, would people recommend I add?

I am wanting to replenish the basics that have been depleted over the years, hope this makes sense.....

All input is Greatly Appreciated from this end.

Wizzzzard


FYI, first year planned on Tikal strain. Location, mid west USA (Missouri)...

you should look up the ingredients to a good super soil recipe, and use the amendments one would use for such a soil for your garden..

something along the lines of this would work well imo..

Ingredients

• One Bag of high-quality organic potting soil – (8 – 10 gal.) This is the base of your mix. Which soil you select is very important. Its would wise not to skimp here buy buying something cheap like Miracle Grow. Try to make sure no (or as few as possible) chemical additives are in the soil. Check and make sure the soil contains coco -fibre and mycorrhizae.

• 3.125 to 6.25 lbs of Organic Worm Castings. Castings added to the soil carry to the root zone a rich compliment of soluble plant nutrients and growth enhancing compounds, a diverse and populous consortium of microbial life and a substrate of organic matter harboring a storehouse of nutrients that are not lost to rain and irrigation.

• .625 lbs or 5/8 lbs or 10 ounces Steamed Bone Meal. An excellent all-natural slow acting organic fertilizer that helps develop sturdy root systems and stimulates growth.

• .625 lbs or 5/8 lbs or 10 ounces Bat Guano. Bat guano provides a high concentration of nutrients to plants and the surrounding soil while improving drainage and texture. Bat guano is a suitable fertilizer for plants and lawns, making them healthy and green.

• .625 lbs or 5/8 lbs or 10 ounces Blood Meal. Used for nitrogen hungry plants with nitrogen constituted from bloods high protein content. These blood proteins are rapidly broken down by soil bacteria into ammonia fostering inside the soil warm moist conditions that favour beneficial bacterial growth.

• 3/8 lbs or 6 ounces Rock Phosphate. One of the three main nutrients plants require to thrive is Phosphorus. It functions as one of the major players in the process of photosynthesis, nutrient transport, and energy transfer. Phosphorus also effects the plant’s structure at a cellular level. A plant with the proper amount of phosphorus available to it will grow more vigorously and mature earlier than plants with inadequate phosphorus. A plant with phosphors deficiency will exhibit stunted growth, lack of fruit or flowers.

• 3/32 cup or 1.5 tablespoons Epsom Salts. Can stimulate plant growth by boosting the plant’s internal circulation. Enriches the soil before you plant.

• 1/16 cup or 1 tablespoon sweet lime (dolomite). Reduces soil acidity.
• 1/16 cup or 1 tablespoon Azomite (trace elements), Plant minerals.

• 3/4 teaspoon powdered Humic Acid. Increase root vitality. Improves nutrient uptake. Increased chlorophyll synthesis. Better seed germination. Increased fertilizer retention. Stimulates beneficial microbial activity. Healthier plants and improved yields.

you could also check out the organic section on here to see how others have added and or deleted certain parts of this recipe to work better..

i do know a lot of people like to get away from the blood and bone meal, as well as the bat guano parts of the above recipe...

pls. be careful with the batshit, i've gotten eye infections. goggles always

Thanks racerboy71 for the input, sounds pretty detailed.....

Fifty years w no fertilizer why do you need it now?

Compost and worm castings simple way, though if you want better and better super soil route similar to above

woody333333 said:

Fifty years w no fertilizer why do you need it now?

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Was parents old garden, going to be mine now....

Do you have access to local cheap compost? since the garden is 50 years old i'd recommend elephant poop.

Surrounded by farms, can probably round some up...

maybe get soil tested? local farm bureau or ag agency

abe supercro said:

pls. be careful with the batshit, i've gotten eye infections. goggles always

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your not supposed to snort the shit.

Wizzzzard said:

Surrounded by farms, can probably round some up...

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Right now is the perfect time to add as much fresh farm manure as you can haul...throw in a box of red worms & watch what happens by next spring.....best of luck

doublejj said:

Right now is the perfect time to add as much fresh farm manure as you can haul...throw in a box of red worms & watch what happens by next spring.....best of luck

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Any problems using chicken manure?, is it as good/better as any other farm manure?......

Wizzzzard said:

Any problems using chicken manure?, is it as good/better as any other farm manure?......

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they are all good, chicken is some of the best....

Is chicken manure by itself enough OR should I take the time to add some compost.....?

Wizzzzard said:

Is chicken manure by itself enough OR should I take the time to add some compost.....?

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pour it on bro, compost too

Intend to have soil analysed by local college extention, I have been told that TOMATOES is the closest legal plant whose nutrient requirements match those of cannabis. When asked what I am planting (cannabis illegal here) should I say tomatoes? (Are they the closest match to cannabis?).....

Yes tomatoes