making soil while quarantined

[aridbud]

Ok im short any perlite or vermiculite but my old soil had quite a lot. I do have some pea gravel, very small river gravel with sand in it. Not sure if i can use it or no. I will bake some ewc tonight snd some old soil tomorrow. With this and the azomite, some powdered ag lime and peat, adding some blood and bone meal i will be ok i think.

Yes, solid!

 

[art.spliff]

5 milliliters = 1 teaspoon
15 ml = 1 tablespoon
30 ml = 1 fluid ounce (29.6)

240 ml = 1 cup (237)
60 ml = 1/4 cup or 4 tablespoons

1 cubic foot = 120 cups or 28.4 liters or 7.5 gallons
1 cubic yard = 766.6 liters or 27 cubic feet

12 gallons (1.6 cu ft)

Base:
0.5 cu ft compost (3.75 gallons)
0.5 cu ft perlite
0.25 cu ft coco coir (1.88 gallons)
0.25 cu ft peat moss

3 lb worm castings
3 lb chicken manure
0.5 lb hi phosphorus bat guano
0.5 lb hi nitrogen bat guano
0.5 lb blood meal
0.4 cups gypsum (95 ml or 0.25 cup + 2 tbsp + 1 tsp)
0.05 cup sweet lime (dolomite) (12 ml or 2.4 tsp)
0.5 lbs steamed bone meal
0.3 cups oyster shell (71 ml or 0.25 cup + 2.25 tsp)
0.4 cups feather meal
0.4 cups crustacean meal
0.05 cup Epsom salts (12 ml or 2.4 tsp)
0.05 cup azomite (trace elements) (12 ml or 2.4 tsp)
0.3 lbs rock phosphate
0.2 tablespoons powdered humic acid
0.4 cups kelp meal.
0.2 tablespoons mycorrhizae (heaping 0.5 tsp)
0.3 cups alfalfa meal
0.6 cups organic rice

 

[art.spliff]

Mix well and test ph (tap water, soil + water solution). What is a good soil or runoff water pH to look for?

 

[art.spliff]

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[art.spliff]

Water shows a pH of 8.8-8.9 and no blip on EC meaning less than 0.4. Soaking a jar of this mix overnight the strained water reads pH 6.8 and EC 2.4. Sound ok?

 

[Dandelo]

good info, although ill admit a bit overwhelming, still good