New to organics, Please help!

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Chadwick9519

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Hello and Thanks for taking time to read!
Im not new to growing but im new to soil and organics. I had mixed up a new organic medium

20 gallons Promix bx
8 gallons worm castings
8 gallons coco
4 gallon chicken manure

3 cups Gaia green 444
4 cups Kelp meal
4 cups Neem fertilizer
4 cups Fine ground oyster shell
4 cups Glacier rockdust
4 cups Green sand

Let cook for about 2 months ?
Top dress during flower with Bat guano and Gaia Green 284 bloom at weeks 3 and 6?

Is this okay? What should i have done differently and what seems to be okay ? I think i have a issue because this is happening 20200924_211348.jpg
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green_machine_two9er

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Chadwick9519 said:
Hello and Thanks for taking time to read!
Im not new to growing but im new to soil and organics. I had mixed up a new organic medium

20 gallons Promix bx
8 gallons worm castings
8 gallons coco
4 gallon chicken manure

3 cups Gaia green 444
4 cups Kelp meal
4 cups Neem fertilizer
4 cups Fine ground oyster shell
4 cups Glacier rockdust
4 cups Green sand

Let cook for about 2 months ?
Top dress during flower with Bat guano and Gaia Green 284 bloom at weeks 3 and 6?

Is this okay? What should i have done differently and what seems to be okay ? I think i have a issue because this is happening View attachment 4694313
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That’s pretty sexy dude! I like to see a mycelium flush like that. Green or black molds can be trouble, but nice and white I wouldn’t sweat it. How much water did you add when you started cooking? You can drill some hole in the tote If you feel like it, or just make sure the lid is not air tight if your using one.
 
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Chadwick9519

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Thanks man! And alright thats good to know, i made up a compost tea
5 Gallons of R.O water
1 cup of neem fertilizer
1/2 cup of alfalfa meal
2 tbs of Molasses
Let it bubble for 26 hours then took the contents of the bag and added to top of soil Only used 2 liters of the tea thou over the top of the soil
My lid is on for like 8 a hours a day and then off for the rest, i Plan to mix it every sunday by pouring it onto a tarp and hand mixing it then throwing it back into my container and plain water it. Keeping that schedule for 2 months while it cooks then using it in 1 gallon containers for 4 weeks then transplant in 5 gallons for flower with same soil just top dress
 
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green_machine_two9er

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Chadwick9519 said:
Thanks man! And alright thats good to know, i made up a compost tea
5 Gallons of R.O water
1 cup of neem fertilizer
1/2 cup of alfalfa meal
2 tbs of Molasses
Let it bubble for 26 hours then took the contents of the bag and added to top of soil Only used 2 liters of the tea thou over the top of the soil
My lid is on for like 8 a hours a day and then off for the rest, i Plan to mix it every sunday by pouring it onto a tarp and hand mixing it then throwing it back into my container and plain water it. Keeping that schedule for 2 months while it cooks then using it in 1 gallon containers for 4 weeks then transplant in 5 gallons for flower with same soil just top dress
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I don’t see the compost in your tea? Also the less you disturb your fungal networks the better. Don’t mix your soil to much if at all. I would just put that mix into your final Flower pot. Put a dummy put the size of your cut or seedling cup and make it level. Then just transplant and go.

As far as cook time. 3-4 weeks is usually plenty. Especially since your mix is relatively light npk.

Here’s a batch I just whipped up that I “cook” right in the final pots. I feel like the reduced stress on the fungal networks the better when roots hit the soil.
 

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green_machine_two9er

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Chadwick9519 said:
Thanks dude! Does my soil mix seem okay to strong?
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If anything it’s light. You could have 2-4 cups meals/nutrients and 3-4 cups minerals. Plus buffers. The only other thing would be more perlite or pumice instead of coco. But that’s just me. On a great track and I’m sure your mix will work.
 
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Sorry my Compost tea had 1 1/2 cups of wprm castings in it as well lol and really ? I thought the chicken manure wpuld have put me over board cause i heard its very strong stuff but thats good to know ill definitely take that into consideration for my next batch of soil
 
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