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beernutz

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keepafeeno said:
Australian SuperSoil Mix (makes ~350 ltrs) all inputs sourced locally:
  • 9 bags Brunnings 25ltr Tomato and Vegetable Growing Mix (American bags of soil are 40 ltrs) (https://www.leafrootfruit.com.au/which-potting-mix-is-best/)
  • 3 bags 25ltr Searle’s 5in1 Organic Amendment
  • 1.5 bags 25ltr Richgro Organic Compost (3 bags originally then screened with Bunnings garden sieve)
  • 15ltr Canna Coco Coir
  • 2 bags 25ltr pure worm castings
  • 2.5kg Fish ‘N’ Bone meal
  • 2kg Richgro Organics Phosphorus (Seabird Guano)
  • 2.5kg Richgro Organics Nitrogen blood meal
  • 1.5kg rock phosphate
  • ¾ cup Epson salts
  • 1.5 cups dolomite adjust pH to ~6.5
  • ½ cup volcanic rock dust
  • 1 cup humic acid granules
  • 4 cups Arcadian kelp meal
  • 2 cups oyster shell flour
  • 2 cups Richgro gypsum
  • 2 cups Searles Kickalong Organic Fertiliser
  • 100gm Richgro Organics Potash
  • 4 tbspn Myco Gold (includes Rhizophagous Irregularis Endomycorrhizal Fungi)
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What a crock of shit
Biggest plant you done in that soil mix ?
 
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Givingstifftothestiff

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klx said:
How would you guys go about preparing a plot on a steep slope?
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Going to depend on how you are planning on irrigating. If possible I like to have a water source, usually some 200L containers up top that are your reservoir that get filled from a dam or creek below by a solar powered pump on a timer. Then run a main line down of 19mm/25mm poly downhill,tap of it to feed each group of plants with 13mm/19mm and punch drip lines of that for each plant.
If you go for pens with multiple plants or singles spread out will depend on how open you are to being spotted from the air and how likely it is than animals will get into them.
 
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klx

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Givingstifftothestiff said:
Going to depend on how you are planning on irrigating. If possible I like to have a water source, usually some 200L containers up top that are your reservoir that get filled from a dam or creek below by a solar powered pump on a timer. Then run a main line down of 19mm/25mm poly downhill,tap of it to feed each group of plants with 13mm/19mm and punch drip lines of that for each plant.
If you go for pens with multiple plants or singles spread out will depend on how open you are to being spotted from the air and how likely it is than animals will get into them.
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I have water source and irrigation all in place so that wont be a problem. Dam fills a tank on top of ridge then there is irrigation spread out down the hill I can tap into. I will have to go for single plants spread out as the choppers are active. Not 100% sure on animals yet but gonna chuck a few established clones out in the ground in a couple weeks as sacrificial lambs.

Im just wondering the best way to get stop the soil washing away in heavy rain for example. Maybe terraces?
 
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Givingstifftothestiff

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klx said:
I have water source and irrigation all in place so that wont be a problem. Dam fills a tank on top of ridge then there is irrigation spread out down the hill I can tap into. I will have to go for single plants spread out as the choppers are active. Not 100% sure on animals yet but gonna chuck a few established clones out in the ground in a couple weeks as sacrificial lambs.

Im just wondering the best way to get stop the soil washing away in heavy rain for example. Maybe terraces?
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Terraces for sure or you can dig in some trenches/ mounds on the top side to divert the run off but I reckon terraces are better
 
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Givingstifftothestiff said:
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First lot of seeds popped and in jiffiy's, I'll start some more in another 2/3 weeks
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'Dunno what you're doing to get such a good germination rate? I've soaked a heap of seeds recently & whilst they popped initially, once I got them into Jiffy's, they just don't go anywhere.

I'm wondering whether we (in Aus.) get sent old seeds at the end of the Northern Hemisphere season. The only ones that have properly taken-off for me have been fresh home-made ones or ones swapped with other folks on here.

That or else I'm a complete plonker & doing something fundamentally wrong......:dunce:
 
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beernutz

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I stand by this stuff 100% mixed with local garden nursery compost I buy the trailer full,perlite and some very well aged chicken manure
This soil in this bag takes away so much liquid ferts you would need to add without it
All the years of growing I've never used anything better in the way of bagged soil.
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Givingstifftothestiff

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Rewerb said:
'Dunno what you're doing to get such a good germination rate? I've soaked a heap of seeds recently & whilst they popped initially, once I got them into Jiffy's, they just don't go anywhere.

I'm wondering whether we (in Aus.) get sent old seeds at the end of the Northern season. The only ones that have properly taken-off for me have been fresh home-made ones or ones swapped with other folks on here.

That or else I'm a complete plonker & doing something fundamentally wrong......:dunce:
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I just soak them in straight tap water for around 24 hours, then I get 2 sheets of paper towel, fold them a couple of times, soak in straight tap water then squeeze the water out till only a drop or 2 come out when squeezed reasonably hard, then put the seeds in and fold the paper towel over them and then into a zip lock bag. Had 2 that hadn't popped after 72 hours and some of those seeds had been in my fridge for 3 years. Sounds like it could be a pathogen issue, could try sterilising the seeds with a H2O2 mix and using some trichoderma/bacillus/mycorrhizae inoculant
 
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