Little update. This soil cooked for 5 weeks and had mycelium patches all over the surface when I went to use it. Plants have been in for about a week, just went into flower Friday and looking good so far. I watered them in with a very weak fish fert/ sea weed solution, for the enzymes, and some hydroguard. They're only getting RO water from here on out, hoping it carries me through, that was the point off this mix.
This is the most recent recipe, I wish i could edit or delete those other ones. The amount of alfalfa meal is the only thing that changed from the last recipe i posted. I don't remember which amount was the one I calculated , but this is what I mixed:
Base soil - USED 50/50 mix of fox farm ocean forest(1.5cuft) and happy frog(2.0cu ft), with 20% rice hulls. Approximate total amount of USED soil being amended = 4cu ft, 30 gal, 80lbs
Amendments:
Appx. 10lbs EWC (0.75cu ft)
Appx. 10lbs lobster compost (0 .75cu ft)
3 cups blood meal
3 cups bone meal
3 cups alfalfa meal
2 cups kelp meal
1 cup oyster shell
1 cup crab shell
1 cup Espoma garden- tone*
1 cup rock phosphate
0.5 cup azomite
0.5 cup Greensand
0.5 cup dolomite lime
1Tbsp granular humic acid
1 Tbsp mykos
Old plant material from previous grows.
I mixed this in a 54 Gal Rubbermaid tote. I mixed all the dry amendments in a 5 gal bucket. Then, in the tote, I layered: dirt, dry amendment mix, dirt, EWC, dirt, lobster compost, then i just repeated that order and i threw the plant matter in randomly. After half the soil was used, I mixed it up by hand. Then I did layers again till I was out of dirt. Mixed the top half layers together, then mixed it all together. Watered with about 1.5-2 gallons of 1/4 strength fish fert/ sea weed solution.
Cooked for 5 weeks. Turned every week. (I suggest a second tote to transfer it to)
Add 20-25% Rice hulls before using. I mixed the dirt and rice hulls in a separate tote as I needed it.
You'll end up with around 40-45 gals of soil after amending. This is all you can comfortably fit in the 54 Gal tote because it will fluff up a little with mixing. With the rice hulls it looks like there'll be 50+gals of soil.
*Espoma garden- tone
Derived from: Hydrolyzed Feather Meal, Pasteurized Poultry
Manure, Bone Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Greensand, Humates,
Sulfate of Potash, and Sulfate of Potash Magnesia.
*Contains 2.2% Slow Release Nitrogen.
ALSO CONTAINS NON PLANT FOOD INGREDIENTS:
Contains 624 colony forming units (CFU’s) per gram of the
following species:
Bacillus licheniformis . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram
Bacillus megaterium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’sper gram
Bacillus pumilus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CFU’s per gram