What if I don't cook my soil? LC's Mix

[highyield]

Don't really have time to cook my soil. I am using LC's organic ferts and I need to transplant now.

Can I just mix up the ferts into the soil and plant? Will I encounter problems from not letting the soil/ferts cook together for a while? Any suggestions so I can transplant now?

 

[unclefishstick]

make sure everything is well mixed and use ph adjusted ro water and you should be ok,if you can go to an intermediate pot size to give the soil a chance to cook,than transplant again,maybe that would help,I transplant into freshly mixed medium all the time,but my recipe is a bit different,hope this helps!!

 

[Mr. Greengenes]

"Intermediate pot size" is an exellent suggestion. Hotter mixes can be used when repotting into pots that are just a bit bigger than the previous one. Going from a small pot to a large requires a milder mix to prevent souring while the roots take the additional time to fill the larger pot.

 

[jaykush]

Don't really have time to cook my soil. I am using LC's organic ferts and I need to transplant now.

Can I just mix up the ferts into the soil and plant? Will I encounter problems from not letting the soil/ferts cook together for a while? Any suggestions so I can transplant now?

think of it this way, when you mix all these amendments, lime and biology. there are billions of chemical reactions going on. things being held up as cations, things being processed by microbes, the microbes themselves being eaten and added to the nutrient cycle. letting your soil sit gives all this controlled chaos time to settle down some and bring balance to your soil.

that being said you can mix and plant right away no one is stopping you physically, but you wont get as good results imo. next time. mix your soil in advance. its not that hard to do it a month before you need it.

 

[guest2012y]

think of it this way, when you mix all these amendments, lime and biology. there are billions of chemical reactions going on. things being held up as cations, things being processed by microbes, the microbes themselves being eaten and added to the nutrient cycle. letting your soil sit gives all this controlled chaos time to settle down some and bring balance to your soil.

that being said you can mix and plant right away no one is stopping you physically, but you wont get as good results imo. next time. mix your soil in advance. its not that hard to do it a month before you need it.

Well said...........it's a whole little universe sorting out what goes where.

 

[highyield]

Thanks for the good info guys.

Looks like I'll be using the soil immediately but I will prepare in advance for my future grows.

 

[stlsoldier531]

Billions of Microbes...like a mini earth...a mini microbial society...all taking place in your pot...lol...the difference between their society is that when you give the soil time to cook they bring the chaos under control after some amount of time...the human society...lol...the chaos gets worse with time...

 

[NUG-JUG]

What jaykush said is spot on. I have had to let plants "cook in" to my soil and just sort of deal with it. They hurt at first but then then biology settles down and its all good.