I am a brand new grower. I have some AF's growing and have mixed a batch of soil for a small next run. I would like some thoughts on what I have mixed up for an anticipated planting in the next 2+ months.
Here is what I mixed up:
2 CF Sp. PM (Home Depot)
7 gallons
Happy Frog
4 gallons EWC
4 gallons Bu's Compost
1CF Rice Hulls
4.5 gallons Grow Stones
3 gallons Bio-Char (activated before I added to mix)
Mineral Mix:
3 cups Calcium Carbonate
2.5 cups Soft Rock Phosphate
1.5 cups gypsum
Rock Dusts:
2.5 cups Azomite
2.5 cups Basalt
1 cup Greensand
7 cups Glacial Rock Dust
Other:
2.5 Oyster Shell Flour
1.5 cups Neem Meal
1.5 cups Karanja Meal
3 cups Kelp Meal
3 cups Crab Meal
2 cups Fish Bone Meal
2 cups Bone Meal
1 cup Alfalfa Meal
Some of the items listed I picked up specifically for this mix, some I had left from my first planting. I wet it down very lightly a day after I mixed it up with some extra compost tea I had brewed for my small current planting.
It was heating up in the middle fairly well for a week or two. I watered it some more with a fungal dominant tea and the cooking stopped.
My questions are:
Is the listed mix too heavy/too light on any needed amendments? Is it normal for a cooking mix to just stop heating after just a couple of weeks?
My plan would be to put this mix at the bottom of my next grow pots, 5 and 7 gallon fabric pots. I will be planting various AF's, mostly indica or indica dominant hybrids. All indoor in 3x3 tent with 4 bulb t5 for seedling and part of veg adding LED for the remaining grow.
This is all new to me so any input is appreciated.
Here is what I mixed up:
2 CF Sp. PM (Home Depot)
7 gallons
Happy Frog4 gallons EWC
4 gallons Bu's Compost
1CF Rice Hulls
4.5 gallons Grow Stones
3 gallons Bio-Char (activated before I added to mix)
Mineral Mix:
3 cups Calcium Carbonate
2.5 cups Soft Rock Phosphate
1.5 cups gypsum
Rock Dusts:
2.5 cups Azomite
2.5 cups Basalt
1 cup Greensand
7 cups Glacial Rock Dust
Other:
2.5 Oyster Shell Flour
1.5 cups Neem Meal
1.5 cups Karanja Meal
3 cups Kelp Meal
3 cups Crab Meal
2 cups Fish Bone Meal
2 cups Bone Meal
1 cup Alfalfa Meal
Some of the items listed I picked up specifically for this mix, some I had left from my first planting. I wet it down very lightly a day after I mixed it up with some extra compost tea I had brewed for my small current planting.
It was heating up in the middle fairly well for a week or two. I watered it some more with a fungal dominant tea and the cooking stopped.
My questions are:
Is the listed mix too heavy/too light on any needed amendments? Is it normal for a cooking mix to just stop heating after just a couple of weeks?
My plan would be to put this mix at the bottom of my next grow pots, 5 and 7 gallon fabric pots. I will be planting various AF's, mostly indica or indica dominant hybrids. All indoor in 3x3 tent with 4 bulb t5 for seedling and part of veg adding LED for the remaining grow.
This is all new to me so any input is appreciated.
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