flytier
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Hey, everyone! Greetings to all my friends and passersby. I just started another 5-pack of seeds, hoping I'll see it to the end before it gets smoked. Patience seems not to be my strong point.
This time I brought my camera along and got all the ingredients and steps of setting up my semi-organic (?) mix. I haven't done any side-by-side comparisons, but I'm pretty sure the main ingredient is my fish compost made from dead salmon at the hatchery where I work. I've done grows before I started using, and in between, compost grows, and there is a big difference for the better when I use it.
So, here we go. Here's the salmon compost which has some good microbial activity on the go already. This is what I inoculate the rest of the mix with, thus starting with a dilute microbial system which will develop over time.
To dilute it, I just got some bags of soil at Walmart. It has good texture and the plants certainly crow well in it, and it's cheap.
This is the mix so you can see what the fresh compost looks like in comparison to retail mixes. The compost, in the middle is much blacker and richer in texture, and not sterilized, so the seeds hit the ground running. In my hand is some dolomite, at about the amount I use for it, blood meal, bone meal and potash.
And speaking of the nutrients, here's the dolomite that I picked up at Co-Opfor something like $4 or so
The NPK nutes are taken care of with blood meal, bone meal and potash respectively, amounts as shown above. Also bought at the Co-Op, but it costs a little more, but mostly <$10.
I stick in a couple pinches of Epsom salts to take care of magnesium and sulphur. Shown here with some dolomite in a manageable container
I keep those things in my portable carrying/seating unit
So the seeds were put into 5" starter pots, and although people say not to do it with an auto, I've done it with them in the past with no ill effects. Once again, no side-by-side comparisons, sorry
And that was the last pic I got before the batteries crapped out. But I simply planted the seeds directly from the pack to the soil and watered. This time I did it cold: the soil was outdoors and in the porch, the seeds were straight from the fridge and the water was cold from the tap. They are just warming up as I type. Hope you like how things go, and thanks for tuning in.
This time I brought my camera along and got all the ingredients and steps of setting up my semi-organic (?) mix. I haven't done any side-by-side comparisons, but I'm pretty sure the main ingredient is my fish compost made from dead salmon at the hatchery where I work. I've done grows before I started using, and in between, compost grows, and there is a big difference for the better when I use it.
So, here we go. Here's the salmon compost which has some good microbial activity on the go already. This is what I inoculate the rest of the mix with, thus starting with a dilute microbial system which will develop over time.
To dilute it, I just got some bags of soil at Walmart. It has good texture and the plants certainly crow well in it, and it's cheap.
This is the mix so you can see what the fresh compost looks like in comparison to retail mixes. The compost, in the middle is much blacker and richer in texture, and not sterilized, so the seeds hit the ground running. In my hand is some dolomite, at about the amount I use for it, blood meal, bone meal and potash.
And speaking of the nutrients, here's the dolomite that I picked up at Co-Opfor something like $4 or so
The NPK nutes are taken care of with blood meal, bone meal and potash respectively, amounts as shown above. Also bought at the Co-Op, but it costs a little more, but mostly <$10.
I stick in a couple pinches of Epsom salts to take care of magnesium and sulphur. Shown here with some dolomite in a manageable container
I keep those things in my portable carrying/seating unit
So the seeds were put into 5" starter pots, and although people say not to do it with an auto, I've done it with them in the past with no ill effects. Once again, no side-by-side comparisons, sorry
And that was the last pic I got before the batteries crapped out. But I simply planted the seeds directly from the pack to the soil and watered. This time I did it cold: the soil was outdoors and in the porch, the seeds were straight from the fridge and the water was cold from the tap. They are just warming up as I type. Hope you like how things go, and thanks for tuning in.
