Organic Newb Advice !

Hello friends and farmers super excited here an looking for some input would really be appreciated!
Looking for advice On making a mixture of all my amendments into a big Tub and letting it
cook so that it will be ready when they need to be transplanted any advice would be awesome!

Hope this isn't too difficult question to ask thats why I provided as much information as possible

For seedlings I plan to start in a mixture of 80 percent Light warrior 20 percent Ocean Forest
in party cups and transplant after growth into bigger pots and sprinkle root zone with
Mykos even though lightwarrior has mycorrhizae I figure it cant hurt! Should I start in
party cups and then make my way to a 1 or 2 gallon pot before making it too 5 gallon pots?
Im thinking this might be safest so I dont burn my girls!

I plan on using a Scrog Method as well!

600 watt Cool Tube HP/MH digital ballast -

Vegging with a MH

Genesis 600 HPS Bulb for flowering hope its as a good alternative for a slightly cheaper and alright performing hortilux bulb that are top dollar. We shall see how this turns out!

Soil
Fox Farm Ocean Forest 1.5 Cubic feet

Fox Farm Lightwarrior - 1 Cubic feet For early seedlings

Smart Pots - 5Gallon

Amendments

2Pounds Each of idonesian and jamaican Bat Guano

Mexican Bat Guano - 14oz's

Fish Bone Meal -2.5 LBS

Bone Meal - 4LBS

Earth Worm Castings - 4.5Lbs

Alfalfa Meal - 3LBS

Perlite - 8 Quarts

Humic Acid - 1LB

Epsoma Garden Lime - 7LBS

Tomato- Tone organic fert - 4LBs

Mykos - For transplanting into the root zones!

Azomite 2LBS - Trace Minerals


Plan on using organic compost teas with left over amendments

should I just do research on how much for each amendment per gallon??

atomicDETH said:

should I just do research on how much for each amendment per gallon??

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Yes, I would recommend you consider using an 'established' receipe. I started with Sincerly420's soil https://www.rollitup.org/organics/580027-organic-growing-made-easy-fox.html. Subcool has a popular receipe as well. Sounds like you already have a number of right ingredients! You may want to consider some crab meal & neem.

I grow in red cups, then 2-gal smart pots, then 7 gal. You can drop the 2 gal smart pots right into the bigger pot; no need to remove smart pot.
I feed compost tea, use fish (neptune, alaskan), kelp/molasses tea, and have used guano teas. My favorite is the SSTv2 barley tea; plants seem to love it!

Hi Atomic,

MrWood is right, start with a tried and true recipe. Get familiar with each amendment and how it interacts with the soil.
Then you will be prepared to tweak to your liking...

Essentially you are building a composting pile using base soil mix, sphagnum peat moss, compost (worm castings)with hot sources of N and P, usually found in blood meals, bone meals, and poop. There are a variety of other meals and minerals and organic matter that will only help add to the fuel.

Your basically mixing a C:N that will cook, anywhere between 20 to 30 to 1 will do. Warmth and air and moisture are needed just as in any other compost pile you will need to turn and give time for it to simmer down. This is reflected in lower PH of soil returning to mid 6 to 7. Also the heat in soil will die down. Once soil is stable then use it.

Do not add Fungi (mycorrhiza) to soil while cooking add when transplants and ensure contact with roots.
However you can add your own Indigenous Micro Organisms to help in the composting process.

See member since 08, have you cross over from Hydro to Soil? Have you join the dirty side?

DankSwag