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MR is the only one who mentioned the industry standard, lightest and cheapest solution, that being perlite. I don't have bad discs per se, but a really healthy dose of RA in my spine Rocks of any sorts was just a non starter in my mixes. I start with ~40% of perlite, but biochar along with...

Pretty much the same as mine along with the lime. I do add a very small amount of kelp meal for the minerals and trace. Like 1/4 cup/cf small amount. I mix it in with the VC before mixing it all up. Use no manures or the like at all. The bit of VC and kelp meal is more than enough till you...

Oh, I've used guano before, but as you noted, it ain't cheap and there's other stuff that works just a good for a much lower price point. Both blood meal and bone meal come to mind.

Nope, it's untreated. Comes from lumber mills when they de-bark pine trees for lumber. Not quite a waste product, but close. Not much can be done with it other than gardening. That's why it's so cheap. The chemicals would cost more than the bark is worth. As it is, most of the cost is for the...

Outside in the garden section of HD or Lowes. ~$2.50 for a 2cf bag. Marked Pine Bark Mulch, There are also mini nuggets and nuggets for larger sizes. Out west, Fir bark will work, so I've heard, but it's not common here in the east.

Can we say fake news? Or, at least, very innaccurate information. Yeah, peeps are using rice hulls in place of perlite only to discover what an extremely bad choice that was in a few months time. Old Chinese saying: Even monkeys fall out of trees Coot really fell out of the tree with that...

Husks of what? IDK anyway since I've never used anything but the pine bark and have no experience with alternatives there. The base mix has stayed consistant through the years.

How about zero compost, 1 gallon perlite and a light gallon of peat? The biochar will also help with aeration. *I* feel that the compost is a big factor in making the mix too dense and the peat to a much less degree. The perlite provides lots of little air holes (?), to keep stuff from...

WET'S BASE MIX I learned this by rote and sweat labor over 45 years ago in 1972. There were no written recipes and 20 years before the word internet was even heard. Everything is geared to mixing in a standard (6cf), wheelbarrow. Altered slightly over the years, but nothing drastic and I will...

@MR One quick question since I've spent nearly the last hour searching. Where did you get the 14% Mg amount in the Premier peat moss? I like to do my own research, but my Google-Fu seems weak today. I've used Premier for well over 40 years, but have never seen that tidbit and I'm really curious...

More aeration. I almost always end up adding more perlite and pine bark fines to reamends. All those amendments, top dressings, VC and stuff break down and create more humus and a more dense mix as time goes on. Especially that 30% compost that's so touted. I totally agree with MR on that...

It's tedious, but not difficult and ends up being way cheaper than Promix, ~$30 to make ~10cf of essentially the same thing. I do screen the peat moss to expand it and get rid of those 'knots' that never seem to break down or absorb water. I'll dry mix in a wheelbarrow, saving the perlite till...

Have done business with them many times and they are solid. But now get my kelp from New Country Organics. A 50lb bag of Thorvin organic kelp meal is only $75, shipped, to my door. The same kelp meal BaS sells at a much higher price. IDK who supplies the kelp meal kelp4less sells.

No idea with the Dr Bonners as I can't find it locally, but with Dawn or Ivory a few drops in a Qt sprayer, a small squirt for a gallon and a decent squirt in my 2 1/2 gallon watering can. The watering can is used when making a fresh mix to get the peat moss to absorb water for the first time...

"You" might feel the need for a push, but I doubt that the plants do. Not 9 days after xplant and just over 3 weeks old. Wait 2 to 3 weeks at least, then apply 1/4 cup of that Gaia Green/2 gal container. Keep it close to the edge of the pot, not the stem. Once/month is plenty for top dress and...

Ivory liquid dishwashing detergent is the old school standby and have been using it since 1972 or so. Dawn will also work. Get the one with the duck on the label (It was used to remove oil from waterfowl caught in an oil spill). Try for unscented, but certainly no anti bacterial type stuff...

Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) ... To sound all organiky Reamend or Recycled Mix for just talking.

I drilled a good amount of 1/8" holes for the drainage. Some worms still drop through. Tried the fine nylon mesh. They go right through that as well. Had some in one of the smaller totes and was harvesting from the top down. When I got to the mesh there were 50 or so halfway through the mesh...

No experience with the worm factory 360. My year round bins are 18 gal Rubbermaid totes and the seasonal bins are 10 gal Rubbermaid totes, 2 totes/setup. One with plenty of drainage and air holes for worms and bedding, nested in one with no holes to catch the leachate. A couple of bricks to...