Well my worm castings is used for both, mainly as a source of p, but also because all the other micro nutrients it contains, as for the biochar its already pre-mixed in the organic soil enhancer at 20% roughly, so its bot something I can alter or am adding in myselr per se. It literally comes as about 20% pre mixed in. They said they done their tests and those were the results they got beat out of.
Well its my first go, but I am interested in mixes, so if you got one post it up (if u dont mind sharing) or dm me if you wish to keep it private. I will keep a journal though and see how it goes.
But I appreciate the info, thank uYou must have me confused with someone else. Please look back through your thread and show me where I was arguing with anyone. I'm not involved in the bickering.
I made one comment pertaining to the upcoming ban on peat for amateur gardeners in the UK. I thought that my post had merit. 2024 is not that far off. Why focus on using a growing medium that you may not be able to acquire in the future? How is that arguing. You're worrying about making a peat based blend and in a matter of a couple grows you might not be able to get peat. You would be better off focusing on using ingredients that you will continue to have access to.
Anyway, good luck.
Plans to phase out the use of peat in the amateur horticulture sector
Government seeking views on a ban of the retail sale of peat in horticulture by end of this Parliamentwww.gov.uk
Sales of peat compost to gardeners to be banned from 2024
Funding for restoration of peatlands and tripling of tree planting in England also announcedwww.theguardian.com
Here's what's growing now.
I don't know if you've joined this giveaway or not. But it looks like a decent Blueberry strain. I don't know anything about the Blue Burst seeds.
Mate i wouldnt like to share my current mix lol, think its on its third run now as i’ve been reusing, it does contain some coco, some bag bought medium which was a light mix and contains perlite aswell as shop bought generic type organic mix that had alot of small twigs included lol i’ve added charge along the way aswell as some worm castings. Plants are pretty happy and i’m adding in biosys every wk for microbes. Looks pretty active with mycelium aswell going off tops of pots.
Oh my plan was for vermiculite (seedling) most likey in a one gal, or cup even to start, then move it to one larger pot for start to finish, I would not use 100% of anything for a base to be honest, it is 50/50 mix with or you could say 40/40/20 the 40/40 is pete moss (I think its nute free) and 40% of the soil amendment, which is what has the 20% biochar in it. This company has already done their own tests etc on that product, so I will leave that for them, and then I was going to add 10% worm castings in the potting mix and 10% later on. Top dressed. Sorry I should have clarified. I am looking at some compost tea as well to be honest, I would rather do organic start to finish; but struggling on a good mix idea.
The amendments I use are single box multi amendments premixed I guess you'd call them. They pretty much cover everything so I don't buy amendments individually, i think people tend to go a bit overvoard in that area. Below are example of an all purpose mix 4 4 4 and a flower mix 3 9 4. They cover pretty much everything for me. I do add some additional lime. I use the all purpose in my base mix and top dress with flower when it's time. I do a 1/3 each for peat/compost and castings/ and aeration. Your 40/40/20 may be fine your just have to play around with it. Avoid dense heavy poor draining medium. Your roots need moisture and they need air as well. I like larger chunks of aeration material for this such as lava rocks or hydrocorn. They also provide Moore nooks for microbes to thrive.
Yeah that is why I wish to move seedling from a vermiculite mix into a potting mix perlite, but with inoculants added before during and after transplant, plus why I want to go organic, I want to keep rhizophere going. I am torn on rock dust though, some ovids on youtube swear by it, some dont.
So you add the top dressing during flowering, like I am going to do. So no transplants, just top dress and it works perfectly fine?
everybody has ideas mate, ways of working and there own learned and trusted methods. My 3rd 4th run is when things started coming together and i learned alot along the way, fuck ups actually help in my experience. My plants had very little issues this run. Never used a ppm meter or ph meter and plants all good. My advice to any one is little by little and never too much, and watch how the plants respond, after feeds after any additives organic or synthetics, we can still over donit with organics and have our medium too hot, good mix of diffrent amendments and well balanced out and you’l be good.Man so much info in here from people, its hard to wrap my head around and remember it all haha. Well the biochar was already added into the soil product (organic compost) which is just something I want to try out with 50/50 pete moss.
Sadly I am unable to verdanta 2-0-6 I was really hoping to use. They won't ship internationally
so going to have to rethink my idea.
Of the few premade/mixed all purpose and flower amendments I have on hand I can see basalt, lime, rock phosphate, gypsum. All of those are derived from crushed rocks/Rock dusts. They do add to Phosphorus values of the amendments as well as other minerals. Seems to be enough rock dust for me. I'm sure it's all good stuff but more is not always better, it's easier to figure out what you need more of but it is harder to figure out what you used too much of. I'm sure glacial rock dust is good stuff but I really don't understand what it is, i know its more for mineral value than npk. Are they going to the artic circle where a glacier has recently receded leaving behind mineral deposits on rocks and then they grind that up? Most rocks were covered by a glacier at some point, do they just look for mineral deposits on rocks?
Yes, all purpose amendments are mixed into my base mix and my base mix will get them pretty much up until flower. My first tip dress is usually after stretch, they will be a bit N hungry so my top dress at that point is a 50/50 of the all purpose and flower mix. Then I usually top dress once more about mid way through flower with only the flower mix. Hitting them with teas/microbial life ever couple weeks.
