Enhancing coast of Maine a stonington blend

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Benmass

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This what is in the stonington blend and I'm looking to enhance this recipe if I can. To start off it's a really heavy soil so I'd like to add rice hulls for aeration and the other added benefits like extra silica for the plants! Also bio char that's been supercharged In a compost tea. Would adding extra mycorrhizal be beneficial at all? I have some em1 microbes also idk if it's needed or not. What about rock dust like basalt or azomite? Maybe some extra meals? I'm a bit lost so any help would be greatly appreciated
 

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bam0813

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It never hurts to add microbiology but at the price of that soil thats " made " for cannabis i personally would leave it in the store if I still had to amend 1st run but thats just me
 
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bam0813

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Im sure its decent if its heavy add your hull or perlite etc but imo you shouldn't need to add all that stuff
 
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Benmass

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I scored it from the grow store for half off due to the delivery driver ripping the bags lol. But the rice hulls or perlite is definitely needed it's super dense soil it does have perlite but not enough aeration for sure
 
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Buzzzxx

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I also threw in 25% more perlite and 4 tbs of alfalfa. Top third is happy frog in 5 gals and don't top dress until preflower.
 
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Benmass said:
This what is in the stonington blend and I'm looking to enhance this recipe if I can. To start off it's a really heavy soil so I'd like to add rice hulls for aeration and the other added benefits like extra silica for the plants! Also bio char that's been supercharged In a compost tea. Would adding extra mycorrhizal be beneficial at all? I have some em1 microbes also idk if it's needed or not. What about rock dust like basalt or azomite? Maybe some extra meals? I'm a bit lost so any help would be greatly appreciated
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Heavy soils have abundant silica. You’re good there.
 
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piratebug

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If you are playing the up-pot game don't add anything to COM SB until you put plant in her final pot, and when you do that mix in 2 tablespoons COM Stonington Blend Plant Food, and 1 tablespoon of COM Fish Bone Meal, mix it in good, then do your final transplant and then just water with 1/4 teaspoon Epsom salt per gallon of water until chop. You can also do the same thing using COM Bar Harbor Blend as your base organic soil!
 
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piratebug

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The Bar Harbor Blend is cheap $8.99 1 cf, and in my opinion it works better than the high priced Stonington blend, but they all need to be amended, because none of them alone will bring you all the way through flower! But they will make it all the way through flower if you add 2 tablespoons COM Stonington Blend Plant Food, and 1 tablespoon of COM Fish Bone Meal to your final pot, if you do the final transplant 2 weeks before the flip!

These are all being grown with the Bar Harbor Blend with those amendments I talked about! Day 28F

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Supa Smoov

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piratebug said:
The Bar Harbor Blend is cheap $8.99 1 cf, and in my opinion it works better than the high priced Stonington blend, but they all need to be amended, because none of them alone will bring you all the way through flower! But they will make it all the way through flower if you add 2 tablespoons COM Stonington Blend Plant Food, and 1 tablespoon of COM Fish Bone Meal to your final pot, if you do the final transplant 2 weeks before the flip!

These are all being grown with the Bar Harbor Blend with those amendments I talked about! Day 28F

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