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08-05-2006, 02:54 PM #2
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Help Determining Ammendment ratios
I've been searching the same path as you, L3G10N. I've googled the crap out of "organic soil recipe", etc. and saved a bunch of different recipes, techniques, advice, etcetera to my Favorites folder. I use these resources to generate ideas for developing my own organic soil mix.
Here's a few of those links I found to be helpful:
http://www.onlinepot.org/grow/goodsoil.htm
http://icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=510571#post510571
http://www.jasons-indoor-guide-to-or...oil-mixes.html
http://www.drugs-forum.com/growfaq/G...c%20Topics.htm
Regarding the materials you have available, I would go with the following rough mix:
3 parts compost (cow/mush mix)
2 parts peat
3 parts drainage (50/50 perlite-vermiculite mix)
Then add bone meal, lime, blood meal...whatever else you want, using a per gallon ratio. Alot of the recipes call for amendments per cubic foot. 1 cubic foot = 6.4 gallons and 1 cup = 15 tbsp, so.... one of the better-looking recipes calls for:
1 cup/cu ft for bone and blood meal (about 2 tbsp/gal soil)
1.5 cup/cu ft for lime (about 3 tbsp/gal soil)
You might want to add some kelp meal (2 tbsp/gal) and/or a bit of wood ash for micronutes and trace elements.
I personally am adding kelp meal, wood ash, dry molasses and mycorrhizae fungus to my mix and plan to give supplemental feedings of manure/guano tea during veg and flower.
The more peat(acidic) the more lime you want to help stabilize pH. With the recipe above (25% peat) you may only want 1-1/2 to 2 tbsp/gal soil.
That's just one of a hundred examples off the top of my head. A basic soil mix like that plus regular feedings of manure/high N guano tea during veg and high P guano tea during first half of flower should do your babies righteously.
I'm anxious to try my all-organic SecretSquirrel SoilMix (see thread) on this next grow. I too used a prefert soil on my last grow and ended up with pH and nute levels all over the place. Got close to 2 ozs of nice sticky power plant bud off one plant but I feel I could have improved that immensely with a good organic soil mix to start with.
Hope this gives you some constructive ideas!
SecretSquirrel
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