DonBrennon
Well-Known Member
I'm planning a bit of an experiment with some soil mixes which will be used in around 4 months time, I've not made the biochar yet and I've got to source the pumice yet, it's a bastard to find here, so I'm at least a couple of weeks off mixing it.
The base will be as follows:
60L pre used soil
20L wormcastings
10L Peat
10L coco coir
10L Biochar
10L Pumice
To make a total of 120L or 4.2 cubic feet, so 4 cups minerals per cuft = 16cups
Basalt/volcanic rock dust - 4 cups?
Gypsum - 1 cup?
Oyster shell Flour - 1 cup?
Calcified seaweed - 1 cup?
Bentonite - 1 cup?
I could use a little help with the quantities here, my used soil which forms half the mix is almost ph neutral on the acidic side.
This soil will then be split in 2 making 2.1 cuft each, with the following nutrients added;
Soil 1
1 cup kelp meal 0.5 - 0.08 - 0.2
1 cup neem meal 4 - 1 - 1
1 cup Insect Frass 3 - 2 - 3
1 cup Comfrey meal 0.7 - 0.2 - 1.2
Soil 2
1 cup kelp meal
1 cup neem meal
1/2 cup krill meal*
1/2 cup fish meal*
1/2 cup hempseed meal*
1/2 cup silkworm chrysalis meal*
* these are all cheap and easily available from the local fishing bait shop.
Do you think I should up the calcium carbonate/oyster content in my mineral mix to compensate for lack of crabshell meal?
I 'can' get neptunes crabshell meal imported from France, which has obviously previously been imported from the USA, but the shipping costs are high and it just wouldn't sit right, everything else is local.
I've got 10 regular landrace pakistan valley pure indica seeds by World of seeds, I'm hoping to grow out 2-3 males and 4-6 females(in separate tents), in 5gal fabric pots. Obviously, I'll have pheno variation and I wont be able to predict whats male and female before they go into their final pots, but hopefully I'll get a good enough split between the females in the 2 different soils to give an indication of performance.
The base will be as follows:
60L pre used soil
20L wormcastings
10L Peat
10L coco coir
10L Biochar
10L Pumice
To make a total of 120L or 4.2 cubic feet, so 4 cups minerals per cuft = 16cups
Basalt/volcanic rock dust - 4 cups?
Gypsum - 1 cup?
Oyster shell Flour - 1 cup?
Calcified seaweed - 1 cup?
Bentonite - 1 cup?
I could use a little help with the quantities here, my used soil which forms half the mix is almost ph neutral on the acidic side.
This soil will then be split in 2 making 2.1 cuft each, with the following nutrients added;
Soil 1
1 cup kelp meal 0.5 - 0.08 - 0.2
1 cup neem meal 4 - 1 - 1
1 cup Insect Frass 3 - 2 - 3
1 cup Comfrey meal 0.7 - 0.2 - 1.2
Soil 2
1 cup kelp meal
1 cup neem meal
1/2 cup krill meal*
1/2 cup fish meal*
1/2 cup hempseed meal*
1/2 cup silkworm chrysalis meal*
* these are all cheap and easily available from the local fishing bait shop.
Do you think I should up the calcium carbonate/oyster content in my mineral mix to compensate for lack of crabshell meal?
I 'can' get neptunes crabshell meal imported from France, which has obviously previously been imported from the USA, but the shipping costs are high and it just wouldn't sit right, everything else is local.
I've got 10 regular landrace pakistan valley pure indica seeds by World of seeds, I'm hoping to grow out 2-3 males and 4-6 females(in separate tents), in 5gal fabric pots. Obviously, I'll have pheno variation and I wont be able to predict whats male and female before they go into their final pots, but hopefully I'll get a good enough split between the females in the 2 different soils to give an indication of performance.