Building intial living soil for KNF grow

I'm sold on using KNF methods for growing. Ive been watching Chris Trump and PureKNF videos. Im getting ready to start my first grow. It will be indoors. The one thing I havent seen. Im wondering about. Is building the soil. I dont want to add anything that would kill the IMOs. Im not sure. But do you add any nutrients to start, to the soil. This will be a no till living soil. Is there a starting recipe for a KNF living soil?
Thanks guys for your help.

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rlslmshdy said:

I'm sold on using KNF methods for growing. Ive been watching Chris Trump and PureKNF videos. Im getting ready to start my first grow. It will be indoors. The one thing I havent seen. Im wondering about. Is building the soil. I dont want to add anything that would kill the IMOs. Im not sure. But do you add any nutrients to start, to the soil. This will be a no till living soil. Is there a starting recipe for a KNF living soil?
Thanks guys for your help.

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I know some KNF people who started with Cootz mix, but I think they became interested in KNF after their initial interest in living soil. Now I'm curious too.

rlslmshdy said:

I'm sold on using KNF methods for growing. Ive been watching Chris Trump and PureKNF videos. Im getting ready to start my first grow. It will be indoors. The one thing I havent seen. Im wondering about. Is building the soil. I dont want to add anything that would kill the IMOs. Im not sure. But do you add any nutrients to start, to the soil. This will be a no till living soil. Is there a starting recipe for a KNF living soil?
Thanks guys for your help.

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Rurumo said:

I know some KNF people who started with Cootz mix, but I think they became interested in KNF after their initial interest in living soil. Now I'm curious too.

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I would agree with the Cootz mix. After having my potting soil tested multiple times, I always had high phosphorus, so I was very compelled when I found a recipe with low P. I've been adding iron and manganese sulfate to my mix lately.

MustangStudFarm said:

I would agree with the Cootz mix. After having my potting soil tested multiple times, I always had high phosphorus, so I was very compelled when I found a recipe with low P. I've been adding iron and manganese sulfate to my mix lately.

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Thank you for taking time to reply. I found a 3 hour youtube video of knf course specifically for cannabis. The instructor gives a soil mix recipe he recommends. When I get chance. Ill find it and post the link.

rlslmshdy said:

Thank you for taking time to reply. I found a 3 hour youtube video of knf course specifically for cannabis. The instructor gives a soil mix recipe he recommends. When I get chance. Ill find it and post the link.

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Was it one by Dr Bruce Bugbee

Here's the video from Institute of Natural Farming on Youtube.

This is awesome! If I can motivate you guys to KNF farming as well. This book is a great start for anyone


If i may add- Start with house plants and herbs first. Basil is a quick reacting plant for these techniques. And uptakes it well too. Basil lets you see where you went wrong relatively fast ~2days. And, lets see you where you did right. I had a 26" basil plant with 5 other shoots in 1.75months from seed. Leaves were huge and stems were thick as a pen.