Promix recycling question

[spadedNfaded]

I've looked around the recycling forum for any amendments required for this method and i haven't come up with much.

Some say amend with lime, some say you should be fine.

That being said....This is my mix.

Promix BX 1tbsp/gal powdered lime 6/2/2 promix/ewc/perlite.
Amend that with 1/2/1/1 tbsp/gal blood/bone/kelp/greensand.

After a 70-80 day strain has been harvested, Should i re-amend with b/b/k/gs?

Anyone have experience recycling LCs??

Thank you very much!!!

- SubN

 

[johnipedestran]

yes

you should add those things back in. i also would add some worm castings to my mix. but that is basically exactly the mix I used for 1-2 years. so that makes somewhere around 10 runs recycled.

peace
jip

 

[spadedNfaded]

excellent, that clears it up. If there's some residual organic material still left in the soil, do you think it wise to do 75% on the amending?

How bout lime, add that back too?

Thanks John!!

- SubN

 

[supermanlives]

greensand and bone meal break down slowly especially greensand. i myself only add those back every other time.if i vegged longer than i probably would add back everytime.

 

[johnipedestran]

i have no experience with lime. never used it.

peace
jip

 

[Scrappy4]

In would precede with caution on adding more soil amendments. My first two attempts ended rather miserably. I first re-amended at the original rates, then I added lime. Both batches ended up on my veggie garden, where they did fine. Now I run my used soil through the compost pile, and I treat that finished compost as hot soil, so when figuring amendments I leave out my compost since I consider it already hot....anyway it works for me.....scrappy

 

[mad librettist]

you can always add something balanced and gentle - biotone.


when recycling a peat mix you want some texture amendments on hand like perlite, turface, pumice/scoria, rice hulls, etc...

as the peat breaks down the mix is gonna get dense, and you need to account for that.

 

[spadedNfaded]

What kind of biotone do you recommend?

Ill keep the texture amendment suggestion!

Thanks!

- SubN

 

[mad librettist]

Get garden tone, its cheap and now has the biotone microbes.

Espoma is stingy with the spores so for myco use a seperate product.

 

[schwagg]

Start adding some compost on your recycle's.