For My Education ONLY. Future super soil organic grow

RollinK

Member
Hi All, I’m completely new to this world. In growing, anyway. I live in a place where it’s not legal (yet) but have been & will continue to study & educate myself as much as possible, before even thinking of growing. We may even end up moving to a legal state before it becomes legal here Anyway..

I want to grow organically & ultimately minimize having to add Almost Anything to the soil after transplanting to their final home; which I suppose will either be 5 or 7 Gallon pots. I do realize that eventually I will end up having to give nutes but hopefully not until flower & even then I’d like to keep that at a

I have a list of things that I either have already or plan to get at a later date. My partner & I have a collection of about 30 or so houseplants so we do have juuuuust a few things.

I plan to have my super soil made in like a 15G tub with the below ingredients & plan to “cook” (water/tea & turn) every other day.

Soil & amendments:

*Base soil: Promix (.30-.05-.10), perlite (.07-.07-.07), worm castings (.8-0-0)
*Lime
*Alfalfa meal (2-0-2)
*Tomato tone (3-4-6) slow release nitrogen
*Bone meal (4-12-0)
*Crab meal (4-3-0)
*Neem seed meal (6-1-2)
*Langbeinite (0-0-22)

Im wondering, would this make a decent SS? If not, what’s missing & or is there anything that should be taken out or substituted?

I also plan to water with only distilled water, (when using water). I’d actually like to use PURE, 100% coconut water, (as much as possible) as I’ve read a few threads pointing out some great benefits of using it!
I, of course, also plan to use tea(S):
-banana tea
-earthworm castings tea with molasses
-stump tea (from HTG supply)

and anything else I research before beginning.

I have plenty of time but would love to narrow things down & be as ready as possible when it’s time.

I’d LOVE Any input & all comments are welcome!

Thanks in advance!
 

Hiphophippo

Well-Known Member
I would scrap the tomato tone and go with garden tone and if you’re using 5 or 7 gallon pots as there final pot you’ll have to top dress regularly the idea with living soil or super soil is the bigger the pot the better I’ve used ten gallon pots and have to top dress every other week then I used 30 gallon fabric pots and I top dress like once a month now. Your recipe is okay, you need to add some microbe life like rock dust, or recharge. Recharge will help you save on making teas all the time. I’ve used the neem seed oil before it really doesn’t add anything to it if you don’t have bugs or pests. It’s more of a buffer to eliminate pests and keep roots healthy but the garden tone has most of the stuff your adding individually already in it except for the slow release nitrogen I would just not use that all!!! I’ll tell you how I build my soil I start with
One part aged horse manure amended five years
One part coco coir
One part perlite
One cup kelp meal North Atlantic
One and half cups garden tone
One cup dolomite lime
Four cups glacial rock dust
About 18 to 20 tsps recharge

each part being 3 gallons I mix thoroughly water to a spongy feel and cover for thirty to forty days

I don’t add ewc’s until I top dress but I also use 30 gallon bags like I stated the smaller the container the more you’ll have to monitor the food intake and depletion in your medium
 
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