Reduced cooking time for soils

chronic coinoisseur

Active Member
Hello all, I'm making my own soil mix to backfill into holes for this years season.

Soil mix goes
50% peat
15% perlite
10% vermiculite
25% humus mix(2 part compost 1 part EWC)

To each cubic foot of soil I plan to add
Alfalfa meal-1 cup
Azomite-1/2 cup
Crab meal-1/2 cup
Neem meal-1/2 cup
Fish meal-1 cup
Fish bone meal-1 cup
Kelp meal-1/2 cup
Dolomite lime-1/2 cup
Oyster shell flour-1/2 cup

I've gotten a late start on soil this year and am looking for ways to help speedup the breakdown of my amendments in the process of 'cooking' and have read that soaking all of above amendments(excluding lime, oyster shell flour and azomite) overnight in water before mixing into the soil will help. I also plan on drenching the soil with compost and afalfa tea as I know nitrogen is the primary energy source for decomposing bacteria.

Anyone got any other useful tips for speeding up the breakdown process of amendments in soil? maybe humic acid? Also feel free to chirp in on my soil mix if you see any thing that needs changing or care to share your own recipe. Thanks in advance for any and all help :weed:
 

wolfpackleader

Well-Known Member
seems like a good recipe similar to what I rock. Ive had no problems just mixing all that stuff together without cooking.Also mix in before you plant so if animals dig it up your plant wont be there yet. I love bat guano,molasses,kelp meal,and fish bone meal so damn cheap and so good I swear the combo just brings my buds alive with taste and smoothness
 

Corbat420

Well-Known Member
kelp meal
Fish meal
Alfalfa meal
Worm Castings (Without these, there will be no bacteria present and the soil WILL NOT COOK)

Put the above ingredients into a bucket with water and an airstone (bubbler) for a couple days in 65~F (bacteria boubles every 20 mins in 65F). water the cooking soil with this to add a tonne of bacteria and speed up the process. it will still take 1+ months to get the crab meal and oyster shells to break down
 
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