came home with some chicken manure, steer manure, peat moss with coir, vermiculite, mushroom compost, sphagnum peat moss, age old grow dry-fruit 2-10-20 derived from meat and bone, composted poultry manure, blood meal, bone meal, potassium sulfate and humic acid. how would you use these ingredients?

take that peat moss and coir. take an amount of mushroom compost equal to a third that of the peat. Mix that in. Forget the spaughm. Mix in an amount of steer and chicken sperately equal to an eigth of the total mix now. Now add 1 cup of dry age old to a cubic foot (7gallons) of your soil mix. Then mix in a bunch of perlite. A lot of it. Then add some more chicken manure for fun. Not a lot but some handfuls cuz yu may need more N and I am guessing that has some. Wet it and let it soak fior a few weeks.


no money, but some rep will be nice.

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what does letting it soak do?

should i keep a lid on my compost mix when soaking?

lol, you need to let it "cook". It gives the bacteria and the fungi to start breaking down the soil. In organics we feed the soil, the soil feeds the plants. To do this the soil needs to build up a soil food web so the plant can call on what it needs. So we let ic cook to give the bacteria moslty chances to get working and estblished. Otherwise it will mostly just sit there. The plant.

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well i need to keep it inside. i dont want to keep it outside because of possible bugs taking over. should i keep a lid on it?

whoa pardner! This aint compost. THis is soil and this is a standard method in all gardening to ready the soil. Compost is something else/ Keep it covered but with the lid crackerd. Once a week mix it all up. You should read subcool and his thread "super soil"/

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i mixed the the ingredients with the ratios you recommended. i will nw call it soil, im going to keep it in my garage. covered and slighty moist...correct? do you have a direct link to super soil?

it should be stickied in the organic section subforum subcools old school organics

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Do you have any experience with General Hydroponics Sub Culture? And besides that specific product, what is your opinion on beneficial bacteria additives in general?