Organilush
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Last year I used some "Roots" brand original potting soil in 20 gallon fabric pots...(Perlite, Coco Fiber, Peat Moss, Composted Forest Material, Pumice, Worm Castings, Bat Guano, Soybean Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Fish Bone Meal, Kelp Meal, and Greensand )
Through out the grow I addded Dr Earth 5-5-2 in tea and/or top dress once every 7 to 10 days (Feather Meal, Fish Bone Meal, Kelp Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Potassium Sulfate, Seaweed Extract, mycorrhizae/probiotics).
Right before and into the middle of flowering I added Dr Earth 3-9-4 as top dress and in tea once every 7 to 10 days....(Fish Bone Meal, Feather Meal, Potassium Sulfate, Alfalfa Meal, Kelp Meal, Seaweed Extract, micronized humic acids).
The soil also recieved EWC tea with mollases about once a week, occasionally top dresed with EWC.
It was my very first grow and I was pretty happy with how my herb turned out so I intend on following a similar method of growing this next time around and plan on using more of the same soil (roots original) and fertilizer....using last years soil mixed up with some fresh material.
The soil from last year is still in the 20 gallon fabric pots outside (nor-cal, zone 9b, partial sun/shade). I only pulled the stalk and main portion of the root ball out, but the smaller/finer roots remained in the soil.
I'm assuming this soil is still "rich" and will work again this year mixed with a little fresh soil along with some amendments/ferts added?
Here's what I plan on doing...I'm curious if this sounds reasonable to you fellow organic/live soil growers...?...
I will be growing two more plants this year, so I will be needing 40 gallons of more soil. I plan on buying roughly 40 gallons worth of the Roots original soil and blending/mixing it up with the 80 gallons of last years soil along with some of the same Dr. earth's dry fertlizer and some other amendments like guanos, plant meals, insect frass, some nettles (my backyard is chock full of em' at the moment), perhaps some myco & probiotic stuff (though there is already some of that in the Dr. earth.
I'm also assuming I should have all of this mixed up and allow the soil to sit for some time before plants are placed into it?...How long ahead of time before planting should this be done, or is it not too big of a deal with something like what I'm planning on doing?...And I'm assuming giving the soil some compost/mollases tea a few times while it sits before planting isn't a bad idea?
Does this sound like a reasonable way to re-cycle last year's soil and keep it going?
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Through out the grow I addded Dr Earth 5-5-2 in tea and/or top dress once every 7 to 10 days (Feather Meal, Fish Bone Meal, Kelp Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Potassium Sulfate, Seaweed Extract, mycorrhizae/probiotics).
Right before and into the middle of flowering I added Dr Earth 3-9-4 as top dress and in tea once every 7 to 10 days....(Fish Bone Meal, Feather Meal, Potassium Sulfate, Alfalfa Meal, Kelp Meal, Seaweed Extract, micronized humic acids).
The soil also recieved EWC tea with mollases about once a week, occasionally top dresed with EWC.
It was my very first grow and I was pretty happy with how my herb turned out so I intend on following a similar method of growing this next time around and plan on using more of the same soil (roots original) and fertilizer....using last years soil mixed up with some fresh material.
The soil from last year is still in the 20 gallon fabric pots outside (nor-cal, zone 9b, partial sun/shade). I only pulled the stalk and main portion of the root ball out, but the smaller/finer roots remained in the soil.
I'm assuming this soil is still "rich" and will work again this year mixed with a little fresh soil along with some amendments/ferts added?
Here's what I plan on doing...I'm curious if this sounds reasonable to you fellow organic/live soil growers...?...
I will be growing two more plants this year, so I will be needing 40 gallons of more soil. I plan on buying roughly 40 gallons worth of the Roots original soil and blending/mixing it up with the 80 gallons of last years soil along with some of the same Dr. earth's dry fertlizer and some other amendments like guanos, plant meals, insect frass, some nettles (my backyard is chock full of em' at the moment), perhaps some myco & probiotic stuff (though there is already some of that in the Dr. earth.
I'm also assuming I should have all of this mixed up and allow the soil to sit for some time before plants are placed into it?...How long ahead of time before planting should this be done, or is it not too big of a deal with something like what I'm planning on doing?...And I'm assuming giving the soil some compost/mollases tea a few times while it sits before planting isn't a bad idea?
Does this sound like a reasonable way to re-cycle last year's soil and keep it going?
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