Diy organic medium

plantsinpants

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• Mar 4, 2016

• #1

2 parts composted pine bark
1 part peat
Add 1cup of lime to each pot (3 gal pots,, adjust to your size pot/hole )
Add your favorite fertiliser

 

plantsinpants

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• Mar 5, 2016

• #2

Its very porous and drains well . I havent had to add any vermiculite or any moisture enhancing stuff

 

hillbill

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• Mar 7, 2016

• #3

How is the bark composted? Or do you buy it?

 

greasemonkeymann

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• Mar 7, 2016

• #4

plantsinpants said:

2 parts composted pine bark
1 part peat
Add 1cup of lime to each pot (3 gal pots,, adjust to your size pot/hole )
Add your favorite fertiliser

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thats quite a lot of d-lime

 

plantsinpants

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• Mar 7, 2016

• #5

hillbill said:

How is the bark composted? Or do you buy it?

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I buy the composted bark and the peat at a landscape depot / pit
Its like 40$ per half ton truck load

 

plantsinpants

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• Mar 7, 2016

• #6

greasemonkeymann said:

thats quite a lot of d-lime

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Not really .... You can be very liberal with dlime.. Unless you apply a really huge ammount like double didgit percentages

 

greasemonkeymann

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• Mar 7, 2016

• #7

plantsinpants said:

Not really .... You can be very liberal with dlime.. Unless you apply a really huge ammount like double didgit percentages

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if you are doing alright at that rate then that's cool man.
But a cup per 3 gallons I think would cause problems in my mix.
but we are using totally different stuff though
that's cool it isn't causing any calcium or phosphorus uptake
but I imagine pine bark and peat is gonna be REAL low in ph, so that d-lime is countering it

 

plantsinpants

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• Mar 7, 2016

• #8

Pretty much yeah.. Plus we have pretty acidic earth in my parts.. its really hard to overdo lime but its worth noting that i put the medium in the ground so leaching affects will eventualy make the mix acidic compared to pots