Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

JayY2015

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Do I just use Lactic Acid Bacteria in flowering ? also I have a big batch of soil been mixed up for a few weeks can I use it right after adding the bio char or do I need to wait ?
 

Crab Pot

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Do I just use Lactic Acid Bacteria in flowering ? also I have a big batch of soil been mixed up for a few weeks can I use it right after adding the bio char or do I need to wait ?

How do you plan to apply the lactic acid?

Yeah you can use the soil immediately after you mix in the BioChar, just make sure it's charged.
 

JayY2015

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I am just now ordering all the glass jugs and items to make it I guess as a liquid with molasses ? is it 3rd stage of recipe for all stages of plant growth and the 4th stage is just for flower ?
 

Crab Pot

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@JayY2015

BioChar will pull nutrients out of your soil unless it's pre charged. When growers put it in their soil mix without pre charging it their plants yellow prematurely.

There are many ways to charge BioChar. I usually bubble 1/2 cup kelp meal and 1/2 a cup of neem seed meal per five gallons water, for a day and then use the tea water to soak the BioChar in for several days. Another way would be to make a compost tea and charge it with that or some use Fish Hydroxylase.

Where did you get your BioChar?
 

JayY2015

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BioChar will pull nutrients out of your soil unless it's pre charged. When growers put it in their soil mix without pre charging it their plants yellow prematurely.

There are many ways to charge BioChar. I usually bubble 1/2 cup kelp meal and 1/2 a cup of neem seed meal per five gallons water, for a day and then use the tea water to soak the BioChar in for several days. Another way would be to make a compost tea and charge it with that or some use Fish Hydroxylase.

Where did you get your BioChar?
I added the bio char directly to my soil mix after the first post hahahah what do I do now ?

Green Texan Organic Farms crushed bio char
 

JayY2015

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5 gallon bucket Premier sphagnum peat moss
5 gallon bucket Worm Castings
5 gallon bucket perlite
1 cup kelp meal
1 cup neem meal
1 cup crusteacean meal

1 cup gypsum
1 cup oyster shell flour

6 cups of Rock dusts (basalt,glacial,granite)

I added some alfalfa meal a week or two after I mixed it.
 

Crab Pot

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5 gallon bucket Premier sphagnum peat moss
5 gallon bucket Worm Castings
5 gallon bucket perlite
1 cup kelp meal
1 cup neem meal
1 cup crusteacean meal

1 cup gypsum
1 cup oyster shell flour

6 cups of Rock dusts (basalt,glacial,granite)

I added some alfalfa meal a week or two after I mixed it.
Good choice on the recipe. Yeah your going to need to add a few more nutrients. What percentage of BioChar did you add?

And how much Alfalfa?
 

Crab Pot

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Lol that's a bunch! That's basically Coots mix with Alfalfa added. Why so much? I would advice leaving the alfalfa out of the mix next time. You can always use some for a tea but the mix is well balanced without the alfalfa. Anyway, the alfalfa should offset the BioChar.
 

JayY2015

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Lol that's a bunch! That's basically Coots mix with Alfalfa added. Why so much? I would advice leaving the alfalfa out of the mix next time. You can always use some for a tea but the mix is well balanced without the alfalfa. Anyway, the alfalfa should offset the BioChar.
I think I did 4 cups now that I think about it, I did the 1 cup per cubic feet it said on the first page of this post and I started with around 30 gallons.
 

COGrown

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Do I just use Lactic Acid Bacteria in flowering ? also I have a big batch of soil been mixed up for a few weeks can I use it right after adding the bio char or do I need to wait ?
There's no bad time to use LAB in soil. My understanding is that they help with breaking down any of the organic material in your medium to make it available to the roots. So as long as you have organic amendments that provide P and K as they are broken down, it should help.

I wouldn't spray buds with it, but I don't spray flowers with anything.
 

JayY2015

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@JayY2015

BioChar will pull nutrients out of your soil unless it's pre charged. When growers put it in their soil mix without pre charging it their plants yellow prematurely.

There are many ways to charge BioChar. I usually bubble 1/2 cup kelp meal and 1/2 a cup of neem seed meal per five gallons water, for a day and then use the tea water to soak the BioChar in for several days. Another way would be to make a compost tea and charge it with that or some use Fish Hydroxylase.

Where did you get your BioChar?

Do you mean use an aerator ??
 
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