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If anything you're light on the lime. You should use 1 cup/cf of mix and a solo cup is ~2 cups. I would add 2+ more solo cups of lime. I've grown stuff in pure crushed limestone in an emergency. Limestone is of a very mild nature and for whatever reason some act like it's a big nasty. Blood...

The soil will cook with just plain water, so missing the fish is no big deal, your tea will be fine. The leaf mold is a long term deal and takes about 3 years to finish. My last years leaves are just now starting to break down some and not look like freshly collected leaves. I use the lawnmower...

That ^^^^^^ You need a liming agent and gypsum ain't it. I use gypsum, but not for pH. The Oyster shell flour is fine, or dolomite, or calcitic (Ag), lime. But get a liming agent in there and be not concerned with pH. Yeah, I had good sucsess with regular *light* top dressings of neem this...

The very, VERY best thing you can do for your plants AND the soil, is start a worm bin. A 2' x 3' area is all you need in a out of the way spot. If you have a yard or space outside, #2 and #3 are: Plant some comfrey, start a compost pile. But get a worm bin going, like, last week or sooner. Wet

No experience myself, but that ^^^ and not just this site either. Never really heard anything negative about BMO, but regardless, I'd use the lesser amount till you see how it does in your environment. It's easy to bump up amounts. No worries ShLUbY, they've never heard of you either, so you're...

FWIW *I* add some 'tone' to every mix just for all the benefical microbes that Espoma has in their blends. Guess I'm not all that die hard, but mainly don't let dogma get in the way of a successful grow. The underlying reason was that I've pretty much stopped adding my VC to an initial mix...

This is kinda old news and I'm just going to touch on it if you would care to research out the real story. The bit about peat and the renewability/sustainability is mostly BS put out by the coco industry to draw attention away from clear cutting forests for coconut plantations and the...

Yeah, easily 3 years. But, I got a good solution, for me and have them working the whole time. What I do, is turn my raised beds into sorta leaf compost piles. After a good killing freeze, my kid 'mows' the leaves with a bag attachment to chop them up some and then they get dumped on the raised...

Cannibis is a flowering annual, not an alien being, and gets watered the same as any other plant ... when it needs it. There is no mystery to growing cannabis other than what is created on mj sites. Just about any 'straight' organic gardening site would be a better source of information. Really...

I've used perlite for over 40 years and that is simply not true. Yes, it floats, and yes, if hit with too much force from a hose, it might break loose from the top 1" or so of the mix, but to suggest that it will migrate up from deeper in the container is just repeating a myth with no basis in...

From a lot, to none You will know, when you are done Wet

IDK. Sorta fell into no till being old and having containers to big to horse around. These are outside and what I would do is add an 'overflowed' tsp of Protekt to a 5 gal bucket of water every 2-3 weeks and spot water. I kinda quit the higher weekly applications the first year or so using it...

Why? I use ProTekt in my no tills, no problem. Might try the Agsil when it runs out, but I use very little and not all that often. If you've been using them for years, I would really suggest sticking with what you know. Wet

Rrog told you, the air. ALL this stuff is airborne, Myco's too. Whom do you think was spreading Myco's around 100k years ago? You are way, WAY, underestimating just how tough and resiliant both fungi and bacteria are and they are the first life forms. Earthworms didn't even exist in N America...

Plus 1 on both Mandala and the Satori, a most spcial strain. Wet

Not the same. Tres has pretty much zero odor, which is the ONLY reason it's been allowed to stay indoors for 6 years. The last plant I grew stank like you described and my wife put her foot down. "Happy wife, happy life" and after 39 years, I'm not going to piss her off. Plus, she has her own...

Oh my! Guess I've been doing it wrong these last 43 years. But, then again, there was no internet in 1972, and certainly no "internet experts" (Thank God!). Sorry to have bothered. Later Wet

I'm just wondering if this is a joke thread or something. Yes, sorta. Most of the expansion comes from un-compacting it. Some comes from the absorbing of water, but not all that much. Dry peat actually repels water and MUST be pre wetted before use. Using it dry from the bag is a typical noob...

Does it smell? The plant I've been growing for the last 6 years has no smell. I call it Tres for the 3 bladed leaves. They were gifted from someone who they were gifted to. The 2 females and one male all had the three bladed leaves. A very short plant, 3' or so, no growing odor, and 2 hits and...

I do leaf compost, but the piles are actually the raised bed gardens. Saves effort. I usually alternate the yearly haul between gardens. Come planting time, just move the leaf mulch, dig a hole and plant, then move the leaves back. In the comfrey bed, the comfrey just blasts its way through in...