i reused my dirt!

ive thought about it myself but come on guys $40 every 3 ta 4 months were ya living in a tin shack surely ya cant be that skint lol

I'd rather create my own, make my home made cooking as opposed to buying the pre-made shit in bottles or bags. Although it's easy to drop a couple hundred at the local Nursey, as a base to start a build up. To have 40 bags of shit send via FedX get's up there in cost.

I compost old plant matter (leaves and stalks) with the old soil in my worm boxes, a few weeks later fresh compost.

I use a 55 gal drum and mix in bout half compost, 1/4 peat moss (makes for airy soil) 1/4 fresh potting soil, cheapest i can find.

Been using this technique for all potted plants and its been working great. And i dont spend a fortune for fresh potting soil.

im glad to hear the discussion going well. alot of good info here. ya the oven is good for sterilizing questionable soil but never done it. It doesnt smell. Grow on.

-C

i'd also like to add, i compost my plant matter that sheds through the grow. i am legal medical, but just throwing marijuana leaves in the trash is fuckin ridiculous. next thing you know i gotta hassle wit d pigs, or im getting robbed, for my medicine. ridiculous world we live in.

Peat Moss is anti-microbial. Your Plant's Immunity system suffers, stress, all that shit. If you want referals, I'll see if I can find it. I ordered high dollar peat, then I heard about the facts. I'm learning.

Sadistic Incubus said:

I compost old plant matter (leaves and stalks) with the old soil in my worm boxes, a few weeks later fresh compost.

I use a 55 gal drum and mix in bout half compost, 1/4 peat moss (makes for airy soil) 1/4 fresh potting soil, cheapest i can find.

Been using this technique for all potted plants and its been working great. And i dont spend a fortune for fresh potting soil.

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South Texas said:

Peat Moss is anti-microbial. Your Plant's Immunity system suffers, stress, all that shit. If you want referals, I'll see if I can find it. I ordered high dollar peat, then I heard about the facts. I'm learning.

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Im not so sure bout that. Check your facts.


allybam - i got 12-5gal buckets. each bag of soil is about 2.5 buckets per bag. that shit adds up either way. Im considering using nursery organic soil here shortly cause its less than half the price and im amending the ffof anyway!



post your soil mixes i need some reference points

-C

I can't get the info uploaded. Maybe somebody can. See Howard Garrett's Dirt Doctor, Library, Peat Moss. It's a good article.

connoisseurde420 said:

Im not so sure bout that. Check your facts.


allybam - i got 12-5gal buckets. each bag of soil is about 2.5 buckets per bag. that shit adds up either way. Im considering using nursery organic soil here shortly cause its less than half the price and im amending the ffof anyway!



post your soil mixes i need some reference points

-C

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South Texas said:

Peat Moss is anti-microbial. Your Plant's Immunity system suffers, stress, all that shit. If you want referals, I'll see if I can find it. I ordered high dollar peat, then I heard about the facts. I'm learning.

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That's why you use sphagnum moss instead of peat.

Too bad it's hard to find in any form other than hobbyist flower-setting stuff.

KaliKitsune said:

That's why you use sphagnum moss instead of peat.

Too bad it's hard to find in any form other than hobbyist flower-setting stuff.

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I'll check today if my pro-mix has spaghnum instead of peat. I think it does indeed.

hmm well i said $40 a bag its dear were u are its £10 a bag here so no i will never reuse the soil but ta reuse soil after 3 months come on think of the doe ya savein not havein ta buy weed buyin gd quility soil is nothing u just bein scruges well unless u have ur own scrap food waste bin n worms ta do it for ye but if not ur just a mizer!!!!!!!!!!

Hey dudes,

I'm goin' to have ~50gal of used promix (with chem fertilizer salts). I'm tryin' to figure out the best ways to wash it before I add in organic goodies.

So far at my disposal I have an "unemployed" screen door, and a couple garbage cans prop up the door up. I might just spread out an amount of the promix on the door, and rinse with tap water (doh?).

Anyone have better ideas for washing out the salt?

Yeah, rinsing on the screen sounds good. Add compost Tea later, like Garrett Juice, that will neutralize the problems.

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Yeah, rinsing on the screen sounds good. Add compost Tea later, like Garrett Juice, that will neutralize the problems.

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I had planned on adding in some perlite, worm castings, and dolomite to make a base mix, and then in the goodies for Bongaloid's guano mix (see below).

"Use all these items combined with one gallon of soil mix.
1/3C hi N Guano (Mexican Bat Guano)
1/2C hi P Guano (Jamaican or Indonesian Bat Guano)
1TBS Jersey Greensand
1TBS Kelp Meal "

And water with bubbled tap + worm castings + molasses. Seems easy, and the garden store near me has a buncha cool new shit (literally).

Is the Garrett Juice just a compost tea with basic components and apple vinegar and/or citrus oil? I google'd the term and I see home-made recipes and branded stuff for sale.

allybam said:

buyin gd quility soil is nothing u just bein scruges well unless u have ur own scrap food waste bin n worms ta do it for ye but if not ur just a mizer!!!!!!!!!!

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Why waste good money on soil? You can make better soil then you can buy. My soil is full of organic goodies and it's still great soil even when it's been used, maybe even better for having been through the cycle of life.

Yes, Mr. Baker, you found the right Garrett Juice formula. There is the original, then better, seweed added, then some for pest. Don't get the pest one mixed up with the feeding formula... (Orange Oil for roots would be a bad thing.)