[Badfishy1]

Originally Posted by aridbud

If it were me, I'd cut the "meals" portions by 1/3...you can always top dress. You don't want soil so hot, it burns autos. They can be stunted or stressed if too "hot"/rich of additives.

Cut meals by a 1/3 or into a third? (Use 1 cup or 2)?

[bigganjabud]

Originally Posted by aridbud

If it were me, I'd cut the "meals" portions by 1/3...you can always top dress. You don't want soil so hot, it burns autos. They can be stunted or stressed if too "hot"/rich of additives.

Brother arid

Allways a pleasure to read your highly respected input maaaaaaaaaaaan

Fwiw +1,000,000 for what he said

[cuba]

Cut meals for one-third, like if its written three cups, you need to put two cups.

[aridbud]

If it were me, I'd use 1 cup per instead of 3 in your "recipe". Unless you are making it for a very large garden.....often times, less is more >>>You don't want soil so hot, it burns autos. They can be stunted or stressed if too "hot"/rich of additives.

Thanks, bigganjabud, for your thumbs up. Some may agree, others not. After farming for 45 yrs, I've learned, you can nute burn them with too many ingredients.
Once you see how they respond, then add more.

This is what we have in our auto grow guide for those wishing to make their own soil....you notice, "easy".

Easy Organic Soil Recipe:
To make 1 cubic foot (7.5 gallons) of base soil:

1/2 part peat moss
1/2 part humus (compost and/or ewc (earthworm castings)- can do all compost or all ewc or some mixture of the two) Mushroom compost easy to obtain: HD/Lowes
1/2 + part aeration amendment (perlite or vermiculite)
1/4 part clean sand
3/4 cup lime (per cubic foot) (~6 cups for 7.5 gallons)

Nutritional amendments: you want to add about 2-3 cups total of all your nutritional amendments per cubic foot (7.5 gallons) of soil. Note that this means 2-3 cups total, a combination of all your nutritional amendments, not 2-3 cups of each amendment.
1 cup kelp meal
1.5 cups dry organic fertilizer

[cuba]

F...k!!! I was lost in translation Got it now! Thanks for clarifying that

[Badfishy1]

Thank you sir

[cuba]

Aridbud, another question for you please...
I took your advice and made a mix with one-third of ingredients, but how long should I leave it rest (cooked)? Seance it's made with one-third of meals, does it need to be left for a month to 45 days also or it needs less time?

[Mr Jay]

Yes, soils need the same cook time regardless of the volume of ferts. The microbes still take the same amount of time to break everything down.

When I plant autos in TLO soil I like to take a solo cup or 32 oz yogurt container and press it into the top of the pot/fill in around it to make a pocket. Then I pull the cup out and fill that hole with seedling soil. I'll plant directly into that pocket of soil. That gives the seedling time to mature a little before digging into the nute filled soil.

I try to avoid a transplant and plant directly in the finishing pot if I can, but transplanting works for some people. I still do it every now and then. We used to do tiered transplanting over at AFN where we would cut the bottom out of one solo cup and place it into another. Come planting time you just lift the inner cup out and plant it into the final pot without removing/stressing the plant. Works okay.

[cuba]

Of course, i assumed that but this is my first attempt so I mus ask to be sure. Thanks
I will make the pocket hole for seedling soil, it's the best way for autos definitely! I did try transplanting young plants before but direct planting works much better for me... It's just that I'm not used to use seedling soil. I used to plant the seeds directly in large hole or pot and compost, but this is all new game in comparison to what I was doing before...

[cuba]

I wanted to say that I just started to make compost teas and super spoil...