Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

I talked to the OC Farm Store guy about Promix BX and he said something interesting. It is complete and ready to grow and it does not need amending. In fact he said that when it is amended it does not work as well.

So I tried an experiment using straight Promix in my last 18 pots for my seedlings. The interesting thing I noticed was when I watered the soil it stayed the same size and didn't shrink as much as the Sunshine#4.


My compost pile is still cooking:



Cheers,
Mo
 
Mohican said:
I talked to the OC Farm Store guy about Promix BX and he said something interesting. It is complete and ready to grow and it does not need amending. In fact he said that when it is amended it does not work as well.
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hmm...did he elaborate on this at all? cause i'm sitting here looking at the ingredients of ProMix BX and it seems like it could use some amending....
 
No he didn't, other than to say that if I were to try and get a similar product made locally it would cost more like $100/bag!?

So I am trying the experiment to see what happens.

A weird observation though, my super soil (with Promix as a base) never grew a web, and Promix by itself always grow a web.
 
Mohican said:
No he didn't, other than to say that if I were to try and get a similar product made locally it would cost more like $100/bag!?

So I am trying the experiment to see what happens.

A weird observation though, my super soil (with Promix as a base) never grew a web, and Promix by itself always grow a web.
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Does he know what you are using pro mix for? If you are growing lettuce or artichokes or avocados or what ever. That would probably be enough. For what we do.... most likely not.
 
Yup - they have been getting more and more medicinal grow products. Now they are getting rid of most of them. They have some great deals on a few GH and AN nutes and various sizes of rockwool.

It was funny last year when I was researching what soil I wanted to get, I narrowed my choice down to Promix BX. Then I went to the Farm Store and I asked a million questions (they really do know some cool tricks) and then I asked about bag soil and they suggested a few things that I didn't like and then they asked "what are you growing" to which I said "medicinal" the guy smiled and said "for medicinal you want Promix BX, it is what everybody is using!" That is when I decided that these guys know a good deal about growing many things :)


I got a few pink seedlings today and a 3-leafer:







Cheers,
Mo
 
very nice! now thats some turgor pressure :clap:

coconut h2o or sprouted seed tea? (or diastatic malt?)

or just plain ol' aloe?
 
I wish the search worked easier- sorry i'm going to have to ask while it's being mentioned.

Is SST (or diastatic malt) just a soil drench or is it a foliar? Or is it both?
 
cootz recommends soil application only...the enzymes don't do much in the phyllosphere.
 
going to try osha root (Ligusticum porteri) as a PM spray.. feel like I should've tested this long ago given the roots inability to ever get rotten/moldy. I have plenty of tincture and dried root, might as well give it a go
 
Wowsers SpliffAndMyLady, that pic is cool. I'm an atheist... but I want my plants to pray like that every day :mrgreen:

Right after reading you say that's what you use, I went and picked some fresh leaves and did a foliar spray.
I've read that it can be used as both a soil drench and a foliar, but does everyone do both or is the spray good enough by itself? I ask this because I watered yesterday and didn't want to wet the soil down again so soon. Should I be trying to incorporate an aloe drench or be content with just foliar?
 
dl290485 said:
Wowsers SpliffAndMyLady, that pic is cool. I'm an atheist... but I want my plants to pray like that every day :mrgreen:

Right after reading you say that's what you use, I went and picked some fresh leaves and did a foliar spray.
I've read that it can be used as both a soil drench and a foliar, but does everyone do both or is the spray good enough by itself? I ask this because I watered yesterday and didn't want to wet the soil down again so soon. Should I be trying to incorporate an aloe drench or be content with just foliar?
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Both work, but soil drenching is better. You use more when you apply it to your soil though.
 
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