Organic Growing Made Easy & Fox Farms Ocean Forest!

Sincerely420 said:

Nice homie! Peep that Phosphorus read a couple reads back! I think you'll find that interesting!
And hell yeah in regards to the composting boss! Sounds like a good idea to me! Maybe even introduce some worms and see how they take to it lol.
Saw one of the earth machine on CL the other day haha, hit the dude up right away and it was gone! It was only $25!

And I was thinking about buying that worm bin but paying that much for something that the simplest ppl are making DIY, just don't sit right w/ me..
So AS SOON as I'm settled in the new place, I'm gonna get to building! Composting and vermicomposting is the way to go totally sustainable for me man, just gotta be able to do is at discreetly as I grow ya know?!
Can't wait tho man! Glad to know I'll have some minds to pick lol

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I can't hardly keep up with all the juicy stuff you're posting lol.

I know when you move you'll have your hands in all sorts of good shit!

If it works like I hope I'll have worms in there too, gonna compost using the trash can upside down and keep it nice and moist. The vids I viewed seemed as if worms naturally made their way into the mix to feed from the ground up. Peep this video.

Enjoy whats left of the weekend playa.

AMEN on the composting shit. I bought a trash can and drilled holes in it. Starting to look like gold now. Just need to keep adding and rotating!

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Kudos Swag

That's a basic one. I made mine easy for tumbling.

As far as Red Wigglers, that was cake to find. Since I have lettuce growing any ways and can never seem to eat it on time I just throw it to the wormZ. I started off with 5, now I have like 10. It has only been a month !!! <WORMS THAT IS>

Yo btw, thanks for everything dude. You're my go-to-guy for soil.

I just bought a book : Teaming with Microbes and I'll be geeking out coming this week.

Can't wait to get in the worm game! Got a nice local supplier or red wigglers and night crawlers, so I'm def. gonna get it in!

My lass is getting in the game tho lol! We've got like 6 house plants now that she tends haha! Gonna pick up some aloe here soon and get that in to rotation!
But no prob man, and thank you too man! I love what I'm doing right now and I wanna be the best at it! Not necessarily better than the next person, but meaning I wanna know everything I possibly can, and why boss.
Understanding the small things makes the bigger picture easier to get for me.
But thanks for linking up sir! I've still got a lot to learn, so ANYTHING you can contribute, or that you come across and find useful! Do drop the knowledge right here!
I've been sorta hoarding things that I found helpful here.

And Teaming with Microbes is gonna do you real well! I've got that as well!

& Let me know when you get to mixing tho!

That's awesome!

I just put the order in for everything just now.

Since I'm starting this mix from scratch do I just follow your ingredient ? Minus the stuff that you re-amended?
I'm guessing - once I mix this - do I let it sit for a month-ish?

Do you have a base soil already? Or some good organic soil around the premises?
Fox Farms Ocean Forest was my base initially.

Currently being used is FFOF with the two ladies I have. But I've used nutes in it because it needed food. All FF Line though. Problem with this soil is ; I used 1 gal pots with MG (crap) to start off with (didnt know any better). So I kind of not want to use the soil that's being used now.

THOUGH - After learning that MG is bad to use, I purchased another FFOF bag. New - not opened STILL. Waiting to get the rest of the goodies in

Nice.

So let that new bag of FFOF be your base soil, which'll be 7.5gals.
You gonna have compost ready to go? And how many plants you running the first go?
You can stretch that 7.5gallons of FFOF out to about 10-10.5, by adding more compost and EWCs.

My compost is still cooking. Wont have anything for a month or two.

- 4 to 6 plants
- I can always go buy more FFOF and more EWC's if needed.

If you're gonna grow 4 plants, in 3 gallon pots you can pull it off with just the one bag.
If you're gonna go 4, you gonna need another bag. Then the mix would change a little.

And can you source some compost? They have it at 5th in the form of Ancient Forest.
And at Lowes in the from of eco scraps.

I didn't use added compost with my OG mix, but I'd recommend adding some to you have gone thru it.

Well I bought Ancient Forest since I saw it in your "recycled mix" so I figured to just buy everything on your recent mix / recycled mix.

What'cha think 'bout that

So does this mean I can just use the Ancient Forest compost instead of buying another bag of FFOF???

Nice! You're good then!
Per 1.5cubic foot bag of Fox Farm Ocean Forest
-32cups Earthworm Casting
-32cups Ancient Forest
-16cups Perlite
-11tsp Rooters Mycorrhizae
*This is your soil base or base soil. The Added EWC and compost just boosts you humus content. The perlite is for aeration. FFOF has some already within, but you'll need to add some to compensate for the added humus(EWC and compost). You can make sort of a judgement call as to how much you wanna you. But a gallon extra should be cool.
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-1.5cups Indonesian Hi-P Bat Guano (.5-13-.2)
-1.5cups Algamin Kelp Meal (1-0-2)
-1.5cups Espoma Tomato Tone (3-4-6)
*Nutritional Amendments. You can bump up to 2cups of Kelp meal, but everything else I'd keep constant as it's worked!
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-4 cups rock dust
-1 cup Azomite
-0.5cup Espoma Green sand
-1 cup Hi-Cal Lime
*Mineral Amendments.
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You got all of the above?

Yes.

Specifically Glacial Rock Dust

Everything should be here by the end of next week OR sooner!

I should really only do 4 pots though. Lack of space and I plan on SCROG'ing and topping/FIM

Want big yield with fewer plants. Not a lot of plants - then have a space issue with light not hitting other plants. Etc.

Then I think that mix right there is gonna do you a solid boss!

*edit I'm sure about that

I see that you spent about a month in "veg" time. Well from seedling to flowering. ABOUT-ish.

With that being asked. How many months can you get out of this soil - at least to your knowledge / recordings ?

Without re-amending it & nutes / teas

c4ulater said:

I see that you spent about a month in "veg" time. Well from seedling to flowering. ABOUT-ish.

With that being asked. How many months can you get out of this soil - at least to your knowledge / recordings ?

Without re-amending it & nutes / teas

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It's hard to say unless you get it tested before and after you use it ya know? And I haven't done that.
But I do know that the ecosystem in the soil will be balanced enough for your girls to thrive no matter what they are.
My philoshopy is to not go too heavy on anything in the soil other than compost or EWCs, because everything else can be supplemented as it goes..
And the compost&EWC(humus)content is the most important part of the living soil, because it's where the brunt of the microbes will come from.
The things we do add are only to feed those microbes in the soil, which will ingest the ferts we put in the soil, and hold them inside their bodies, until the roots come searching and secreting exduates so that these nutes are released.

I spent about 5-6weeks veg my first run. And I'm a tea all the time guy! I swear by them man. So I'll use them as much as I can.
SO to be honest, I can't tell you how long can I go without. I just knows it's best to reconditioning the soil if you wanna reuse it you know?! And that includes reamending. I figure each time I reuse it I should be able to add half of what I did before as far as amending it...That until I have a totally jumping batch of soil

But we don't use bottle nutes...we make our own in the form of teas!

I hear ya bro.

Well I remember you id your first run with just water , nothing else. IS that right? Or did you still use tea?

Sorry just trying to get my facts right


I'm saving all the tea from the worm farm drainage. I know I'd have to make my own - but still

That Master Gardening sectional is gonna get you right boss! EVERYTHING is there!

And I uses teas all throughout with my first batch brother!
Just got better with it as time has gone!