Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

RedCarpetMatches

RedCarpetMatches

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Steelheader3430 said:
So would I mix all the ingredients listed below "amendment mix" to the 3 part base? Then wet and cook for a couple weeks-month?
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Excellent mix. All bases covered. Trust me on this...don't over saturate mix!!! I think this is how I got those malicious seedling eating mites. Just keep moist and turn once a week for a month and your good. You can always try any plant in your mix to see if it'll burn. I've seen this mix from somewhere...hmmmm.

When my VC takes off I'm going to try same exact recipe but with Nematode ninjas. I'm also going to cut down the lava rock in half and go with 50/50 peat n coco coir.
 
Steelheader3430

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Thanks Red! I'm trying to get my head wrapped around doing things organically (hence my presence on https://www.rollitup.org/organics/676040-total-noob-using-teas-i.html) I'm a noob and went into the grow shop before starting last spring and all the cartoony bottles really rubbed me the wrong way. Not to mention the complete lack of price tags on all that shit. I really just need to get the basics of organic living soil and teas. I'm in the fundamental stage of learning and looking forward to getting started with it all. Winter is here so the soil mixing will have to wait i think. Unless i put a trash can in my tent with a space heater in there.
 
RedCarpetMatches

RedCarpetMatches

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All these winter probs are so easy guys. Do you have furnaces lol. Can you afford a space heater(read reviews)? Run lights on open fixtures for more heat? Insulation!

And yes don't pay for bottled shit unless it's half of Earth Juice line ;) SCORE!!! Or Dyna Grow especially the almighty DG ProText!
 
Steelheader3430

Steelheader3430

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My tent is in the garage. I've been running dyna-gro's foliage pro and grow formulas. Foliage pro on my sickly ak48 and grow on her healthier sister and the foliage pro has way fatter buds. They were samples, I'm poor right now. But I'm gonna get away from all that. If I don't put my growing on hold which I might for a bit I'll probably cook the soil in my tent with a space heater.
 
RedCarpetMatches

RedCarpetMatches

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Steelheader3430 said:
My tent is in the garage. I've been running dyna-gro's foliage pro and grow formulas. Foliage pro on my sickly ak48 and grow on her healthier sister and the foliage pro has way fatter buds. They were samples, I'm poor right now. But I'm gonna get away from all that. If I don't put my growing on hold which I might for a bit I'll probably cook the soil in my tent with a space heater.
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The heater might give you mold issues, kill your micro army, or dry it out killing them again. How warm is your tent?
 
Steelheader3430

Steelheader3430

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Got plants in it right now. 74 lights on. I would find a balance with a heater before progressing. Sorry to hijack the thread. I'm gonna have to close up my grow after these are done due to too much weed and other things to focus on.
 
Mohican

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I threw some reject clones outside to die and I put them in front of the dryer exhaust. They seem to like that very much!
 
DANKSWAG

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Steelheader3430 said:
So would I mix all the ingredients listed below "amendment mix" to the 3 part base? Then wet and cook for a couple weeks-month?
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I would replace perlite with rice hulls, the dust from perlite is not good for you to breath. Plus rice hulls great for aeration and place for microbes to cling to.
 
DANKSWAG

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PURELY ORGANIC.... YUM YUM BLUE CHEESE

Just 4 tops I chopped and trimmed from my PHOGS PHASE III Journal

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klcconnors

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First time making Soil... after reading this thread for a few weeks...

Calling it So Cal Soil Recipe, got everything from around here, LA/LB/Beaches area, inoculating now with Sugar in the Raw 10 tbs/5 gallons H20:


6 cubic feet Master Nursery Organic Black Forest Compost (H & H Nursery):


  • Forest Humus Compost
    • Redwood
    • Firbark
  • Sphagnum Peat Moss
  • Worm Castings
  • Chicken Manure
  • Bat Guano
  • Kelp Meal
  • Oyster Shell
  • Dolomite Lime
  • Mycorrhizae
4.5 cubic feet E.B. Stone Recipe 420 Blend Soil (H & H Nursery)


  • Fir bark (30%-35% Aged Forest Products)
  • Coir
  • Sphagnum Peat Moss
  • Pumice
  • Earthworm Castings
  • Feather Meal
  • Seabird Guano
  • Crab Meal
  • Bat Guano
  • Fish Bone Meal
  • Kelp Meal
  • Gypsum
  • Humic Acid from Leonardite
  • Yucca
  • Mycorrhizae
4 cubic feet Perlite (H & H Nursery)

3.8 cubic feet Sphagnum Peat Moss (H & H Nursery)

1 cubic feet of Pumice (H & H Nursery)

.5 cubic feet Wood Charcoal (Home Depot)

20 Quarts Earthworm Castings (H & H Nursery) with:


  • Volcanic Pumice
  • Kelp Meal
3.5 pounds Gardner & Bloome Blood Meal 13-0-0 (H & H Nursery)

3.5 pounds Gardner & Bloome Fish Bone Meal 3-18-0 (H & H Nursery)

2.5 pounds Fox Farms Bat Guano 0-5-0 (LB Hydroponics)

3 pounds Gardner & Bloome Kelp Meal (H & H Nursery)

1.5 pounds Gardner & Bloome Alfalfa Meal (H & H Nursery)

3 pounds Down to Earth Azomite (LB Hydroponics)

1 cup GrowMore Dolomite Lime (LB Hydroponics)

¾ cup Epsom salts (CVS Drugstore)

1 pack of Mykos (H & H Nursery)


Makes over 120 Gallons (around 20 cu ft I think) for under $200 (I named brands and location for anyone else in my area who stumbles upon this thread)

It is cooking now, anyones 2 cents is appreciated, going into 30 gal fabric pots for 8 x6 Greenhouse ROLS program and potentially 10 gallon 4x4 indoor program.

I currently have a few aloe plants, along with a pound of white clover... I'll be messing around with those

plan on ordering comfrey, nettle, horsetail and growing those indoors under fluoros and outdoors in 7 gallon pots...

No frost usually, plus can plant yearround in GH... ok rambling now, feel free to add or call me out thank you in advance.
 
DANKSWAG

DANKSWAG

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klcconnors said:
Here is a link to my water source I am hoping someone much smarter than me can decipher it in the scope of growing and give me some feedback

http://www.lbwater.org/sites/default/files/FY 2013 CCR.pdf
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Below excerpt stands out to me, which means you will need a 5 gallon bucket, air stone, air pump and tubing. Chloramine is stronger then chloride which you can air bubble out so I think you need to add humic acid?

I am sure Rrog or another organic guru on this thread will know of the top of their heads...

There is something natural and organic you can add to water that has chloramine, besides you will want to make compost teas and such for organic growing so you need that hardware anywise if you don't have it
already.





adding the lowest quantity of chloramine necessary
to protect the safety of your water throughout the distribution system, without compromising
taste. However, chloramine can react with naturally occurring materials in the water to form
disinfection by-products (DBPs), which may pose health risks. Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
and haloacetic acids (HAA5), the most common DBPs, are suspected to be carcinogenic in
humans.
 
Mohican

Mohican

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I add lemon juice (4tbs/5gal) to help with the chloramine. I have seen a definite increase in vigor this year with less water. Another additive that seems to be helping is the coconut water.
 
Mohican

Mohican

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I did need to supplement the compost with a source of phosphorus. The flowers immediately increased in size over the next week.
 
RedCarpetMatches

RedCarpetMatches

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Mohican said:
I add lemon juice (4tbs/5gal) to help with the chloramine. I have seen a definite increase in vigor this year with less water. Another additive that seems to be helping is the coconut water.
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Great answer MO! I always mix in just a little molasses (also acidic) and pinch of EWC.
 
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