Fertilizers or just Amend The Soil?

cannakis

cannakis

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Should i stick with just using Blue Mountain Organics and the same soil over and over, or should i Start making my own teas (which I Am still planning on doing, it is just going to take some time), OR Should i truly Amend the Soil and add Lime, Rocks, Manure, Bone Meal, Ashes, and Oatmeal to make a Soil Web? I Am in this moment of Flux where i must make a decision Soon about what I Am going to spend my money on, BMO, Tea Ingredients, or Soil Ingredients?
 
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cannakis

cannakis

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oh and i would add earthworm castings with the oats for the mychs. and some kelp meal or seaweed i can find around me. I Am trying to utilize all THE LORD has given me, and i have an endless supply of horse manure, oyster shells, and other things by the sea like brackish mud...? fish scraps for fish emulsion, which i am going to make.

but maybe i should just use BMO or teas and maybe add Nectar of the gods calcium supp and maybe their carbo, he says its way better than molasses that molasses has very complex structure... which i dont know, please help me out guys!?
 
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Staxxx

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Take the best of both worlds - buy the BMO SPT and use it in conjunction with a well amended soil mix. Remember, all the amendments in the world don't mean shit, if you don't provide the mix with a VIABLE/QUALITY compost and/or EWC - the workhorse of your mix that makes all the "magic" happen. Spend most of your energy and resources there and the rest is smooth sailing.
 
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215roller

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I always amend my own soil. Bone meal, blood meal, perlite, lime, egg shells, peat moss, worm castings, Indonesian and Jamaican bat guano all get mixed with a commercial organic potting soil I get from Home Depot. I don't over do the guano because I use them for my teas. I mix bat shit with molasses, cal mag, super thrive and earthworm castings. Indonesia for veg, Jamaican for flower. Ladies have loved it.
 
Pattahabi

Pattahabi

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215roller said:
I always amend my own soil. Bone meal, blood meal, perlite, lime, egg shells, peat moss, worm castings, Indonesian and Jamaican bat guano all get mixed with a commercial organic potting soil I get from Home Depot. I don't over do the guano because I use them for my teas. I mix bat shit with molasses, cal mag, super thrive and earthworm castings. Indonesia for veg, Jamaican for flower. Ladies have loved it.
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Make sure that potting soil from home depot doesn't have Biosolids on the ingredient list. Superthrive is absolutely not organic.

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215roller

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Pattahabi said:
Make sure that potting soil from home depot doesn't have Biosolids on the ingredient list. Superthrive is absolutely not organic.

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Superthrive is not organic persay..but it's okay for organic growing based on numerous things I've read..or would you disagree? I'll put some in my tea every so often. My primary means for buying it was reduce stress during transplant. There's nothing really in that soil but perlite, peat and dolomite. I use it alone as a starter soil for seedlings and have never had an issue in the 2 years I've been growing. What do you use?
 
Pattahabi

Pattahabi

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215roller said:
Superthrive is not organic persay..but it's okay for organic growing based on numerous things I've read..or would you disagree? I'll put some in my tea every so often. My primary means for buying it was reduce stress during transplant. There's nothing really in that soil but perlite, peat and dolomite. I use it alone as a starter soil for seedlings and have never had an issue in the 2 years I've been growing. What do you use?
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I would not consider non-organic ingredients ok for growing organics. ;)

Use a little puree'd aloe vera to replace your superthrive. 2oz of pureed aloe per gallon of water.

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