bizarrojohnson
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So, i've been doing organic grows for a little over a year now. I've been mixing soil with blood meal, kelp, guanos, gypsum, rock phosphate, lime, bio-char, folic acid, alfalfa meal, crab meal, rice hulls, azomite, and a lot of earth worm castings and black chicken. I water with ewc tea and Sprouted seed tea from malted barley. The upside is i've had more consistent grows and better quality. My plants stay green the whole cycle and they smell, and taste better. But my yields have dropped by like half. Now i've seen organic grows where people get pretty good yields so i figured i'm still doing something wrong. So i decided to start mulching, bc that's something i haven't been doing, and i've been reading that it's very important to do for organic grows bc it helps keep the soil moist so those microbes and fungi can thrive. When i re-potted my plants i didn't account for 3-4 inches of mulch and left like an inch to work with.
I've piled an inch of grass clippings onto the dirt and gave it a really good watering. They already look a little better and the soil is staying nice and moist but i can tell that i need more and the grass on top dry out really quickly. Since i really don't want to uproot my plants again ( I just fought off a spider mite infected and on top of that my ac broke for like 2 weeks so there wearing from heat stress. Was 95 in my house so the grow room had to be over 100. There coming back nicely now tho.) I was wondering if putting a layer of vermiculite between the soil and the grass clippings would make up for it until i move them from their 2 gallon pots to their final 5 gallon pots?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I've piled an inch of grass clippings onto the dirt and gave it a really good watering. They already look a little better and the soil is staying nice and moist but i can tell that i need more and the grass on top dry out really quickly. Since i really don't want to uproot my plants again ( I just fought off a spider mite infected and on top of that my ac broke for like 2 weeks so there wearing from heat stress. Was 95 in my house so the grow room had to be over 100. There coming back nicely now tho.) I was wondering if putting a layer of vermiculite between the soil and the grass clippings would make up for it until i move them from their 2 gallon pots to their final 5 gallon pots?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
