Rasta Roy
Well-Known Member
I was inspired to make this post after visiting a friend while he was repotting. My man makes his own dirt choices and he chose to use roots organics 707 blend or whatever they call it. So he pops open the bag of this stuff that he paid a pretty penny for, and fungus gnats fly out. Not like a swarm, but more than a few. Not cool roots organics. Not cool.
Now unlike my dude in the paragraph above, I don't fuck with the grow store and their fungus gnat fuck factory they call amended soil. And you don't have to either.
First thing, hit up google. Search for your local landscape and gardening supplier. If you don't have one...Menards, Lowe's, or Home Depot's garden center's will have to do.
There you can buy a bale of peat moss, a bag of perlite (don't buy Miracle-Gro perlite tho), compost, and worm castings.
3 parts peat moss
3 parts perlite
3 parts compost
1 part Worm Castings
That's your main base mix. Now you need to mix in your amendments.
Now if you've got a poorly supplied garden supplier you might have to pick up some amendments from the grow store.
Oyster Shell Flour (1 tbsp per gallon)
Dolomite Lime (2 tbsp per 5 gallons)
Fish Bone Meal (1 tbsp per gallon)
Kelp Meal (1 tbsp per gallon)
Alfalfa Meal (1 tbsp per gallon)
Blood Meal (1/2 tbsp per gallon)
Mix it all up, don't get it soaking wet but get it good and wet. Cover it, or put it in a tub. Let it sit for 4 to 8 weeks. Mix it up and check on it every other week.
If you don't want to cook it up just go ahead and plant right into the mix. Just water with a quality Fish hydroslate like age old organics Fish and seaweed Fertilizer or the Neptune's Harvest brand for about three weeks until the mix kicks in. Then just hit em with plain water. From veg to flower. You can top dress with fish bone meal or high phosphorus Bat Guano during week three of flower if you want a boost but unless your plants are super feeders you shouldn't need it.
Boom. Now you have your own super soil that rivals anything roots organics or happy frog can put in a bag and charge you out the ass for.
Now unlike my dude in the paragraph above, I don't fuck with the grow store and their fungus gnat fuck factory they call amended soil. And you don't have to either.
First thing, hit up google. Search for your local landscape and gardening supplier. If you don't have one...Menards, Lowe's, or Home Depot's garden center's will have to do.
There you can buy a bale of peat moss, a bag of perlite (don't buy Miracle-Gro perlite tho), compost, and worm castings.
3 parts peat moss
3 parts perlite
3 parts compost
1 part Worm Castings
That's your main base mix. Now you need to mix in your amendments.
Now if you've got a poorly supplied garden supplier you might have to pick up some amendments from the grow store.
Oyster Shell Flour (1 tbsp per gallon)
Dolomite Lime (2 tbsp per 5 gallons)
Fish Bone Meal (1 tbsp per gallon)
Kelp Meal (1 tbsp per gallon)
Alfalfa Meal (1 tbsp per gallon)
Blood Meal (1/2 tbsp per gallon)
Mix it all up, don't get it soaking wet but get it good and wet. Cover it, or put it in a tub. Let it sit for 4 to 8 weeks. Mix it up and check on it every other week.
If you don't want to cook it up just go ahead and plant right into the mix. Just water with a quality Fish hydroslate like age old organics Fish and seaweed Fertilizer or the Neptune's Harvest brand for about three weeks until the mix kicks in. Then just hit em with plain water. From veg to flower. You can top dress with fish bone meal or high phosphorus Bat Guano during week three of flower if you want a boost but unless your plants are super feeders you shouldn't need it.
Boom. Now you have your own super soil that rivals anything roots organics or happy frog can put in a bag and charge you out the ass for.
