SOIL RECIPE MEGATHREAD July 2023
I don’t keep track of measurements much, mostly go by feeling.
Certified organic potting soil
Basalt
Malted barley
Kelp meal
Alfalfa meal
Chopped banana peels
For next amendment gonna skip the kelp and alfalfa meal as I’m running out and don’t wanna buy more, and instead add:
horsemanure
dandelion
nettle
thistle
grass
And gonna start growing my own beans, alfalfa and clover. Why waste money buying it if you can grow it? Either outside or in your pots after harvesting your weed. When it’s t…
Coots Soil Mix
The following recipe is not mine, but it is what i have found to work best . All credit for this recipe goes to Clackamas Coots. First and foremost, it is important to keep in mind the quality of the inputs as 1/3 of this mix is compost and not all compost is as beneficial as you may think. This is one area not to look for the cheap alternative.
Making Coots Soil Mix
Let’s go over the recipe and then we can further discuss the best sourcing of the inputs.
Base:
1/3 Compost
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have a thirty five gallon container of used soil which has been filled with approximately twenty eight gallons of soil and three of home made biochar and two peat moss.
I have numerous amendments to add, and work compost and rabbit manure I can add as well as some horse manure. How much of each do I add?
I have azomite, alfalfa meal, blood meal, neem cake, powdered kelp, AgLime, diatomaceous earth, bonemeal…oyster shell…
So first let me explain… no, that would take too long. First let me sum up. I plan to transplant into some 5 gallon pots. The plants right now are a bit under a week into flower in 3gal pots in Better Home and Garden’s Organic Potting Mix. So looking for recommendations for a soil recipe that’s organic and relatively low cost. Roughly 8 gallons (will backfill any leftover soil from the smaller pots) under a $40 budget?
Now that I think about it, they were probably inspired by the traditional “three sisters” agricultural technique of cultivating beans, squash, and corn in the same plot of soil.
Here is a good book on that subject, if anybody wants to do some really in depth study on the traditional three sisters method, which in modern terms would be considered a form of permaculture or regenerative agriculture. The three sisters technique works over a course of years in a no-till plot, each crop fixes a diffe…
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BRIEF
this is what I use to organize my notes - I wanted to share it.
this is a work in progress and if you want to chip in with your own information, please do so.
this is my journal .
The notes are divided as follows:
A. ON BOTANY
B. ON PRE-PLANNING (genetics, par light, envir, method & medium, and fertilization)
C. ON GROWING (techs, veg, flower, harvest, cure, issues and pest mgmt)
D. ON POST PROCESSING (decarb, edibles, hash and other con…
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Welcome to the Probiotic SIP thread everyone! Let’s use this space to share what works, what doesn’t, and learn from each other in the process. I’ve been apprehensive to start this thread as I don’t know everything and wanted to do the thread justice. What I do know is, this is the easiest method I have come across and grows exceptionally healthy and tasty plants! Also, I thought it would be cool to have a repository of everything I have found and learned in one place.
OK just a bri…
https://overgrow.com/t/soil-growing-advocates/62352/6
So I didn’t get up and moving fast enough this morning to get any pics before lights out, but I will do a pic or two tonight. Anyways, here is my current soil recipe. I work at a grow shop, and an a total plant addict (cacti, succulents, and caudiciforms), so I have access to and have accumulated a lot of raw ingredients, and soil amendments.
A perfect soil mix could be made with much fewer following a basic 1/2 soil, 1/4 coco/peat, 1/4 drainage OR 1/3 peat/coco, 1/3 humus, 1/3 drainage recipes…
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Alrighty ladies and gents, since we all know buying bag soil can get quite a bit expensive, here’s my alternative to save some bucks and have a BETTER mix than MOST packaged potting mixes. .
This last year growing purchasing potting mixes like fox farms ocean forest got the job done but couldnt help but notice how costly it made things. At 1.5 cu ft (9.6 gallon) per bag for 20 bucks just added up way to quick. Taking a recent trip to my local nursery looking into my …
Happy Friday all!
I just reread this book. He uses a lot of reference items in the book: soil recipes, layering. etc. Lots of good useful information on living soil.
I photographed each graphic then compiled them into one reference document for easy and quick usage. I planned to upload it here but the file is too large and I dont remember how to compress a pdf. I am happy to forward it to you via email.
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Hope it’s useful to everyone.
Kev
I’ve been growing mostly autos with @anon4675195 but have also dabbled with some Photo-auto crosses. During that time I have gone through a number of approaches with regard to watering and fertigating. I have found Autopots to be rather hit/miss – sometimes I get the timing just right and the system is amazing. Other times there is something off and the plants are stunted. My most consistently successful grows have been from hand watering in coco/perlite.
This is a rather laborious approach, an…
Have about 2 bags of Fox farms ocean floor and want to grow outdoors in March
I know lime will even ph, but what will feed the plants in veg and bloom?
I plan to mix up each pot individually
Please add relevant material that I have missed (wiki)
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In this episode of BuildASoil, Jeremy is discussing ideal moisture content…
…and near the end he suggests searching the web for these charts…
Water Release Curves , show the water stored in a substance at
various tensions. The water content of a medium at various depths in a container ,should follow the same curves. The
tension is about 1KPa per 10cm (3.94in) of depth (0.1KPa/cm). Water...
…where I found links to this nursery operator in southern California who has some videos & a website…
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It’s really controversial to the past 5 years of living soil nerdery that I’ve been engaged in
If he would just enter the Emerald
Cannabis growers have been mostly excluded from decades of progress in plant science but hope that changes.
Am very interested in what everyone thinks.
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Cool thread idea! I like it
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zephyr
July 17, 2023, 11:12pm
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great thread @cannabissequoia . I added a citation for the book I was talking about in the post you linked in the OP.
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my favorite farmers soil recipe
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the nirsery guys video is interesting and i also noted that i might have seen the mendo dope boys adapt towards this aproach if i deducte what i saw from this seasons first show
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There’s a guy featured on a bunch of Future Cannabis Project videos(name escapes me atm) who describes a “horizon” layering of rock then sand then clay then humus then mulch … which is similar to nature. (More so than just a pot with some mix).
The mixes this Gary dude uses are on his site … iirc, a 1:1 peat pumice, a 60:30:10 pumice peat sand, & then pure sand for any pots over 12” deep…watering daily.
The daily watering is fine for a nursery but that’s laborious by hand, & kinda inefficient maybe expensive.
It’s hard to picture a healthy mycorrhizal situation in pure sand with granular organic fertilizer.(I.e trees in larger pots of sand). Wtf carbon source do they have?
If he could do a chat with Elaine ingham or Buildasoil or any reputable dope grower
(wiki)
but the science & explanations seem solid.
Cup & take top place as a first time grower, I’d drop everything & switch methods. 
I’d be more convinced.
