My first organic mix

I bought some materials from a nearby garden center, headshops & hydroponic stores do not exist here, and garden centers are incompetent when it comes to actual materials, they have a whole warehouse full of pots, but barely any nutes/etc.

Anyway, this is my first mix and I couldn't access much. Couldn't find rock dust, couldn't find ewc either. Lime was told to use some of our natural soil, but I don't want to risk parasites etc and they didnt have that in stock either.

5L White Peat
5L Farm Manure Compost
2bags vermiculite(same size as 5L compost bags, you get the idea
2L All purpose compost
1/2 cup dung organic fertilizer(came in pellets? )
3/4 cup Fish, Blood & Bone Organic Fertilizer(couldn't find bone meal/blood meal/kelp etc, so i resorted to this, seems the same anyway). (NPK 4-7-4)



Edit : I forgot to mention the fact that I only completed my mix today and it needs to cook. Unfortunately the babies are at day 9 and I don't think they will last till 1 month in a cup. So I will have to transplant them into the mix 2 weeks from now, unless the rootball is still developing well.



These are the pellets, they're quite smelly haha.
My 2 babies(another 2 on the way, 1 just popped out of soil, other still waiting)
Babies are 2 26w 6700K CFLs
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Peat is acidic. When you use it to make a soil mix you need to balance it out with something or the PH will be too low. You could use lime or possibly some types of rock dusts to do this.
Various rock dusts are also useful for trace elements. Even dry egg shell crushed to a powder will help by adding calcium if you can't find anything else.
You really need to find some kelp. It's cheap and the amount of difference it makes is too big to miss out on. It's sold in garden stores, hydro stores and online so seriously look around for it. It comes in a few different forms with dried or liquid . If you are going for a liquid one, just be careful to buy a pure kelp extract that has no added fertilizer. Companies like to bottle kelp and fertilizer together but just call it a name like "super seaweed" (made up example) leaving the purchaser with the wrong idea and possibly burnt plants (unless he read the label and checked the NPK... which should have virtually no N or P in it and very little K compared to a fertilizer).
Just so you know, the rice bubble's like white rocks aren't called vermiculite, they are called perlite. Just so you know in case you go to buy a big bag one day, open it and find out it's not the same stuff

Unfortuantely there's no hydro stores in this country, not even headshops. I checked the most reputable garden store on this island & to say the least.. their organics & fertilizers section was very incompetent. That's why I'm stuck with these materials only, yeah sorry I missed out on that in the materials list there's perlite in there too. I guess I'll have to do with what I can find / have since I don't have access to shopping on the internet.

Bluelighter said:

Lime was told to use some of our natural soil, but I don't want to risk parasites etc.

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Where did you get the idea that lime would give you parasites? agricultural lime actually wards off parasites because it creates an inhospitable environment for them to live in.

Im sure that any garden supply store would be happy to special order materials for you if they do not have what you need in stock and since you cannot do it yourself over the internet. so why cant you order stuff online btw? what island do you live on?

Bluelighter said:

Edit : I forgot to mention the fact that I only completed my mix today and it needs to cook. Unfortunately the babies are at day 9 and I don't think they will last till 1 month in a cup. So I will have to transplant them into the mix 2 weeks from now, unless the rootball is still developing well.

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Transplant your little ones into 1gal pots and then when your soil has finished activating transplant again with the now completed mix into your finishing containers.