growing medium, ill pay for ingredients

came home with some chicken manure, steer manure, peat moss with coir, vermiculite, mushroom compost, sphagnum peat moss, age old grow dry-fruit 2-10-20 derived from meat and bone, composted poultry manure, blood meal, bone meal, potassium sulfate and humic acid. how would you use these ingredients?

take that peat moss and coir. take an amount of mushroom compost equal to a third that of the peat. Mix that in. Forget the spaughm. Mix in an amount of steer and chicken sperately equal to an eigth of the total mix now. Now add 1 cup of dry age old to a cubic foot (7gallons) of your soil mix. Then mix in a bunch of perlite. A lot of it. Then add some more chicken manure for fun. Not a lot but some handfuls cuz yu may need more N and I am guessing that has some. Wet it and let it soak fior a few weeks.


no money, but some rep will be nice.

what does letting it soak do?

should i keep a lid on my compost mix when soaking?

lol, you need to let it "cook". It gives the bacteria and the fungi to start breaking down the soil. In organics we feed the soil, the soil feeds the plants. To do this the soil needs to build up a soil food web so the plant can call on what it needs. So we let ic cook to give the bacteria moslty chances to get working and estblished. Otherwise it will mostly just sit there. The plant.

well i need to keep it inside. i dont want to keep it outside because of possible bugs taking over. should i keep a lid on it?

whoa pardner! This aint compost. THis is soil and this is a standard method in all gardening to ready the soil. Compost is something else/ Keep it covered but with the lid crackerd. Once a week mix it all up. You should read subcool and his thread "super soil"/

i mixed the the ingredients with the ratios you recommended. i will nw call it soil, im going to keep it in my garage. covered and slighty moist...correct? do you have a direct link to super soil?

it should be stickied in the organic section subforum subcools old school organics

tea tree said:

lol, you need to let it "cook". It gives the bacteria and the fungi to start breaking down the soil. In organics we feed the soil, the soil feeds the plants. To do this the soil needs to build up a soil food web so the plant can call on what it needs. So we let ic cook to give the bacteria moslty chances to get working and estblished. Otherwise it will mostly just sit there. The plant.

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Do you have any experience with General Hydroponics Sub Culture? And besides that specific product, what is your opinion on beneficial bacteria additives in general?

that is a very nice product and if you can afford it I would ay adding it to your soil is a very nice touch. It is not needed as far as I can tell yet. The composts and all the other organic ingreds with the once living and composted products have a tone of bacteria and fungi already, just waiting to let the soil "cook" to get their colonys thrive again. Also all peace of mind products by foxfarm dry materials (what I use) contain myco and fungi plus whatever you bought ie blood meal, steamed bone meal or kelp meal.

That product is prob really a needed thing for hydro or coco applications also "dead" soils. I tried to give a tea to soil that was cooked and it damaged the system by pumping too much stuff into it. Plants did not like it.

I add rooters myco granules right to the place where I am going to transplant the pot plants. It gives a fresh dose of myco innoculation which is needed for root max health. The rest is in there.

Thanks for the info bro! +rep
BTW, I got the GH's Sub Culture at my local hydro store for $13.

I tried to give you rep for that post, but it told me I must spread more rep around before giving you more.

after mixing all ingredients i should let it sit for two weeks right? then continually stir it every week?? and for how long until it is ready for use?

at least two weeks, but using lightwarrior I have had great results that same day, Sh! Tell no one! lol.

Has anyone ever used Greensand? I'm still a beginner but on my first grow I bought some greensand and bone meal for the flowering stage. I simply added it to the top couple of inches of topsoil and hoped watering would do the rest. problem with this stuff is that it gets hard as hell when it dries. I am starting grow number two, and am attempting the dutch method (12/12 from the start, no veg nutes, only flowering.) Even just adding the smallest bit od greensand and bone meal to my soil is making it rock hard, I've wasted probly 4 germinated seeds so far due to them never sprouting. The beginning is the easiest part! Agh. Also, what do you think about adding a couple of red wiggler worms to the mix instead of buying the castings?

what is lightwarrior?

light warrior is foxfarm soil