Making a first attempt for a TLO/supersoil mix using only ingrediants I could find at local big box retailers, regionally based hardware supercenters, and a one mom and pop grow show. Mail order wasn't an option for me so I had to choose from what was within a certain proximity for my good ol' fashioned grocery getter! Without any further ado:
A certain huge chain founded by a certain dead Arkansas man:
A certain midwestern chain where you'd be liable to "save big money at *endard's!"
A certain place where you may brew a beer and grow a garden:
So the list above just spells out the weights/volumes of the ingrediants in the amounts I purchased them in, NOT the mix ratio!
I would have loved to have found all the shit I saw in most of the TLO/supersoil mixes on the thread, but this is what I found so here's the mix:
So that's my base. Essentially, half of volume of my initial base soil ingrediants since I'm using a 45 gallon compost tumbler to mix everything and didn't want to pack it to the brim.
Additives:
Tumbled for what seemed like hours! (It was more like 10 mins but I was faded so...) Added a few gallons of water, mixed, and transfered to a 55 gallon rolling trash can. Estimated volume is prob just over 25 gallons. I'll mix the second batch soon so they can both get cooking! This is destinged for some gorilla hole bottoms too FYI.
So I hope that recipe works. I'll be reporting throughout the summer.
:Growing:
A certain huge chain founded by a certain dead Arkansas man:
- 2.2 f[SUP]3 [/SUP]spagnum moss
- 3 lbs. MG organic blood meal
- 3 lbs. MG organis bone meal
- 80 lbs. organic humus & manure
A certain midwestern chain where you'd be liable to "save big money at *endard's!"
- 12 lbs. Chicky Doo Doo organic chicken shit
- .75 f[SUP]3[/SUP] mushroom compost
- 50 lbs. crushed lime
- 8 lbs. EWC
A certain place where you may brew a beer and grow a garden:
- 2 lbs. Pervuian seabird guano
- 2 lbs. Idonesian bat guano
- 2 lbs. Jamacan bat guano
- 2 f[SUP]3 [/SUP]coco coir
- 1 F[SUP]3 [/SUP]EWC
- 1 kg powdered soil amendment (feather meal, beet sugar, molasses,monoamomium phosphate, potassium nitate, chicken shit, soybean meal, coco shell meal, urea, dicalcium phosphate, magnesium oxide) Sigh... fuck that was a long list
So the list above just spells out the weights/volumes of the ingrediants in the amounts I purchased them in, NOT the mix ratio!
I would have loved to have found all the shit I saw in most of the TLO/supersoil mixes on the thread, but this is what I found so here's the mix:
- 1.1 cf spagnum moss
- 1 cf coco coir
- .625 cf EWC
- .378 cf mushroom compost
- .2 cf midwestern top soil
So that's my base. Essentially, half of volume of my initial base soil ingrediants since I'm using a 45 gallon compost tumbler to mix everything and didn't want to pack it to the brim.
Additives:
- 3 cups lime
- 1 cup blood meal
- 1 cup bone meal
- 1 cup of each guano
- 2 cups chicken shit
- 2 cups soil amendment
Tumbled for what seemed like hours! (It was more like 10 mins but I was faded so...) Added a few gallons of water, mixed, and transfered to a 55 gallon rolling trash can. Estimated volume is prob just over 25 gallons. I'll mix the second batch soon so they can both get cooking! This is destinged for some gorilla hole bottoms too FYI.
So I hope that recipe works. I'll be reporting throughout the summer.
:Growing:
