Momma orgrow

Hey gang so I'm thinking about making a mother plant come spring when my compost pile unfreezes. Now, I've been cultivating compost for a bit but haven't had an opportunity to use it.

How do you go about it? Should I get some premix and 50/50 it with the compost? Or just strait compost, or organic soil n compost.

My compost is mostly made up of green material, ie food scraps, I have added brown matter like card board and dead leaves but not much else.

Currently it has a lot of fresh looking food because it's basically in a freezer, so I know I'll have to turn it a bunch and probably add more worms comes spring as I'm sure they're dead from the cold.

But once it's primed and sifted what do I do?

I think a 50/50 split is a bit much. You need to add 30% or so of aeration(perlite, vermiculite, etc) with a coco coir or peat moss base of 50-55% and then 15-20% of the compost. Of course, you are still going need to add an appropriate amount of organic nutrients as well.

Like what kind of organic nuits?

Organic nutes such as bone meal, blood meal, bat guano, alfalfa meal, keep meal. Just give it a few google searches and you'll come up with plenty. Start by learning what your plants needs (NPK & trace minerals), then find what organic nute will give it to them.
Unless you just wan to buy pre made organic nutes.

Nugs1 said:

Organic nutes such as bone meal, blood meal, bat guano, alfalfa meal, keep meal. Just give it a few google searches and you'll come up with plenty. Start by learning what your plants needs (NPK & trace minerals), then find what organic nute will give it to them.
Unless you just wan to buy pre made organic nutes.

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I've about 10 gallons of kitchen scrap vermi compost... I'm sure it's npk index is all over the place and unfathomable. I was hoping my mother plant would be a glorified houseplant, where I keep it in my yoga room, near a window with no real supplemental lighting.

I'm sure that's not the best conditions to make clones from, but has anyone done something as lax as I plan on doing?

I haven't personally but, being that its winter (if you in the northern hemisphere) the light from the window won't give you enough hours.
You could buy a 125w CFL light from amazon pretty cheap like $25 bucks or something to help, it provided me plenty of light for my mother.

yeah that's what I'm thinking or even a LED bulb just to keep the plants internal clocks on, not really for GROWTH

That would work, you don't have to have a lot of light on them to interrupt the flowering process, per Ed Rosenthal- All you have to do is "bathe" them in light for about 15 minutes every couple hours to keep them from flowering. You just need to interrupt the chemical reaction within the plant.