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Redbud was definitely a nice surprise. All of there amendments (they tell me) are OMRI listed and i was able to get my entire list from them. They make their own living soil as well, but i wanted to be able to make it myself. They sell red wigglers and cover crop seed too! Good luck with moving...

BTW, love your screen name and sig! I've been a Doctor Who fan since i was a child in the 70's/80's

Thank you! I've been checking out build a soil as well as recipes here for just that purpose. I've finally settled on the recipe below. I'm having my water tested for calcium and mag and want to go to tap water and drop cal mag (and ph'ing) from my sop. I am a little nervous to do so on both...

We have been making fresh soil for each crop and it was less heavily amended so we fed age old bloom/grow as well. We are now switching over to a more heavily amended living soil. I will compost the soil from this transitional crop and mix fresh with the next crop so the entire crop will be the...

Thanks @Dreaming1 ! Unfortunately i need the 50 pound bag and the only places i've found that will ship to me charge twice msrp. I was actually in grow warehouse this weekend! They can get the 50 pound bags, but they have to order it to there colorado store and then pallet ship store to store...

Here's a system i might be able to make if i can find the time. You have to remove the compost manually by raking from below, so i'm not sure if that will create any issues.

Wow! just looked those up and it looks perfect, but they get expensive quickly. It looks like the only two options in my price range would be diy or a warm wigwam for $600. I knew this volume would be a challenge, but it looks like it may be even harder than i anticipated. I may have to start...

Thanks @loco41 ! The reason for the volume is i start a new crop every 60-90 days and plant just over 100 plants in 5 gallon pots. so 520'ish gallons and my mix is approx 22% ewc which works out to 132 gallons. I don't want to be harvesting the entire bin so i upsized to 175. I will...

thisis the pump I use, but I have a feeling your pump handles abuse better than mine wood

Well. Mother Earth meal mix was a strike out. I can’t have it or most of the down to earth amendments shipped to my state! :( I did manage to find redbud soil in OKC so I’m going to pick up amendments from them this weekend. My plan is (with correction of some significant mistakes from my...

BTW @PadawanWarrior, I plan to use a strainer at first, but at some point I need to have a conversation with you about your no bag, no strain compost tea method you have posted about ;)

I do need to point out to the OP that the above recipe is not only untested, but it was put together by a complete living soil noob, so caveat emptor!

You guessed it! When i struck out on mother earth, my backup was DTE bio-live, but that isn't allowed here either. Redbud however has a great menu of amendments though, so finding them was awesome

Well. Mother Earth meal mix was a strike out. I can’t have it or most of the down to earth amendments shipped to my state! :( I did manage to find redbud soil in OKC so I’m going to pick up amendments from them this weekend. My plan is (with correction of some significant mistakes from my...

Alright, i decided to go the cheaper route and ordered the $45 test from us water systems. I think it will give me everything i need. I called the water company again today and was at least able to find out that our water supply only has chlorine, no chloramine, so at least i dont have to deal...

Thanks @chakup . I somehow missed the notification of your post. I appreciate the information I found an error in my prior calculation and it turns out I actually need to make 175 gallons every 90 days :( . I do however have 6 months to work up to that capacity because i have to use up my...

How often do you water with this espom and gypsum combination using the 1gram per 5 liter and 1 gram per 4 liter concentrations you mentioned? Is this just for deficiencies or can i water more frequently with this? Can you reasonably build a balanced soil that has enough calcium to forego...

I found this for $49.95 and it looks promising. It says chlorides, but i don't know if that means if it will distinguish chlorine from chloramine. It does specifically list calcium and magnesium https://www.uswatersystems.com/us-water-systems-professional-lab-water-test.html

Thank you. Also, I missed answering one of your questions. This will be in my garage so out of the elements and should be warm enough for worms year round

Well I wasn’t planning on making a mixed nutrient and compost tea, was mainly wondering if the guano would add beneficial microbes. Sounds like the compost and ewc will be all I need for my original question, but leave the guano if I want it to be both microbes and nutrients thanks for the...