Good, cheap mix

570.Grow

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I was wondering if anyone had a budget friendly organic soil mix that wouldn’t sacrifice quality. I’ve been reading for a while now, this is going to be my first real organic grow but the mix I came up with will cost too much right now and I’m too impatient to wait :?
 

570.Grow

Member
Preferably something I can cook and just water/boost life with teas. I’ll be growing autos the first few runs
 

Richard Drysift

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Well you certainly don't need to drop bank at say build a soil but most of the stuff bagged at home stores is crap for growing weed all by itself. Look for a decent organic garden soil for growing vegetables like say Kellogs and then add like 1/3 worm castings and some perlite to lighten it up which will give you a good base to amend further. Don't use anything that contains miracle grow or time released pellets of "plant food."
Honestly it takes a few recycles before the soil reaches a supernatural status where you won't need to amend as much or maybe even at all. Best thing you can do now is start a worm bin and keep adding fresh castings to your mix. Learn about recycling & amending soil and aquire whatever you need in the meantime. It's a slow process but pays off in time eventually when you only will need to give water.
 

IIReignManII

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Real dirt my dude....get a shovel. I would find a fertile undisturbed area and dig up a good base, which hopefully has some worms and good natural microbes in it. Hit it with some perlite, castings, compost, bone meal, blood meal, and kelp
 

FresnoFarmer

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Blood fish and bone. Also some farm feed stores carry stuff you can use like rice bran, oyster shell flour, alfalfa meal, gypsum. Cheap too
 
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