Zarezhu
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Hey all, I'm just getting ready for the big push this year. Got a fairly decent sized garden I'm going to be tending, however only 6 of the plants will be mine.
150 gallon DIY smart pots are to be filled with soil tomorrow and thursday, needing 900 gallons per 6 plants. Plants to be put out early May. Got 2 ATF, 1 bubblegum, 1 NYCD, 1 Purple Trash (purple trainwreck x hash plant), still looking for one more strain, which will probably be my only seed plant this year).
As I'm going to be buying all my soil and ammendments tommorow, I've been trying to figure out what would be best for the lovely ladies. I'm picking up a pallet of Kelloggs Patio Plus, which is rich in Chicken Manure, Kelp Meal, Bat Guano and Worm Castings.
1) A pallet is a hair under 700 gallons of soil. I will be adding perlite as well as garden gypsum (might possibly use crushed oyster shells instead). I could buy an extra 20 bags of soil to fill the rest of the pots, but I was also considering just mixing it all in with a yard of compost. Would this mix (85% Patio Plus, 15% compost) be ideal for an outdoor container plant? Or should it just be 100% Patio Plus w/ extra perlite?
Depending on what other ammendments they have in stock at my local nurseries, should I add a healthy portion of Steamed Bone Meal? Any other ammendments you'd reccomend?
I'm wanting to keep this harvest strictly organic, therefor I would like my soil to be teeming with beneficial microbes and such. I shall be watering with well water and possibly a bit of the Earth Juice lineup as many friends have had tremendous success with it.
150 gallon DIY smart pots are to be filled with soil tomorrow and thursday, needing 900 gallons per 6 plants. Plants to be put out early May. Got 2 ATF, 1 bubblegum, 1 NYCD, 1 Purple Trash (purple trainwreck x hash plant), still looking for one more strain, which will probably be my only seed plant this year).
As I'm going to be buying all my soil and ammendments tommorow, I've been trying to figure out what would be best for the lovely ladies. I'm picking up a pallet of Kelloggs Patio Plus, which is rich in Chicken Manure, Kelp Meal, Bat Guano and Worm Castings.
1) A pallet is a hair under 700 gallons of soil. I will be adding perlite as well as garden gypsum (might possibly use crushed oyster shells instead). I could buy an extra 20 bags of soil to fill the rest of the pots, but I was also considering just mixing it all in with a yard of compost. Would this mix (85% Patio Plus, 15% compost) be ideal for an outdoor container plant? Or should it just be 100% Patio Plus w/ extra perlite?
Depending on what other ammendments they have in stock at my local nurseries, should I add a healthy portion of Steamed Bone Meal? Any other ammendments you'd reccomend?
I'm wanting to keep this harvest strictly organic, therefor I would like my soil to be teeming with beneficial microbes and such. I shall be watering with well water and possibly a bit of the Earth Juice lineup as many friends have had tremendous success with it.
