Anyone using Mountain Organic‘s soil recipe #3?

[sethimus]

Looking for people who are successfully using the following recipe:

50% Sphagnum Peat Moss
40% Humus
10% Biochar
8 cups per cuF Rock Dust
(Handful of worms per pot/bed)

from: https://mountainorganics.net/p/soil

thinking of going into living soil and was intrigued by the simplicity of this recipe and want to know if there are any downsides to it? according to his IG he mixes it and immediately starts planting his plants into it and only foliars his tonics. is that really it? any idea how i could substitute the tonics with something available in europe?

 

[thailer]

i think the reason that recipe works so good for MOFO is that he makes his own compost. most bagged compost is garbage and his recipe has no fertilizers so the quality of the compost is important. i think if it does work, it is due to homemade compost and castings.

theres no lime and 50% peat so that is another reason i didn't choose his recipe. I do love living soil for it's simplicity and have chosen the basic coot mix recipe of 1/2 cup each kelp, crab, neem meal and 1 cup each CaCO3 lime, gypsum and rock dust.

is crab available to you where you're at? that seems to be the biggest thing people can't find in certain areas of the world. is that part of the reason you chose this?

you can make his tonics. its cold pressed in glycerin i think, if i remember right. he was at another forum when he announced his new business and there was discussion of making your own there and i think he talked a little about it. it would be simple but just take some time to make it.

i love living soil growing but i don't know of anyone actually using his recipe. curious too how well it works.

 

[tzorge]

It's a very strange world to start off dissing bottles only to start selling them.

 

[rasputin]

It's a very strange world to start off dissing bottles only to start selling them.

Because their only real problem was WHO was selling the bottles. They wanted in on the action. Bunch of charlatans.

 

[CannaRed]

That's kinda why his recipe is so simple. So you'll buy his special tonics to compensate

 

[tzorge]

 

[oinkimacow]

Looking for people who are successfully using the following recipe:

50% Sphagnum Peat Moss
40% Humus
10% Biochar
8 cups per cuF Rock Dust
(Handful of worms per pot/bed)

from: https://mountainorganics.net/p/soil

thinking of going into living soil and was intrigued by the simplicity of this recipe and want to know if there are any downsides to it? according to his IG he mixes it and immediately starts planting his plants into it and only foliars his tonics. is that really it? any idea how i could substitute the tonics with something available in europe?

Have you looked at build a soils DIY kit? the package includes everything you need to make a cubic yard of soil (lava rock, minerals, amendments, peat moss etc.). they have a few different options as to ingredients. the one i would personally go with is the oly mountain with grow stones. it comes out to like 675$ after shipping. base price is 425, shipping is like 170.

 

[h.h.]

Why?

 

[baconman1945]

It's a very strange world to start off dissing bottles only to start selling them.

Yep, totally agree.

MoFo lost friends (definitely elsewhere, possibly here?) when he made the decision to water-down amendments and start selling them in bottles. lol shouldn't be surprising that he needs the foliars to fertilize.

 

[tzorge]

Id save the cash for something better, start a compost pile, and a leaf bin, get some perlite or other aeration.
You done, 80%.

 

[tzorge]

And start cataloguing what organic matter your neighbor throws.