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I bought 5x 240W Meijiu boards off Alibaba. The price wasn't horrendous (about 900 after shipping and everything). I will say in the two years I've owned them my only compliant is the potentiometers they came with are garbage. I found this out as my light would just randomly flicker... then...

I currently grow in my garage and it has little insulation and as I rent, any modification are out of the window. Last summer my grow tent averaged 90-105F and I plan to rectify that this time. I keep my exhaust low to since humidity is an issue even with a decent humidifier (trying to stay as...

Thank you all for your input. I'll update you all on how it goes! :D

Well, tomorrow I will start mixing. Wish my luck gents... I'll update with some pictures once it's cut and aeriated and dried a bit... Quick question, would it be alright to let the soil dry to let the gnats die off or will that stop the microbes from ever coming back? EDIT...

Yea I heard those were better but I couldn't find any of those two... From what I gather perlite eventually needs to be replenished. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if I started with peat as a base instead of FFOF (and cheaper), but... Lesson learned.

Heh... 20 gallons of each. I made about 60 gallons total.

I also got about 1.5 cu ft of perlite left over... Any recommendations on how much of each to add to about 6 cu ft of soil? Or am I looking for the same consistency of the FFOF base?

Is it a requirement to let it cook? I only ask because mine just sprouted and they are in small pots. I could alwags add a tea halfway through while the soil cook or is that not a good idea?

I haven't planted yet, I got the seedlings in smaller pots with just FFOF. I was just about to head to Home Depot and grab 6 cu ft of peat moss and split my mixture half and half... Is that still the best thing to do?

Yea! I used 5 gallon buckets to measure the base and a measuring cup for the amendments. Each run had 30 gallons of base soil in them and I just split the amendments in half for each since I didnt habe a 60 gallon container.

I mixed everything together when I got it first. Edit: https://www.rollitup.org/t/question-soil-reuse.1029014/ I followed this thread that I started on everything I added.

Yea that's what mine looked like when it started...

Azomite.

Well I have plenty of perlite left over... Someone also suggested cutting with peat moss. Perhaps both? I have 9 5 gallon pots of soil, so how much should I be adding? I assume cooking this for another 30 days?

So... I posted awhile back about making my own organic living soil. Well, now it's time to plant but I have some input from others that my mixture doesn't look right. I added 1/3 of Fox Farms Ocean Forest, perlite, and EWC with mixtures of Kelp meal, neem meal, blood meal, fish bone mean, insect...