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Re: Re-amendment Recipes for Organic Soil/Living Soil

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Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:25 am
i can see this going a bit wild bro. the enzymes in MBP will start working on the chitin in the frass fast as heck imo. add in the high leaves of available sugars and youll be mopping up bio films for weeks
Too fast of a process and would unbalance the enzymes and phytohormones vs microbes etc.... As I have added MBP with frass before as a top dress and seemed to work well.

This is why it's always good putting the feelers out there and getting ideas 1st :lol:

.....or try it on a plant you don't like :idn:
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Re: Re-amendment Recipes for Organic Soil/Living Soil

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First set of pots re-amended/tilled with the following:
¼ cup each neem, kelp, crab meals, langbeinite
½ cup gypsum
1 L compost
1 L rice hulls
1 cup MBP (malted barley powder)

Then top dressed, after transplant, the following castings mix for veg.
1-1.5L castings
1 Tsp cover crop mix
30 red wigglers (need to go buy)
Timothy grass for mulch/moisture lock (need to go buy)

At flower, I plan on removing the timothy grass, then top dressing the following.
1 L compost
¼ cup each neem, kelp, crab meals, langbeinite, gypsum
Timothy grass for mulch/moisture lock (need to go buy)

I wanted to document my actual recipe used. Notably, removed silica (forgot) and reduced amount of MBP.
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So about 20 days ago, I added 30 red wigglers to each pot when I transplanted these two phenotypes of Smashed Cake (#3,#4). Besides an initial compost tea treatment, I’ve misted water every other day. Added some alfalfa meal, plants look like crap but the soil seems to be in good shape.

Not necessarily surprised at the progress of pheno #3 (left), I initially described this plant as slow and not very regenerative. Pheno #4 I labeled as the 2nd best plant, very regenerative…hopefully, I see more of a reaction in flower.

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Nice one. These look interesting.

Thanks for sharing :rock:

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Many thanks to all for sharing info on re-amendments; my intent is to stop documenting within this topic – to follow the progress of the two pots I have reworked so far, refer to grow diary “Smashed Cake”. With about a week prior to flower, I have top dressed Smashed Cake phenos #3 and #4 with a few leaves and one liter of compost each. They’ve been in veg for 27 days today; at the advice of another forum member, I have topped pheno #3 and will veg another two-ish weeks.

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I've noticed the only pots that don't seem to be struggling, are the two pots I added worms to. Those two pots are nearing the end of a 70 day run of smashed cake (#3&#4).

The other pots seem to show deficiency or lockout from, probably, too many nutrients or nutrient antagonists. Worms were not used and it shows. Suspiciously too, I shifted to compost, no worm castings, as a top dress for those pots entering flower.

Besides leaving out Silica, I also forgot glacial rock dust (GRD) but am watering it in. The GRD measurement would have been double the others (i.e. kelp, neem, crab).

I think my next move is to add worms and GRD. Cover crop is a need as well.

I'm also going to start foliar of aloe and silica powder, for plants in veg or early flower.

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