Soil mix and AACT recipe - ok?

After reading hours and hours in the world wide web and the book "teaming with microbes" (Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis) I am now ready to start with my own mixed organic soil.


What do you think about this recipe? It is based on the LC's mix influenced by Lumperdawgz, Tim Wilson and others.
The text written in orange are thoughts and issues im not sure about (not meaning to be absolutely sure about the black text), so i would love it to get some advice from you!


Basic Soil:

Gold Label Light Mix (EC 0,8 )
+10-20% vermiculite

Additives per cubic foot:

1 cup of of alfalfa meal (2/3) and flaxseed or canola meal (1/3)
for replacing blood meal (N). More alfalfa than flaxseed as of the fertilized soil; no need for concern about heat due to rapid decomposition of alfalfa?

1 cup indonesian bat guano (2-15-2)
for replacing bone meal (4-20-0)

¼ cup kelp meal (Ascophyllum nodosum)

1 tbsp mycorrhizal fungi
Glomus mosseae and Glomus Intraradices, no Trichodermae

¼ cup diabase dust

Palm tree ashes (0-3-14) for topdress at 4[SUP]th[/SUP] week of flowering?



AACT recipe (5 gallons, Bacterial tea for vegetative stage, fungal tea for flowering stage for taking up more phosphorus):
1 cup alfalfa + canola meal (equal parts)
or 2 tbls. Like microbeman says? Alfalfa replacing with yarrow after growth hast stopped and russian comfrey for further flowering?

2 tsp. unsulfured molasses
or ½ cup like Tim Wilson aka microbeman writes on his website?

½ cup earth compound (progress earth)

2 cups worm castings

½ cup fish enzyme
or 2-3 tsp according to microbeman?

½ cup mexican bat guano for vegetative brew?
½ cup Peruvian seabird guano for beginning flowering brew?
½ cup indonesian bat guano for progressed flowering brew?



What do you think is best, adding the guano to the brewer, topdressing or mixing it into the soil?


Compared to Azomite: 0.78% MgO (-> no need for epsom salt?), 3.67% CaO, 5.23% (enough for replacing dolomite lime?) K2O, 65.85% SiO2



Can you give me any suggestions for optimizing my recipe?

I am really impressed by the knowledge of the people here in the forums, big big thanks for spreading it!

Looks damn good imo. Goodjob. If you go with cico sometime I would up your ca w oyster shell meal, I prefer coco over dirt, cuts your veg time in half it seems like. This is a good read man, I havent heard of a few of the ingredients you listed but seems to be a balanced diet.

Thank you a lot for your reply!
Sorry but what does cico mean?
Oyster shell meal is a good hint but difficult to obtain here, but I have another meal here, a mix of Alfalfa, Spirulina, Chlorella and Lithotamnium (red algae which is very rich in Ca).
I don't know the exact ratio of these ingredients but Alfalfa (40%). The meal mix contains in total:


So if I add a 2/3 cup of alfalfa contained in this mix I also add approx. 1 cup of the mentioned meal mix. What do you think?
Any other advice?

ya know habitat I have a couple threads I frequent that you may find helpful sir! here's one Total Noob using teas and I am a believer and also this one So who here is growing in true organic living soil you may be able to bounce these questions off of the whole thread and get loads of support from us in the organics aact threads there also just a thought bro. Also here is another guano recipe you could try out if you'd like. You can use queen size knee high nylon stockings for tea bags. 3 pair for a dollar at the dollar store. Tell 'em you use them for paint strainers. Put the recommended tea in the stocking, tie a loop knot in it and hang it in your tea bucket. The tea should look like a mud puddle. Agitate the bag in the water vigorously. An aquarium pump and air stone will dissolve oxygen into the solution and keep the good bacteria (microherd) alive and thriving. Let it bubble a day or two before you use it. If you find you are making too much tea and having tRECIPE #3 (My favorite)
If you want to use guano tea and kelp...

Guano Tea and Kelp:

Seedlings less than 1 month old nute tea mix-
Mix 1 cup earthworm castings into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
Add 5 tbs. Black Strap Molasses.
Use it to water your seedlings with every 3rd watering.

Veg mix-
1/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano (PSG)
1/3 cup High N Bat Guano (Mexican)
1/3 cup Earth Worm Castings (EWC)
5 tsp. Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract
(That makes the "dry mix". You can make all you want and save it to use later.)
Mix with water @ 1 cup of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Liquid Karma
5 tbs. Black Strap Molasses
Use it to water with every 3rd watering.

Flowering nute tea mix:
2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano
2/3 cup Earth Worm Castings
2/3 cup High P Guano (Indonesian or Jamaican)
5 tsp. Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract
(That makes the "dry mix". You can make all you want and save it to use later.)
Mix with water @ 2 cups of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Liquid Karma
5 tbs. Black Strap Molasses
Use it to water with EVERY watering.
o throw it out, use 2 1/2 gallons of water and cut the nute amount by half. It's good to have options!

thanks for your clarification, very helpful. So I will drop further questions in one of these threads from now on. Just saw the number of pages and was kinda overwhelmed reading all through and so decided just to start a new one. But now i got instructed and will switch over.
I already have a working vortex brewer and brew without nylon strings as I've read on microbeorganics not to use them. But would be very happy about not cleaning the brewer after every use if it's working equally. Unfortunately no microscope at hand to check it..

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Just jump right in mang! No need to read the whole thread lol. unless ya wanna its overwhelming for sure! I look forward to seeing you around!