DIY Soil

GodfatherKCCO

GodfatherKCCO

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Okay I've been researching for a couple of weeks now and the DIY soil articles have managed to give me tired head. Now I'd LOVE to just buy a couple of bags of ready made soil but budget constraints preclude that option so here's what I have available locally.

Soil. Rich black moist silt and clay.
Fertilizer. Horse crap compost with straw and wood dust (not chips) that has been sitting out for months.

I can buy some perlite and / or worm castings if necessary but I'd like a recipe to use to make 2 50 lb bags out of what's available so I've got plenty of good soil when I start my next grow.

Ideas?
 
fridayfishfry

fridayfishfry

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some pre-made soil mix is like $18/cuft which is silly and the pre-made soil mix that's $3/2cuft you find you don't want to use. I get good results with soil from the yard from under the grass in indoor pots but mixed with peat and perlite. Those have been my biggest grows and better flavor compared to hydro. I got great results with mushroom compost mixed with perlite and fed synthetic nutes lightly. There are many more micronutrients used by the plant in very small amounts that are not in the hydro fertilizer bottle.

My experience with cow manure is that even though it is composed it is a stinky fert burn situation indoors.I have not had the opportunity to use horse manure.

Ideas:
Mushroom compost
Leaf compost
Perlite
Peat
Backyard soil
Humus
 
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GodfatherKCCO

GodfatherKCCO

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fridayfishfry said:
some pre-made soil mix is like $18/cuft which is silly and the pre-made soil mix that's $3/2cuft you find you don't want to use. I get good results with soil from the yard from under the grass in indoor pots but mixed with peat and perlite. Those have been my biggest grows and better flavor compared to hydro. I got great results with mushroom compost mixed with perlite and fed synthetic nutes lightly. There are many more micronutrients used by the plant in very small amounts that are not in the hydro fertilizer bottle.

My experience with cow manure is that even though it is composed it is a stinky fert burn situation indoors.I have not had the opportunity to use horse manure.

Ideas:
Mushroom compost
Leaf compost
Perlite
Peat
Backyard soil
Humus
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I was thinking about going a 50% soil and 25% horse manure mix, giving it a day, and checking the PH to see what I need to add / neutralize
 
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