How to recondition soil on 300' x 300' parcel of land

Let's say you have a 300' x 300' bit of land and you wanted to plant some ladies directly into the soil. Clearly, I will dig out some holes and fill those with super-soil. But what about the soil that is there now? Is there any point in bringing the quality of the surrounding soil up? I feel there probably is; Hence I started this thread.

So I have a few months to walk around and sprinkle some magic here and there. Clearly, I'll need a reasonably large amount of EWC, and I have a couple of bags of Azomite that I couldn't use up in a million years of potted growing.

What else would you toss around?

I have heard that some people in the US have their soil tested, and I am sure that would be very advantageous; sadly I am not in the US, and I am not sure that I can get any soil testing done here.

I am in Thailand. As Thailand is a farming nation, I can readily get Chicken/Buffalo/Steer manure.

You should compost it first. But all that would be good shit.

PadawanWarrior said:

You should compost it first. But all that would be good shit.

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When we buy it in bags, it is basically a powder with no smell, some lumps of course but they break down to powder.

This means it's composted right? (sorry if that sounds like a dumb question, I have never composted any shit! haha).

LoveBudz420 said:

When we buy it in bags, it is basically a powder with no smell, some lumps of course but they break down to powder.

This means it's composted right? (sorry if that sounds like a dumb question, I have never composted any shit! haha).

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Sounds like its composted, but I'm no expert.

If there's no smell then it's fully composted and ready to use. Don't use EWC unless you're making them yourself, the money would be better spent amending the soil to make it ideal for the native bugs and microbes to colonize. You really want to look at practices specific to your region to figure out the ideal way to garden. What I'd do here is going to be very different then the best way to treat your soil unless you also have a heavy clay soil, 120-150 day growing season that's fairly dry sandwiched between a wet spring and fall followed by a dormant winter period with lots of snow to recharge the water table in the spring... Even growing in Ontario vs the west coast in Canada is completely different as the climates are so different. You might have better luck and more useful information if you look on permaculture forums as I know a lot of tropical countries attract that crowd which focuses on sustainable, low input cultivation.

All that being said if you want to describe your soil, conditions, climate more I'd be happy to try and offer some suggestions. It's always a fun challenge helping growers in other countries as you have to forget everything you know and start from the ground up working off core principles to flesh out a good system for the new climate conditions.

Soils throughout most of the country are of low fertility, largely as a result of leaching by heavy rainfall.
...The central plain rice-growing area and the delta of the Mae Nam (river) Chao Phraya has clayey soils of high to moderate fertility...

you should go outside, dig a hole, and see what's up. Don't just guess or hope peeps on the internet can give you a generic all encompassing correct answer...most peeps with a decent background in soil and gardening would avoid this thread like the plaque cuz it's just too much fkn effort to explain the enormous complexity of soil makeup perfected for cannabis growth without knowing the starting composition. You may live in a prime area and not need to do shit to the soil, we dont know.
The most generic answer is, throw a big bag of spagnum peat moss all over the place and turn it in just to get rid of compaction.

I would find out what commercial producers of heavy fruiting crops like peppers use in the area, since this doesn't seem like a hobby grow.
You can also look into other industry by products like rice and bean hulls, crustation and mollusk shells, fish byproducts, seaweed etc....

mudballs said:

Soils throughout most of the country are of low fertility, largely as a result of leaching by heavy rainfall.
...The central plain rice-growing area and the delta of the Mae Nam (river) Chao Phraya has clayey soils of high to moderate fertility...

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I kind of assumed it'd be like the amazon/rain forest with a fairly thin layer of very active organic soil where nutrients are cycled through quickly as biomass breaks down as quick as it's produced. Which makes me think of biochar as a starting point, although I'd look for research based out of India before committing to anything as you need to localize your strategy for it to have any relevance.

Nah, thailand is just one massive river delta, minus the river...rich in sedimentary mineral. This is also the place for the rice terrace fields, to stop erosion. Idk where this guy lives but it's next to heaven, you'd have to try to fuck up