Living soil ongoing diary

[FX]

Okay, so I have applied top dressing of a mixture of the dry amends I have from gho yesterday and watered in another dose of mosquito bits as I have a few fungus gnats in there.
When I next get some cash, I'm going to get a load of worm castings and do another top dress with them and more dry amends as I will be flipping them soon so I can get things moving along...

[GMO]

you can also water in chitinase and nematodes.... i found these 2 really helped knock back my gnats from hundreds to just 1 or 2 in a matter of about a week

[FX]

Okay, budding has started on all four plants so they have had a top dress of green hand organics amends mixed with worm castings and a water in with kelp, humic acid and seabird guano with fulvic

[FX]

I treated the soil of all the pots with nematoads as I still have a few fungus gnats stubbornly hanging on. I used nemasys fruit & veg

[FX]

I sprayed the soil with some of gho's microbiome at lights off this morning.
https://www.greenhandorganic.com/buy-now/microbiome
I wanted to ensure there was a good balance of microbes in the soil and I've had good results with this stuff in previous grows, biobizz have recently launched a microbe product, I nearly choked when I saw the price lol, some serious grower tax there.... Gho's is seven quid for 10g and a little goes a long way so I think I'll stick with that....

[FX]

Okay, all four pots had nematoads and Hypoaspis miles added to them, two pots are now empty and covered up, I will be adding a top dress of fresh worm castings, hemp seed powder and some other bits and pieces from my stash of green hand organics dry amends in the next couple of weeks, I will then sow a cover crop, I have white clover, alfalfa and borage to try in there, once this has grown a but, I'll do a chop and drop and the pots should be ready for the next canna plants to go in...

[MrNice]

how long it take FX to get the soil ready 4 weeks ?

[Budgie]

Interesting thread @FX .

Have you worked out where the thrips and fungus gnats came from. Gnats aren't a big issue but thrips are more damaging so I hope the amendments have sorted that for you. My money is on the biobiz all-mix, what do you think? Maybe a few weeks in the great sunny outdoors wrapped in black bags to solarize the soil may be something to consider?

Good job so far and interested in how they do grow out.

[FX]

The bugs got added during the move, plant health wasn't the best so they were ripe for an infestation lol, I used biobizz all mix all the time before moving to living earth and tbh I never had any issues with hitchhikers lol

[Afton]

@FX That soil should be good to go soon!
Can't wait for the grow.