soil mix from Bobrown

bobrown14;2628972 said:

guambomb80;2628708 said:

I'm about to set up my Blumat in the next couple days.
What is no till? Still new to the organic terms of growing.
Thanks

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No-til is using the same soil over and over again without changing the tilth - meaning NOT tilling the soil. In container gardening tilling would be the same as dumping the soil out and either remixing or starting over again with new. The way we do no-til is start out with an exceptionally GREAT soil mix use it round after round with minimal amendments and not disturbing the soil food web.

The goal is to grow micro-organisms in the soil that deliver the nutrients in the soil to the plants roots in a symbiotic relationship. Tilling kills those micro-organisms.

Think about a forest and how all those huge trees grow and all the other plants and animals live together in a symbiotic relationship. We can do that same exact thing on a micro scale in a container with cannabis and/or other plants. What happens is each round of plants that are gown in no-til actually improve in quality and yield over time. It's doable and provable but there's a specific way to do it.

Soil mix:
1/3 CSPM - Canadian sphagnum peat moss
1/3 Aeration - perlite
1/3 hummus - EWC/vermicompost/composted organic soils (I use vermicompost).

Soil amendments - generally @ 1 cup per cu/ft
Rock dust - granite dust
Crustacean meal/lobster meal/crab meal
Liming agent - AG lime is cheap and will work I use Crab shell meal, dolomite lime and gypsum
Kelp meal
Alfalfa meal
Neem and Karaja meal
what else.. oh yeah worm castings never too much of that ...
whenever I feel there's something missing - I brew up a some kelp meal tea

Do this ^^^ your indoor gardening (and outdoors too) will become a REAL FUN activity! Lots of living organic soil and lots of living organic plants!

HTH

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