I thought you were referring to that, but doubted it because it doesn't have much k, only 1.5. It has more nitrogen, 4.
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First organic mix.
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outlier
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Do you have fresh pipi's down there mate? You can get a bag frozen from a servo who sells bait if you can't. I just smash the shells up with a sledge hammer and add them to my compost bin for calcium. Small bags at the servo should only be a few bucks. Free if you can get them on your beaches 
iHearAll
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Different purposes. One's slow release (mixed in soil once for long term) the other is a top dressing or mixed In the soil at a lower volume but repeated throughout the plants life.
Awesome, so ill go with the pellets. Does that mean ill add the blood and bone more then once? I was going to just add it into the soil with the chicken shit and fish crap. Is there any point putting the blood and bone in the ground in the fall and leaving till spring if it will need replacing anyway?
iHearAll
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Blood meal is pretty soluble in water so you can add a little to your waterings. Bone meal pretty much has to be dismantled to be consumed. That being said use your pellets and bone meal mixed in with whatever K and whatever calcium (if it's solids). Add the blood meal a little at a time when your plants are too light green colored. ... ps it's a noticeably smelly fertilizer when wet
Should I add it to the soil a month before I plant? Or after I harvest , so fall to spring? With the blood and bone, sea weed stuff and chicks manure pellets? Plus mushroom compost and lime.
iHearAll
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Blood? Id only use a smidge if you are mixing it in the soil. Do this before you let your soil sit. If you wait too long the rain may wash it out. Personally, id just see how your mix performs without it and supplement this blood in as you see fit. It's just really strong stuff is all.
Kasuti
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Good idea. It is easy to supplement a deficiency,but much harder to correct an overfertilivation problem before it does real damage
The seaweed is much less for K than all the other goodness it brings, like trace elements and minerals. Not much of anything organic is really high in K, but then again, not much is really needed. I also use ProTekt (a liquid silica), for other reasons, but it is also very high in K. It's also used as a pH up and something similar should be very easy to locate down there.
Blood & Bone. Bone meal is pretty slow and should be added well in advance to the mix, like a month or longer in advance. I add it in the fall to my wife's flower beds for the following spring bloom. Blood meal is just the opposite, becoming available in a couple of weeks after adding it, Same flower bed, blood meal gets added 2-3 weeks before new growth is expected to 'pop'. If you can get them seperate rather than combined it would be better, but not essential. Just make sure the bone meal has some time to break down and become available.
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Gotcha. So the seaweed is a must.
The only reason I ask about when to add is because of the back of the blood and bone it says it only lasts 6-8 weeks. So I thought if I put it in early, it'd run out before my plants got there.
So my mix now is
Rooster booster (pellets):
N-3, P-2,K-2
Blood and bone (fine dust):
N-8, P-5, K-1
Seamangus ( granulated seaweed)
N-4, P-1, K-1.5
Mushroom compost
Dolomite lime
I also have the option to add this as well if needed
Dynamic lifter (Pellets):
N - 3.5, P - 2.4, K - 1.6
I'm planning to plant the first mid September. So which would be best, adding all of them after I harvest this season? March - April, or August?
The seeds will be under t-5's for a month before as well.
I'm also going to have 25 plants.
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