Pnut3070
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Tried starting to many in to small a space will be removing all of them when weather breaks here in about a month
Please help plants not doing good at all
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greasemonkeymann
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me too, haven't used anything chemical oriented in over a decade.
Build the soil first, with premium ingredients and premium aeration and you are set from there.
water only.
no ppms, no ph, no bullshit
Pnut3070
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C I tried to do it that way but not sure if my soils good enough started with 2 bags of organic potting mix 80% humus 20% earthworm castings to that I added another organic potting soil with peat moss,pine bark,composted rice hulls,red sledge peat,worm castings,dolimite lime.and sand,to that I added 8lbs coco,8lbs worm castings and another bag perilite.drainage isn't a problem I water about a cup and a half water every other day and half runs out the bottom of my pots as far as I know my soil should be good unless you can see something I didn't add that I should have tried to use schools super soil recipes I actually think I should just be watering my plants but I'm scared there's not enough nutrients in my soil for them and forgot to put it in but in the last few days before I planted I added a 20lb bag of composted cow manure should I be feeding nutes or does my soil have enough nutrients in it
Pnut3070
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Not schools subcools super soil recipe is from grow weed easy.com
greasemonkeymann
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subcools recipe and grow techniques are inferior ways to do it man.
With that much manure in it, you won't need any food for a LONG time.
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greasemonkeymann
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it says it's composted manure, so you don't need to break it down further.
If it's truly composted.
it'd be steamy and stinky if it wasn't though.
I wouldn't add manure and worms together, cows get REALLY strong anti-worm medicine, and I know that it can kill all the worms.
greasemonkeymann
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the recipe I use is ALL predicated on having a great leaf-compost.
so I can give you a recipe that works but not the one i'm using currently.
go with the norm coots ratio
33/33/33 equal parts compost, aeration, and peat or coco.
then add four cups of nutrients per cubic foot.
2-4 cups of minerals per cubic foot.
and example would be
half cup of the following
neem meal
fish meal
crab meal
alfalfa meal
whole cup of kelp meal
whole cup of fishbone meal
then a cup of oyster flour (not counted as either nutrients or minerals)
OR a half cup of d-lime (oyster flour is better imo)
3 cups of minerals
basalt, granite, soft rock, etc.
I don;t like azomite, but that's cuz I compost, and composting can break azomite down (low ph, fulvic acids, etc), allowing aluminum to be uptook by the soil
the key is to find the best damn compost or worm castings you can find.
Fresh quality humus is MORE important than almost anything,
then aeration, pumice, perlite, volcanic rock, etc.
then you must age this soil for about two months.
I ike to age soil in their final containers, and planting legumes in the soil as it breaks down is a good idea, you'll visually see the legumes EXPLODE when the soil's nutrients become bio-available
so I can give you a recipe that works but not the one i'm using currently.
go with the norm coots ratio
33/33/33 equal parts compost, aeration, and peat or coco.
then add four cups of nutrients per cubic foot.
2-4 cups of minerals per cubic foot.
and example would be
half cup of the following
neem meal
fish meal
crab meal
alfalfa meal
whole cup of kelp meal
whole cup of fishbone meal
then a cup of oyster flour (not counted as either nutrients or minerals)
OR a half cup of d-lime (oyster flour is better imo)
3 cups of minerals
basalt, granite, soft rock, etc.
I don;t like azomite, but that's cuz I compost, and composting can break azomite down (low ph, fulvic acids, etc), allowing aluminum to be uptook by the soil
the key is to find the best damn compost or worm castings you can find.
Fresh quality humus is MORE important than almost anything,
then aeration, pumice, perlite, volcanic rock, etc.
then you must age this soil for about two months.
I ike to age soil in their final containers, and planting legumes in the soil as it breaks down is a good idea, you'll visually see the legumes EXPLODE when the soil's nutrients become bio-available
Pnut3070
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Plants budding
