is this a good indoor soil mix?

[fatburt]

is this a good soil mix?i would ammend weekly with teas.....

1 Bale sunshine mix #2 or promix (3.8 cu ft)
8 cups Bone Meal - phosphorus source
4 cups Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolomite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
4 cups kelp meal.
9kg (25 lbs) bag pure worm castings

 

[HatchBrew]

I always like to add more drainage. Lava rocks or rice hulls. I avoid bone and blood meal personally due to big-ag practices/ non-organic nature.
More compost or ewc never hurts. EWC especially homemade will/can be well balanced in the NPK-realm of thought. Or rock dusts.

 

[SaBeS]

Sounds pretty good to me. Though I like a lot of diversity in my soil, so I try to add more then one source of all the main NPk.

I have some bat guano and feather meal and other goodies.

I also like adding cocoa, forest hummus, and charcoal. And on top of all of that I like lots of pearlite.

O yea and rock phosphate, and a word of advice, wear a respirator when mixing soil, especially if there is rock dust in it.

 

[fatburt]

so maybe more castings and some rock dust?how much?
id like to add some crab meal as well....

ill add guano ass a top dress and in teas

 

[ct guy2]

Next time I would ditch the sunshine mix and just get peat moss and then you can control how much aeration you want to add and also save a ton of money.

I avoid the blood and bone too myself and prefer fish meal and fish bone, as well as feather meal for slow release N.

What about alfalfa meal?

I think your Ca:Mg ratio is going to be off if you're using both dolomite lime and adding epsom salt. I would go with ag lime or up your calcium content based on your current recipe.

 

[SaBeS]

I don't make my own soil cut a buddy in colorado does but here are the ingredients. Not sure of the amounts but I hope this helps.

You can always make a soil cut and get it tested for NPK ratio for faily cheap and see how well you are doing.

 

[vapor]

seems a bit hot///

 

[HatchBrew]

you seem a bit hot

 

[DrFever]

No more then 3 cups of bone meal
No more then 1.5 cups of Blood meal you forgot peat moss

 

[Mikell]

I don't make my own soil cut a buddy in colorado does but here are the ingredients. Not sure of the amounts but I hope this helps.

FIFY

That took an inordinate amount of time to do. I need to eat more brains.

 

[HatchBrew]

you had me at blood & semen........