Fuggzy atones while talking dirty

[Fuggzy]

Okay guys it's time for a soil upcycle. This project just started as a regular recycling, and I over doubled my soil... So I'm referring to it as an upcycle.

So my soil is about 1 year old and , and I felt like it was time to freshen it up. My original soil was made using LC mix#1. If you are not familiar the recipe goes like this.

LC’s Soiless Mix #1:

5 parts Canadian Sphagnum Peat or Coir or Pro-Moss
3 parts perlite
2 parts worm castings or mushroom compost or home made compost
Powdered (NOT PELLETED) dolomite lime @ 2 tablespoons per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of the soiless mix.

1 tablespoon Blood meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
2 tablespoons Bone meal per gallon or 1 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
1-tablespoon kelp meal per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of soil mix
or Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract as directed
(OPTIONAL) 1 tablespoon per gallon or 1/2 cup per cubic foot of Jersey Greensand to supplement the K (potasium) in the Kelp Meal and seaweed extract.

About 6 months ago I added more prelite, compost, biochar, and lots more worm castings. It increased my volume by ~34-40% all together. I' liked it much better, but still was not all that happy with it.

So today I would like to unveil Fuggy's Surf N Soil!!!


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Base
25 gallons used living soil (peat moss based)
7.5 gallon fresh coco charged with cal/mag, kelp extracts, and Earth Juice catalyst
5 gallons mushroom compost
5 gallons Coast of main lobster compost
5 gallons worm castings (5 varieties)
1 bag royal oak lump coal smashed and brewed 3 days in EWC tea
5 gallons rice hulls

Amendments
2 cup shrimp meal 6-6-0
4 cup crab meal 4-3-0
2 cup lobster meal 6-2-0
4 cups oyster flour
3 cup kelp meal 1-0.1-2
1 cup wild seaweed (unrinsed)
2 cup fish bone meal 3-16-0
4 cups green sand 0-0-3
1 cup chicken manure 3-2-3
1 cup rabbit manure ~2.4-1.4-0.6
1.5 cup neem cake
1.5 cup karanja cake
5 cups diatomaceous earth
5 lbs Azomite dust

This mix gives me ~53 gallons for my up coming grows, and some for this summers veggies. It took me about 3 weeks to get it all sorted out, but is now mixed and waiting on natures to do its part. I'd like to give a big thanks to everyone here that helped. There where a handful of people here (personally thanked) and a few from other sites. Although he is not a member of AFN, I'd like to give a special thanks to Heady Blunts. His soil is what pushed me to going with organics for starters, and my soil is partially based on his. Overall he is a great inspiration to me. So thanks big guys, your helping hand has sure came in handy! Till later guys, take care!

 

[Jraven]

Looks like good stuff @Fuggzy it should be well tested by the time i do my upgrade in the fall
I can see I'll be needing lots more good soil. I've already made more of my modest mix for Ma's containers and I can foresee the need for lots more.

 

[Fuggzy]

Looks like good stuff @Fuggzy it should be well tested by the time i do my upgrade in the fall
I can see I'll be needing lots more good soil. I've already made more of my modest mix for Ma's containers and I can foresee the need for lots more.

Thanks Jarven. Anything you see you like, steal it. It! Every time I turn around I'm needing more soil. Now I've got enough for me indoor garden, and some veggies this summer. I have some 5 gallon fabric pots that are a bit to big for my tent, so I am planning on doing about 5 of them outside with some healthy snacks. Plus my son is old enough to actually help me with the veggies, so I want to get him more interested. Last year he just carried a muddy spoon around mixing anything I touched. It was awesome, every time I went out the back door I'd hear "spoon, spoon, help, spoon" he was my lil' dirt devil! Even this batch of soil, he wanted to know where his spoon was.

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[Jraven]

Just keep increasing the size of the young fellows spoon, pretty soon it's a shovel
It's cool how some kids take to gardening.

 

[Joe383]

 

[Joe383]

Its a learning experience watching you guys recycle your soils. I don't do it yet but its interesting to watch.

So are you using the soil for more than 1 grow before recycling it again and do you use tea's during your grow?

 

[Fuggzy]

Just keep increasing the size of the young fellows spoon, pretty soon it's a shovel
It's cool how some kids take to gardening.

It is pretty cool. My great grandpa taught my mom, who taught me. When I was 5 my favorite snack was a whole bell pepper, any color. Those and baby carrots where like candy to me. I'd sneak out to the garden when my mom wasn't looking and just eat the baby carrots. I can't wait to catch my lil' guy doing the same.

 

[Fuggzy]

Its a learning experience watching you guys recycle your soils. I don't do it yet but its interesting to watch.

So are you using the soil for more than 1 grow before recycling it again and do you use tea's during your grow?

I pretty much did 2 grows between recycles. After the first 2 grows, and 1st recycle I took a no till approach. I do have 4 (was 5) 5 gallon pots that have never been reycyled, and are from my first batch. I dumped 1 recently to see how the soil was and it looked pretty good. Nice and loose all the way down, dark, and smelled like soil not dirt. I do have worms living in them though, and I'm sure they did most the work lol. Those 4 will stay the same for now, and I'd like to start over on more no till set ups. Plust I want to do a side by side of new and old.

I use lots of stuff during my grow. Botanical teas, and sprays. Compost teas, casting tea, neem & karanja tea and sprays (from the cake, not oils). Fermented plant extracts, rotten wood (great fungi resource), lots of different items for ground cover, and I add worm castings about every 3-4 weeks. I also make enzyme drenches from malted barley, and sprouted corn. These are more commonly refereed to as SST or sprouted seed tea. I will use them say every month, and the corn is mainly for flowering, but I am stoned and can not remember what the corn has extra in it. Oops... lol.

 

[Sourdough]

Sounds awesome man!!!! I've been interested in a no till also. Hope to see you do one!!!!

 

[Joe383]

It is pretty cool. My great grandpa taught my mom, who taught me. When I was 5 my favorite snack was a whole bell pepper, any color. Those and baby carrots where like candy to me. I'd sneak out to the garden when my mom wasn't looking and just eat the baby carrots. I can't wait to catch my lil' guy doing the same.

Ya fresh fruit was my favorite as a kid. I did not like candy much. My mom once when I was about 10 or so gave me $50 in food stamps for my birthday because it was all we had and she cried when I came home with bags of fruit and no candy. I think she might have took it the wrong way and though I was starving for food or something looking back but a cantaloupe was like a snickers bar to me. One of the best parts of X mas was getting oranges and a coconut lol.