Using dry amendments in making own soil

Sam sneak

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So recently I've gone dry amendments so what I do is reuse my soil from last grows and add perlite as well as coco then worm castings and bone meal as well as blood meal and also use a seedling fertalizer with everything in it as well for about I'm guessing 5weeks it should last then I start using a higher nitrogen liquid fertalizer if I veg for longer or I transplant and add a bone meal and castings mix in that soil with the seedling fertalizer which is more or less 1.1.1.1 mg is higher and calmag higher not sure off top of my head but its a lite mix so then I use a canna pk with that for flower as well after 4weeks which seems to be OK but I'm thinking of throwing in a base as well for flower hoping to give it abit more boost but not sure how they going to handle it yet what do uz think
 

Hiphophippo

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What size pots you using? The larger the better. Less feeding. I don’t use any liquid nutes and make teas instead while top dressing. But sounds okay for a basic recipe you really don’t have anything for bloom you need something high in p and k. Also are you using any microbes that help with nutrient break down like recharge?
 

Rurumo

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I recommend following a proven recipe and not just mixing in stuff haphazardly. You'll get better results using a recipe that others have already tested for you. Here is a good thread on organics with different recipes and some great discussion going on. These recipes are pretty much how people grew organically for the decades prior to living soil recipes with rock dust became popular, and they work great. https://www.icmag.com/threads/organics-for-beginners.48694/. Here is another thread to help you get started off right with a ton of recipes and good info collected from all over the place: https://forum.grasscity.com/threads/all-organic-recipes-and-notes-compilation.1421024/
Good luck!
 

Sam sneak

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What size pots you using? The larger the better. Less feeding. I don’t use any liquid nutes and make teas instead while top dressing. But sounds okay for a basic recipe you really don’t have anything for bloom you need something high in p and k. Also are you using any microbes that help with nutrient break down like recharge?
I use this as well and bone meal and blood meal with some worm castings then some canna pk 13 14 after afew weeks but I'm going to start using them as a tea I think I'm in week 3 of flowering just afew so I'm going to experiment with afew of them
 

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