I do not think it takes so many things
growth = humus
flowering = guano + Banana tea
Enzymes: birdseed milkshake
regards : Tiphat:
now i'm curious...
what's a birdseed milkshake? and banana tea?
I do not think it takes so many things
growth = humus
flowering = guano + Banana tea
Enzymes: birdseed milkshake
regards : Tiphat:
The SuperSoil plan is a larger 7 gallon container with really hot soil at the bottom. This seemed to me to be a simple way around the problem. I'm trying it and will see. I'll be vegging in straight Roots for maybe 2-3 weeks. Then transplanting into the seven gal pails and continuing with veg for a couple more weeks, anyway.
@Bud-Monster, be very careful with the blood meal, it is a very fast acting source of N and can very easily burn your seedlings, not to mention running out before your grow is done. So you might want to add another N source that isn't so fast acting, Alfalfa meal is a great supplement as it also contains growth stimulants and can be gotten in pellet/meal mix which takes longer to break down. Also greensand takes YEARS to actually break down and release the K, so don't count on it as a valid source of K. I do use it personally but more for soil texture than a K source in a 3-4 month grow. And I don't see EWC in your mix anywhere, it is ESSENTIAL! Find the best EWC you can find and mix it into your soil at about 20%.
Also, I would use real kelp meal and skip the Maxicrop and Liquid Karma (both are just watered down versions of kelp meal) and cost too much. And the 0.5% humic acid in the LK is easily taken care of with quality EWC.
Here's the recipe I'll be following again:
RECIPE #1
If you want to use organic nutrients like Blood meal, Bone meal and Kelp meal...
Dry Fertilizers:
1 tablespoon Blood meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
2 tablespoons Bone meal per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
1-tablespoon kelp meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
or Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract as directed
(OPTIONAL) 1 tablespoon per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of Jersey Greensand or Azomite to supplement the K (potasium) in the Kelp Meal and seaweed extract.
Mix all the dry nutrients into the soiless mix well and wet it, but don't soak it. Use Liquid Karma and water @ 1 tbs./gal. Stir and mix it a few times a week for a week or two so the bacteria can get oxygen and break down the nutrients and make it available. And don't let the mix dry out, keep it moist and add water as needed. It'll also have time to get the humic acids in the Liquid Karma going and the dolomite lime will be better able to adjust the pH of a peat based mixture too.
With this recipe, all you need to do is add plain water until harvest.
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Instead of seperate Blood meal and Bone meal I'm going to go for FishBloodBone mix which is much cheaper for me (thankyou 99p shop), it is also 5-5-5 so well balanced.
My question is - I have made up 20 litres of soil mix as follows (45% Coir + 25% Black Gold + 30% Perlite).
20 litres is (/3.78) = 5.3 us gallons
Should i be adding 3 tbsp of fish blood and bone per gallon, which is the combined amount from the above recipe or is this too much. That would be 3tbsp x 5.3gallons= 16 tablespoons in 5.3 gallons. Baring in mind that:
1. I will be growing from seedling to harvest in it (no veg) and
2. The soil will of course be left to "cool" for about 6 weeks prior to use.
3. Containers only hold about 1ltr of medium
also at 2tbsp per gallon that works out at 10tbsp of Lime to 20 litres, sound about right?
Thanks for your help guys