I usually add about a tbs of lime per gallon of soil mix, I've never used hi-cal, I use dolomite or something similar to dolomite.... Also, I dont use just ocean forest, I mix it with happy frog in a bag to bag ratio.....I am having a brain fart so I cant figure out the measurements in quarts but I usually add about 6 cups of EWC's to a bag of soil, more is usually not better but with EWC's its not gonna hurt unless you go way overboard..... I think the mix of ocean forest which is coir based and the happy frog which is peat based gives an overall better base than either of them alone..... good job on the perlite as well, definitely need that, again not able to picture the amounts but realize that the more you add the more often you are going to water, you need some but not too much...... rice hulls are a good alternative. Dont go too crazy with the glacial rock dust, I use azomite instead of that and it can easily cause salt build up if you use too much..... I add a 1/2 cup of azomite to a batch of soil that contains 8 bags of soil (supersoil)..... so be careful with that stuff....
Sorry to trouble you Whitey but I was reading up and saw you'd had some personal experience in creating Supersoil / TLO type mixes. So thought I'd run something by you at the risk of being pushy. I recently posted a mix on another thread, which struggled to gain enough attention, and which has since been amended anyway. I reside in Switzerland so obviously all branding such as Roots and FFOF are unavailable to me. Here is the proposed mix:
5 L / 7 LBS
Plagron Bio-Supermix (1.2-1.6-0.35)... Contains feather meal, bone meal, Peruvian and Indo Guanos, Rock Phosphate, Maerl, Bentonite, Basalt, Kelp Meal, Lava Meal, Bacteria and Fungal. (Don't say it please; I already feel dirty using a large-company pre-mix, but some of these ingredients are SO damn hard to come by where I'm at in Switzerland, and the cost of transporting loads of single bags internationally, I just couldn't bring myself to do it)
2.2 L / 5 LBS
Plagron Bat Guano (3-15-4)... Stimulates bio-life.
50 L / 60 LBS
Plagron Mega Worm EWC... (100% castings from Dendrobena Veneta) mixed with Bio-Bizz EWC. Rich in bio-life and stimulates more of it.
110 L / 4.6 cu.ft.
Oekohum Bio Univeral Earth... Contains no peat, humus from greengoods and bark, coconut fibre, wood fibre, pumice with bio-fert from horn and semolina. pH of substrate 6.3,range 5.9-6.7; EC 1.9-2.0, 20% organic substances
70 L / 2.5 cu.ft.
Peltracom 307 Professional Substrate... VERY EXPENSIVE pH stabilized pure peat and perlite mix. EC 0.0 pH 6.0
10 L / 0.35 cu.ft.
Oekohum Cacao Gold (2.7-0.7-3 with 0.4 Mg)... A pure cacao shell mulch of sorts with much heavier mid-size chips of cacao husk, a waste product from the chocolate industry, and not sure if I can even use it( ie. too salty maybe, IDK)
50 L / 1.7 cu.ft.
Oekohum Bio Nutritional Humus (0.5-0.25-0.35 with 0.15 Mg) Rich in bio-life.
10 - 30 L / 0.35 - 1 cu.ft.
Hauert Biorga Composted Manure(0.6-0.3-0.6min through 0.9-0.5-0.9max) 10-15% organic substance from cows and horses, 5-10% from plants. Rich in bio-life. AND YES GUYS I KNOW I MIGHT TRANSMORPH INTO A MAD COW IF I USE THIS... Advice anyone?
50 L / 1.7 cu.ft.
Perlite
20 L / 0.7 cu.ft.
Hydroleca / expanded clay, smashed into more irregular bits with a hammer in a bedsheet
0.5 KG / 1.1 LBS
Guano Kalong GKOrganics Palm Ash (0-3-14) Goes a long way to replacing PK13/14, particularly so when made into tea with guano; so says GK Organics, which they obviously would, as they reckon it's a bloom booster when mixed with their guano
200 G / 0.4 LBS
PhytoGreen HumusWP ( humic preparationwith 85% immediately available humic and fulvic acids) Seriously good shit
200 G / 0.4 LBS (Or however much it takes to bring pH to correct-ish levels without going too bananas)
Crystal Top Calolite 30Cal3Mg+Fe ( It's just a very stabilised form of Dolomite with added iron I believe also on the expensive side for what it is but you don't need huge amounts and it is cannabis-specific and locked in a stability matrix to make the effect very fast-acting but long-lasting at the same time.
This will be heavily mixed then impregnated with some AN Piranha and Voodoo Juice I had round the house, along with a tea made from EWC, guano, beer ( I shit you not, the yeast and enzymes apparently crazy good for the beastieherd, but IDK), and sucanat OR mollasses until MOIST then turned heavily again and put to bed for thirty days, or as long as my smaller pots will hold my girls back comfortably but not less than 2-3 weeks. Vic of the BCGA's Super recipe only calls for a 2 week sleep, but again IDK.
Then this'll be layered at half full with a normal bag soil fill-up on the day of transplant.
Am I on the right track dude? I'd think you'd know what you're talking about as obviously you've had some experience with Super-type mixes first hand, and can I be a pain in the ass and just ask you to point out anything dead wrong proportion-wise with the mix? Like, does anything jump right out at you immediately with a voluminous 'WTF!? That's way too hot!' Any guidance you could offer would be greatly appreciated mate, even if it's just a link or two or someone authoritative to discuss my concerns with . My motivations for bothering with all this are discussed at great length in my other recent posts...
Thanks Dude and Thanks Everyone Else In Advance
