Which Base For a Fresh Mix

[MindSoup]

Loads of information on Google/YouTube mate. 

[MindSoup]

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by MindSoup

[murphyblue]

Bugger i just mixed the stuff in with the compo didn't soak it.

And looking at @blackpoolbouncer recipe i didn't add nowhere near enough of it and the same with the EWC double bugger.

Plants are looking great though they been in it 8 days i have lovely lush green growth on all 4 plants.

My mix is not very PC as they say as used a 100% peat compost and a multi purpose 50/50 as my starting point.

I used the 7" pots they are now in and put 6 pots of each compo and mixed it together properly.

Then i added 4 pots full of coco and again a good mixing half a dozen handful's of EWC and about the same of biochar and a sprinkle of dolomite lime was going to add bonemeal but it was in the shed and it was dark at time of mixing.

Only used water with a sprinkle of epsoms until today when i added 1ml of liquid seaweed to the 2ltr jug of water but i only used half of it for all 4 plants.

 

I been having a bit of a pot problem to be honest hence this post i have a small area 600 x 350 i think off top of head.

Plan is to pot em up tomorrow or Wednesday.

I added mycor fungi when i potted them into what they are in now also and i checked the roots last night and can easy get away with an early pot up.

It is looking like i have 2 lot#5 f2 females plus i have a CMOG female i think the other #5 is  a male so as i have no intention of breeding yet so will go which is a pity really has he has the most good tops and proper stinks but hey-ho maybe at a later date when i know what i am doing.

I was trying to get some pots to fit into area but i just had a bit of a brainwave i have some 15 gallon fabric pots so might chuck one of them in there and just put the 3 plants in.

 

Think i will go pester the no till guys.

 

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by murphyblue
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[blackpoolbouncer]

Cahrdging it isn't about wetting. It's about getting some goodies into the charcoal. 

Don't forget charcoal is a filter used to remove imurities(looks at our carbon filters, same stuff) so when you add it to compost it essentially tries to clean the soil. It isn't locked up indefinitely but initially it wil try and level itself out with the mix. Thats why we add compost before going in the mix. 

 

If its already in the mix that's fine. Don't worry. 

Also don't worry too much on "I added a hot mor of this" 

 

I make probably 50 different soil mixes a year, nearly all unscientifically and different with the ones documented here being the only ones written down. 

 

The beginning inputs are just creating a hoke really and a bit of initial nutrients till the soil starts producing its own

 

[blackpoolbouncer]

It's a wonder anyone has a clue what I'm on about when I mash my phone screen keyboard at 7am and don't proof read

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1 hour ago, blackpoolbouncer said:

It's a wonder anyone has a clue what I'm on about when I mash my phone screen keyboard at 7am and don't proof read

 

More sense than alot of people *nonames*  who are not even mashing the phone screen bouncer 

[Flamedodger]

Would it be possible to use used soil as a medium for vermicomposting, as a means of rejuvenating it? 

[blackpoolbouncer]

@Flamedodger not really. Your feeding worms and spent compost isn't exactly much food left. 

 

You can add it to the bin but you need to be adding other stuff too to keep the worms fed properly.

 

.......or there's the living soil approach where you add food to the top of the pot and let the worms do their thing along with the rest of the soil surface life and essentially turn your pot into an ongoing vermicompost factory