Ylem's Super Cocoa Grow

okay everybody. i think this might be my first official grow thread. wohoo! i've just begun this season's indoor seeds. 9 of the healthiest seeds i chose from a bunch of assorted plants. i think a lot of them are auto flowering, seeing as most of my autos gave a few nice fat seeds this year. i also realized how pointless i think it is to grow autos last season, so i thought i'd just grow out all the auto seeds i think i have.

onto the setup. i'll toss up some shots when i'm not tired as hell. the seedlings are in soil under 300w of cfls for now. i got a bunch of my old gear back from the buddies i lent it out to but they lost the ballast adaptor, 3 poles for the tent and broke the metal halide bulb. i replaced everything except the adaptor. so they'll be under cfls until i get that. i'll be running a 400w mh for veg and a 600w hps for flower.

heres what i need help with. i don't know how similar cocoa will be to . i want to experiment a bit with enriching cocoa peat and thought i'd try mixing cocoa with a bunch of awesome stuff plants love.

this is what i was thinking of working with. i already have all everything, i just need some advice on proportions.

- 50L of expanded cocoa peat
- 20L of african nightcrawler wormcastings
- 10L of sheep manure compost
- 7L of perlite
- indonesian bat guano, bloom 1-26-5
- alfalfa meal 3-0-2
- bone meal 4-10-0
- blood meal 12-0-0
- rare earth, silicates and leonardite (rich in humic acid)
- rooter's mycorrhizae
- langbeinite
- dolomite lime


any suggestions before i get started? i know this mix will be crazy hot so i'll be mixing on the light side, but i need to get it cooking soon if i want it to be ready when they start flowering. i have a horrible memory so i'll try and post updates and pictures as often as i remember.

thanks everyone. good growing

alright. here we go. the seedlings, the coco mix, and the lamp with no adapter in the tent.

Look up subcool super soil mix. U gotta let the ammendments activate for a min of 30 days.

thank you yes, i am familiar with subcools soil mix and how to cook it. i'm trying to do pull the same kind of enrichment with coco peat.

well the metal halide is up and running, so it looks like i've got some down time until i transplant in a week or two. the coco's cooking away.