AlcoholicO
Active Member
I'm situated in a part of the world, where we can't readily get our hands on most of the products that are available elsewhere and I want to make a good solid organic soil, if possible perhaps even a super soil of sorts.
So what is available around here? Not much at all, except for various dodgy chemical based fertilizer . . .
What I've found so far:
Bat Guano (no name, found in clear bags at nurseries and no idea of NPK!)
Worm Castings (delivered by a local company until we can get our own worm farm up and running)
Unofficial test: Moisture Content (%) 42.6%, Total Nitrogen (N) 1.84%, Total Phosphor (P2O4) 4.03%, Total Potassium (K2O4) 2.86%
Perlite (large bags, no name)
Vermiculite (large bags, no name)
What I can presumably make:
Bone Meal -> animal bones from dinner, dried and cleaned by ants in the sun outside, then dried till bone dry and then we make a bone BBQ when the neighbors are burning trash anyhow (I no got oven) and with a mortar pestle setup, pulverize it . . .
Blood Meal -> Animal blood, dried and heated/baked to a dark red powder.
Kelp/Fish -> not sure here...
Minerals -> again not sure here...
PROPORTIONS and Recipe for making a decent soil with these ingredients - feel free to suggest.
I did one transplant and in the new pot, used 6 cups worm castings, with 5 cups perlite and half a cup vermiculite plus a cup of dried cow poop (I think it was) and one and a half cup bat guano.
Any help and suggestions are very welcome . . .
So what is available around here? Not much at all, except for various dodgy chemical based fertilizer . . .
What I've found so far:
Bat Guano (no name, found in clear bags at nurseries and no idea of NPK!)
Worm Castings (delivered by a local company until we can get our own worm farm up and running)
Unofficial test: Moisture Content (%) 42.6%, Total Nitrogen (N) 1.84%, Total Phosphor (P2O4) 4.03%, Total Potassium (K2O4) 2.86%
Perlite (large bags, no name)
Vermiculite (large bags, no name)
What I can presumably make:
Bone Meal -> animal bones from dinner, dried and cleaned by ants in the sun outside, then dried till bone dry and then we make a bone BBQ when the neighbors are burning trash anyhow (I no got oven) and with a mortar pestle setup, pulverize it . . .
Blood Meal -> Animal blood, dried and heated/baked to a dark red powder.
Kelp/Fish -> not sure here...
Minerals -> again not sure here...
PROPORTIONS and Recipe for making a decent soil with these ingredients - feel free to suggest.
I did one transplant and in the new pot, used 6 cups worm castings, with 5 cups perlite and half a cup vermiculite plus a cup of dried cow poop (I think it was) and one and a half cup bat guano.
Any help and suggestions are very welcome . . .
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