mccumcumber
Well-Known Member
With curing being just around the corner I've decided to get my till on super early... now that I have nothing to take care of outside I don't really have an excuse to distract myself from trimming... and I would like one!
Preface:
All of this will be done in planters that I still need to build. Pots are nice, and may arguably be better, but I like planters the best. I've been growing tomatoes in em for about 12 years... why not put some grass in em.
So... here's the plan:
Each planter will be 3'x7'x2' and consist of 5 layers.
Top layer (sprout stage!):
80% roots org 707
20% worm castings
Plain in simple, don't want it to sprout in hot soil and start out all fucked up
Second layer (veg stage!):
50% roots org 707
25% worm castings
5% bat guano (Mexican) 10-2-1
5% fish blood meal 12-0-0
5% bone meal 4-12-0
2.5% potash of sulfate 0-0-50 (holy shit!)
2.5% Texas greensand 0-0-3
2% dolomite (cool that shit down)
1% azomite
1% humic acid
1% Botanic ZHO root inoculant
(All of the percentages are rough estimates... I don't weigh out anything... I kind of treat soil mixing like I do cooking, never exact, but pretty damn close. The trace elements and inoculant are probably < 1%, but it's more cosmetically appealing for me to put them this way)
So, after putting the correct weight on all the percentages we get a soil with worm castings and trace elements with a fertilizer of 26-14-27.5
I may have to add some N, and possibly add some more dolomite... may have to think that one through.
So, I'm putting in the guano first cause it gets used up pretty quick (or so I've been told) so why not have it help out the veg stage? Green sand provides a little bit of iron, and fish blood/bones have always been known to help plant growth. This should get a good network of microbiology goin', the root inoculant will hopefully help that out. I think I'm gonna add two rounds of compost tea to the mix while it's cookin' as well, just to make stuff super happy. Some nematodes will get introduced to the mix as well.
Third layer (first flower stage):
50% roots org 707
20% worm castings
5% bat guano (Mexican) 10-2-1
5% bat guano (Jamaican) 1-10-0.2
5% fish blood meal 12-0-0
5% fish bone meal 3-18-0
2.5% potash of sulfate 0-0-50
2.5% Texas greensand 0-0-3
2% dolomite
1% epsom salt (mag)
1% azomite
1% humic acid
Slowly introducing more P, keeping the K around the same, and letting the N go down gradually. Now we have a 29-32-27.7 fertilizer. This will be the last time we use guano as well. The second layer will probably be have quite a few roots in it by the time this layer is reached, which will provide a slow move in nutrition change... hopefully. The trace elements are going to stay the same throughout, from now on I'm only going to list them as trace.
Layer four (Second stage of flowering):
40% roots org 707
20% worm castings
20% Stutzman farms chicken manure 3-2-2
10% fish bone meal 3-18-0
2.5% potash of sulfate 0-0-50
2.5% Texas greensand 0-0-3
5% trace elements
Chicken shit is slow releasing, so when the roots first start breaking into this layer, probably around the time they have established a good amount of roots in the second layer, they won't pick up too much of the shit, but by the middle of flowering, this chicken poop is gonna do wonders! The fertilizer is at about 18-44-34.5
Bottom layer (The end!):
40% roots org 707
20% worm castings
20% Stutzman farms chicken manure 3-2-2
5% Llama manure 0.5-0.5-1.5 (usually around that area)
5% fish bone meal 3-18-0
5% potash of sulfate 0-0-50
5% trace elements
Just let the k do the work! I tend to water pretty heavy in the last two weeks, guess that counts as a flush.
Now I know the numbers of the fert may seem high, but that is the fert at 5% of the soil, I just find it easier to work with whole numbers rather than decimals.
Please gimme some feedback on this, tell me how it sounds and what you guys would do different. I would love to get some info before I go shoppin' (going be about a month away)
Preface:
All of this will be done in planters that I still need to build. Pots are nice, and may arguably be better, but I like planters the best. I've been growing tomatoes in em for about 12 years... why not put some grass in em.
So... here's the plan:
Each planter will be 3'x7'x2' and consist of 5 layers.
Top layer (sprout stage!):
80% roots org 707
20% worm castings
Plain in simple, don't want it to sprout in hot soil and start out all fucked up
Second layer (veg stage!):
50% roots org 707
25% worm castings
5% bat guano (Mexican) 10-2-1
5% fish blood meal 12-0-0
5% bone meal 4-12-0
2.5% potash of sulfate 0-0-50 (holy shit!)
2.5% Texas greensand 0-0-3
2% dolomite (cool that shit down)
1% azomite
1% humic acid
1% Botanic ZHO root inoculant
(All of the percentages are rough estimates... I don't weigh out anything... I kind of treat soil mixing like I do cooking, never exact, but pretty damn close. The trace elements and inoculant are probably < 1%, but it's more cosmetically appealing for me to put them this way)
So, after putting the correct weight on all the percentages we get a soil with worm castings and trace elements with a fertilizer of 26-14-27.5
I may have to add some N, and possibly add some more dolomite... may have to think that one through.
So, I'm putting in the guano first cause it gets used up pretty quick (or so I've been told) so why not have it help out the veg stage? Green sand provides a little bit of iron, and fish blood/bones have always been known to help plant growth. This should get a good network of microbiology goin', the root inoculant will hopefully help that out. I think I'm gonna add two rounds of compost tea to the mix while it's cookin' as well, just to make stuff super happy. Some nematodes will get introduced to the mix as well.
Third layer (first flower stage):
50% roots org 707
20% worm castings
5% bat guano (Mexican) 10-2-1
5% bat guano (Jamaican) 1-10-0.2
5% fish blood meal 12-0-0
5% fish bone meal 3-18-0
2.5% potash of sulfate 0-0-50
2.5% Texas greensand 0-0-3
2% dolomite
1% epsom salt (mag)
1% azomite
1% humic acid
Slowly introducing more P, keeping the K around the same, and letting the N go down gradually. Now we have a 29-32-27.7 fertilizer. This will be the last time we use guano as well. The second layer will probably be have quite a few roots in it by the time this layer is reached, which will provide a slow move in nutrition change... hopefully. The trace elements are going to stay the same throughout, from now on I'm only going to list them as trace.
Layer four (Second stage of flowering):
40% roots org 707
20% worm castings
20% Stutzman farms chicken manure 3-2-2
10% fish bone meal 3-18-0
2.5% potash of sulfate 0-0-50
2.5% Texas greensand 0-0-3
5% trace elements
Chicken shit is slow releasing, so when the roots first start breaking into this layer, probably around the time they have established a good amount of roots in the second layer, they won't pick up too much of the shit, but by the middle of flowering, this chicken poop is gonna do wonders! The fertilizer is at about 18-44-34.5
Bottom layer (The end!):
40% roots org 707
20% worm castings
20% Stutzman farms chicken manure 3-2-2
5% Llama manure 0.5-0.5-1.5 (usually around that area)
5% fish bone meal 3-18-0
5% potash of sulfate 0-0-50
5% trace elements
Just let the k do the work! I tend to water pretty heavy in the last two weeks, guess that counts as a flush.
Now I know the numbers of the fert may seem high, but that is the fert at 5% of the soil, I just find it easier to work with whole numbers rather than decimals.
Please gimme some feedback on this, tell me how it sounds and what you guys would do different. I would love to get some info before I go shoppin' (going be about a month away)