Tea bagging with your soil?

[maryjohn]

SO.

I just got ripped on some wonderful not quite schwag, and I am mizing soil today. I have left out bone meal and left out azomite. My plan is to put them in teabags and drop them into my containers. I'm hoping to imitate a natural source of either, and maybe give certain bone meal or azomite loving microbes a chance to manage a distinct sphere to their liking. I also am hoping to really give the mycorrhizae question a little bit of data.

15 quarts peat (i may have put 18 by mistake)
9 quarts perlite
6 quarts kelp and shrimp compost
some wormcastings and coco (about a qt and a half in this cubic foot)
2.25 cups biotone
1 cup kelp meal
some bokashi bran
1/2 cup blood meal
a cup and a third dolomite lime
1/2 cup gypsum

wetted with a homemade EWC slurry (no time for tea) enriched with barley malt (out of molasses).

It's going to sit for about a month I think.



comments? questions? info?

 

[Microbeman]

I hope you find your mizing soil > smirk

barley malt? pourquoi?

 

[maryjohn]

barley malt - I bought it for chocolate milk, but I am out of molasses so I figure why not. It's a syrup, not the processed stuff.

food for microbes.

 

[VerdantGreen]

just bury a dead rat under the plant and be done with it

V.

 

[magiccannabus]

That's VerdantGreen's real secret to how he makes so much bud with a organic scrog. Dead rats..... go figure! Rats are full of OTH-21B, a compound that makes awesome buds basically. It's real science, mmmmkay.....

 

[maryjohn]

I did have a rat in my worm bin...

 

[maryjohn]

for anyone wondering, bio-tone consists of the following:

Feather meal, Dehydrated Manure, Bone Meal, Alfalfa meal, Greensand, Humate, Crab Meal, Cocoa Meal, and Sulfate of Potash magnesia.

then it's got a bunch of microbes including endo and ecto mycorrhizal fungi.

Is this a waste of time given the bonemeal in the bio-tone? It's listed 4-3-3. We shall see!

 

[ehonda187]

I use the bio tone as well this run to see what the difference will be. It made a huge difference in my tomato plants this year. Can't hurt to experiment a little.

 

[cosmiccowboy]

just bury a dead rat under the plant and be done with it

V.

vg,thanks for the good laugh..i think maryjohn might be smokin somethin,hehehe.