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Hi, fellow Canucks!
Canadian Tire has Sunshine Mix #4 on clearance! at an ATL, $3 a bag! Marked down from waaaay more. It's absolutely soaking wet, though
after what I'm guessing is a disappointing season of sales for them, they seem to have media for sale at waaay less than I've seen elsewhere.
Was hoping to scoop an insane deal on ProMixHP but that seems to be the last holdout and isn't on sale yet
So, I bought all of the SS#4 my local has left. And am officially here for help. I grabbed 4 bags at about $3 each which just to put into perspective, the previous media and only media I've used to date is the KIS Mix at a whopping $30-35 a bag. For equal 7gal size!![Disappointed face :disappointed: 😞](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f61e.png)
Just wanted to start a thread to hear from anyone familiar with this stuff, and where to go with it!
I added 3 TBSP per gallon (so 3TBSP x7 for 7gal) Gaia 4-4-4 , along with soil inoculant, Yucca, insect frass, compost trio, castings. And sprayed down with Inocucor LAB microbes. Then placed into the sun to bake! Few days later and now I'm at the stage of pics attached.
I am hoping this is activating both the dry amendments and the soil itself but I have posted the question in a previous thread which got a ton of replies (super grateful btw!) and it sounds like I'd be wrong, because it takes 2-4 weeks.
Just looking for some first hand experience beginner tips for this stuff from the best forum I'm on.
ICMAG and this forum in particular have been not only patient and friendly but most importantly hasn't ridiculed me as an admitted total noobie !
Huge thanks again as always and I always go over any and all replies
Canadian Tire has Sunshine Mix #4 on clearance! at an ATL, $3 a bag! Marked down from waaaay more. It's absolutely soaking wet, though
after what I'm guessing is a disappointing season of sales for them, they seem to have media for sale at waaay less than I've seen elsewhere.
Was hoping to scoop an insane deal on ProMixHP but that seems to be the last holdout and isn't on sale yet
So, I bought all of the SS#4 my local has left. And am officially here for help. I grabbed 4 bags at about $3 each which just to put into perspective, the previous media and only media I've used to date is the KIS Mix at a whopping $30-35 a bag. For equal 7gal size!
![Disappointed face :disappointed: 😞](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f61e.png)
Just wanted to start a thread to hear from anyone familiar with this stuff, and where to go with it!
I added 3 TBSP per gallon (so 3TBSP x7 for 7gal) Gaia 4-4-4 , along with soil inoculant, Yucca, insect frass, compost trio, castings. And sprayed down with Inocucor LAB microbes. Then placed into the sun to bake! Few days later and now I'm at the stage of pics attached.
I am hoping this is activating both the dry amendments and the soil itself but I have posted the question in a previous thread which got a ton of replies (super grateful btw!) and it sounds like I'd be wrong, because it takes 2-4 weeks.
Just looking for some first hand experience beginner tips for this stuff from the best forum I'm on.
ICMAG and this forum in particular have been not only patient and friendly but most importantly hasn't ridiculed me as an admitted total noobie !
Huge thanks again as always and I always go over any and all replies
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