Johnei
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Johnei's Organic Soil Mix
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70% Promix BX/HP
20% Perlite
10% Worm Castings - (Red worms/African Nightcrawler mix) Provides a slow release of NPK and all trace minerals and is packed with huge amounts of unique diverse beneficial bacteria and fungi for soil and plant growth that strengthen, protect and increase uptake of nutrients in the rhizosphere. Also used to spray on leaves as a microbial protection coating layer killing most biting insects from the inside out and inhibiting bad fungi and disease from taking hold. The best!)
1 TBSP/gal Dolomite Lime powder + 1 tsp/gal Dolomite Lime pellets - (Long term pH stabilization and provides Ca and Mg slow release as the Lime is neutralizing the acidic peat moss base.)
1 TBSP/gal Kelp Meal - (Packed with all trace minerals, has low slow release NPK value, many growth hormones and auxins, and things not even identified by science yet. It's an amazing microbe food source that provides carbohydrates and proteins and a lot more. Amazing for plants.)
1 TBSP/gal Glacial Rock Dust - (Every single mineral on earth you can think of.)
2 TBSP/gal Alfalfa Meal - (Hot, soil must have composting time before use min. 2 weeks. Excellent Nitrogen source. Also has low levels of phosphorus and potassium and tons of micronutrients, vitamins, and a special plant growth hormone Triacontanol. It heats up the soil from within so composting quickens and metabolic microbe and plant functions speed up and is an extremly good food source for microbes containing proteins, enzymes and carbohhydrates.)
2 TBSP/gal Fish Bone Meal - (High P and Ca. Soil holds on to phosphorus and is tightly bound within the soil's humic matrix and the soil doesn't want to give it up easy so you need more than usual compared to hydro for example. Uptake of phosphorus for plants growing in soil is difficult and only happens with the help of microbes. Phosphorus levels are extremly high in bone and so is Calcium. I use organic fish bone meal to avoid nasty antibiotics or other crap like synthetic growth hormone boosters in the fish that they most likely gave the fish while it was still alive and residue could be in the bone. I do not and never will use steamed bone meal from cows, ever. Disgusting.)
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Guanos:
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Next few things are only for compost tea brewing because the dust is gross to be spreading over the soil if you breath it in, and also is quite expensive in quantity so I stretch the products by only using in compost tea brewing so as to draw out and expand the microbe army from these products and inoculate the soil with it even though the soil is rich in life already. They are each not only rich in their own unique diverse microbes but are all rich in NPK and every other micronutrient and tons other goodies for plants. Guano is the best 'shit' there is. Some people are against using it for 'tree hugging' purposes saying harvesting of the guano destroys bat ecosystems blahblah.
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Mexican High N Bat guano - (Quickly available N and practicaly every micronutrient, Can fry plants if not careful. High levels of unique diverse microbes and chitin from the insects these bats eat = Systemic Aquired Resistance SAR response in plants which makes them more resistant to bugs, disease, drought, cold etc. flips on their immune system like a cheat to trick and force the plant to already make fighter cells before an attack happens so they're stronger. The compounds in the insect exoskeleton make the plant believe it is under attack.)
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Indonesian High P guano - (High levels of unique diverse microbes and special compounds only found in unique fruiting trees of the jungle/forests of Indonesia that these bats eat from. Nothing compares. This is only used in teas and for top dressing and watering in during flower sometimes if needed. It's the most expensive of the guano's, and hard to find. The one I use is 0.5 - 30something - 1.0. I can't even find it anymore and I only have very little left so I save it for the tea brews. Other Indonesian guano brands these days are in the 20something Phosphorus range, and Jamaican guano is even lower than that and I don't use it, just turned out that way, I have nothing against the Jamaican. But where is the most crazy unheard of undisturbed forest/jungle land fruiting trees full of 'magical' compounds and nutrients that plants love, Indonesia over Jamaica by far. Jamaica has heavily mined and industrialized guano operations. Quality is lower. Nutrients are lower.)
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Peruvian Seabird guano pellets - (10-10-2.5 Packed with unique diverse microbes, micronutrients and compounds from the ocean where these birds eat fish, and those fish eat other creatures and seaweeds in the rich ocean depths, which transfers down the food chain and why this guano is so rich with 10-10-2.5 balanced nutrition and packed with tons of goodness.)
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tsp=teaspoon=5ml
TBSP=tablespoon=15ml
70% Promix BX/HP
20% Perlite
10% Worm Castings - (Red worms/African Nightcrawler mix) Provides a slow release of NPK and all trace minerals and is packed with huge amounts of unique diverse beneficial bacteria and fungi for soil and plant growth that strengthen, protect and increase uptake of nutrients in the rhizosphere. Also used to spray on leaves as a microbial protection coating layer killing most biting insects from the inside out and inhibiting bad fungi and disease from taking hold. The best!)
1 TBSP/gal Dolomite Lime powder + 1 tsp/gal Dolomite Lime pellets - (Long term pH stabilization and provides Ca and Mg slow release as the Lime is neutralizing the acidic peat moss base.)
1 TBSP/gal Kelp Meal - (Packed with all trace minerals, has low slow release NPK value, many growth hormones and auxins, and things not even identified by science yet. It's an amazing microbe food source that provides carbohydrates and proteins and a lot more. Amazing for plants.)
1 TBSP/gal Glacial Rock Dust - (Every single mineral on earth you can think of.)
2 TBSP/gal Alfalfa Meal - (Hot, soil must have composting time before use min. 2 weeks. Excellent Nitrogen source. Also has low levels of phosphorus and potassium and tons of micronutrients, vitamins, and a special plant growth hormone Triacontanol. It heats up the soil from within so composting quickens and metabolic microbe and plant functions speed up and is an extremly good food source for microbes containing proteins, enzymes and carbohhydrates.)
2 TBSP/gal Fish Bone Meal - (High P and Ca. Soil holds on to phosphorus and is tightly bound within the soil's humic matrix and the soil doesn't want to give it up easy so you need more than usual compared to hydro for example. Uptake of phosphorus for plants growing in soil is difficult and only happens with the help of microbes. Phosphorus levels are extremly high in bone and so is Calcium. I use organic fish bone meal to avoid nasty antibiotics or other crap like synthetic growth hormone boosters in the fish that they most likely gave the fish while it was still alive and residue could be in the bone. I do not and never will use steamed bone meal from cows, ever. Disgusting.)
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Guanos:
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Next few things are only for compost tea brewing because the dust is gross to be spreading over the soil if you breath it in, and also is quite expensive in quantity so I stretch the products by only using in compost tea brewing so as to draw out and expand the microbe army from these products and inoculate the soil with it even though the soil is rich in life already. They are each not only rich in their own unique diverse microbes but are all rich in NPK and every other micronutrient and tons other goodies for plants. Guano is the best 'shit' there is. Some people are against using it for 'tree hugging' purposes saying harvesting of the guano destroys bat ecosystems blahblah.
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Mexican High N Bat guano - (Quickly available N and practicaly every micronutrient, Can fry plants if not careful. High levels of unique diverse microbes and chitin from the insects these bats eat = Systemic Aquired Resistance SAR response in plants which makes them more resistant to bugs, disease, drought, cold etc. flips on their immune system like a cheat to trick and force the plant to already make fighter cells before an attack happens so they're stronger. The compounds in the insect exoskeleton make the plant believe it is under attack.)
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Indonesian High P guano - (High levels of unique diverse microbes and special compounds only found in unique fruiting trees of the jungle/forests of Indonesia that these bats eat from. Nothing compares. This is only used in teas and for top dressing and watering in during flower sometimes if needed. It's the most expensive of the guano's, and hard to find. The one I use is 0.5 - 30something - 1.0. I can't even find it anymore and I only have very little left so I save it for the tea brews. Other Indonesian guano brands these days are in the 20something Phosphorus range, and Jamaican guano is even lower than that and I don't use it, just turned out that way, I have nothing against the Jamaican. But where is the most crazy unheard of undisturbed forest/jungle land fruiting trees full of 'magical' compounds and nutrients that plants love, Indonesia over Jamaica by far. Jamaica has heavily mined and industrialized guano operations. Quality is lower. Nutrients are lower.)
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Peruvian Seabird guano pellets - (10-10-2.5 Packed with unique diverse microbes, micronutrients and compounds from the ocean where these birds eat fish, and those fish eat other creatures and seaweeds in the rich ocean depths, which transfers down the food chain and why this guano is so rich with 10-10-2.5 balanced nutrition and packed with tons of goodness.)
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