how do you cook a Super Soil??????????

[slayer6669]

ok i know all the stuff that goes into it but was wandering what goes into cooking it?

 

[slayer6669]

one other thing, i cant get guano unless i order it offline and dont really feel like doing that. can i use blood meal and/or alfalfa meal. and has anyone ever used wood ashes for there source of potassium?

 

[dank smoker420]

hey i cant answer some questions ive never made subs super soil. cooking just means let it compost. let the microbes break down the nutrients you put in into an availible source for the plants. ive never used blood meal or alfalfa meal. i am curious about wood ashes. do you just use your own or did you buy this somewhere? i just made a soil yesterday and decided to put a banana in the mix to give it some more potassium.

 

[PaulN'Chuck]

"cooking" is composting. How ever long sub said let it cook is a ball park estimate to what he thinks is appropriate. How many days did he say? I say you go an extra week or two. Hell the longer the better i imagine

 

[slayer6669]

hey i cant answer some questions ive never made subs super soil. cooking just means let it compost. let the microbes break down the nutrients you put in into an availible source for the plants. ive never used blood meal or alfalfa meal. i am curious about wood ashes. do you just use your own or did you buy this somewhere? i just made a soil yesterday and decided to put a banana in the mix to give it some more potassium.

yea i just use my own just make sure u burn nothing but wood in the fire u r going to use the ashes out of, ive always used them on tomato plants and they work great so i think they will work the same for meds.

 

[slayer6669]

ok i got the cooking thing figured out. now if anyone has used any of the other things i mentioned could they give me some info on them

 

[PaulN'Chuck]

Oh yea, I forgot that. Na Ive never substituted any other ingredients in the mix?

 

[slayer6669]

Oh yea, I forgot that. Na Ive never substituted any other ingredients in the mix?

thanks anyways

 

[dank smoker420]

yea i just use my own just make sure u burn nothing but wood in the fire u r going to use the ashes out of, ive always used them on tomato plants and they work great so i think they will work the same for meds.

dang i wish i would of saved some when i had a fireplace at my last place...

 

[slayer6669]

i have a bunch all saved up for my garden so i dont have a shortage lol

 

[Wetdog]

one other thing, i cant get guano unless i order it offline and dont really feel like doing that. can i use blood meal and/or alfalfa meal. and has anyone ever used wood ashes for there source of potassium?

Yes to the blood/alfalfa. Pick one or the other. I use alfalfa.

Leave the wood ashes alone till you know what you're doing better. Good stuff but VERY easily over applied.

Wet

 

[slayer6669]

Yes to the blood/alfalfa. Pick one or the other. I use alfalfa.

Leave the wood ashes alone till you know what you're doing better. Good stuff but VERY easily over applied.

Wet

i do no what im doing im just wanting to try new things. how would you apply the ashes and when?

 

[charface]

hey i cant answer some questions ive never made subs super soil. cooking just means let it compost. let the microbes break down the nutrients you put in into an availible source for the plants. ive never used blood meal or alfalfa meal. i am curious about wood ashes. do you just use your own or did you buy this somewhere? i just made a soil yesterday and decided to put a banana in the mix to give it some more potassium.

Gramps always got his when we cleaned the wood burning stove

 

[slayer6669]

im just going to star t a new thread on ashes so its in the title

 

[Wetdog]

i do no what im doing im just wanting to try new things. how would you apply the ashes and when?

Use kelp meal and greensand for the K. Mo Betta for you right now.

Wood ash has to be a hardwood ash and even then it's a tsp/tbl type of measurement, not something you go dumping on.

Or, get it, dump it on and learn from (painful), experience.

Your call.

Wet

 

[slayer6669]

how bout molasses and kelp i got them

 

[slayer6669]

back to the usual and forget about the ashes prolly huh

 

[Wetdog]

Just for now.

Wood ashes are great, I use them (lightly) on my garden.

But, they are very strong and easily over applied. Especially in containers. I found that out the hard way. Now, they are only used on the soil garden.

Wet

 

[knnthc93]

I was thinking about adding langbeinite, (P and sulfur) and forest humus to the mix

 

[SpicySativa]

The guano is a source of phosphorus, so NO, you cannot substitute blood or alfalfa meal. Both are good things to have in your soil, but not phosphorus sources.