Cooks Organic Soil - Slightly Altered - Need Feedback

HazePhase

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Hello,
This is my second batch of soil and i have a bit less of a few items but some other items to add and I was wondering if I could get away with the following:

20 gallons perlite
20 gallons peat moss
10 gallons EWC
10 gallons Mushroom Compost

4 cups of each:
- neem
- kelp, crab and alfalfa meal

6 cups of Dolomite Lime
21 cups Rock Dust Mix:
(Rock Blend Basalt, Carbonatite, Oyster, Soft Rock & Woolastonite)

*** I should have 32 cups of rock dust but only have 21 cups... however Cooks doesn't call for dolomite lime due to oyster shell which i have in my Rock dust ... also i am adding in 6 cups of dolomite lime so I was wondering if this blend would be okay?

Thx Everyone
 
Just add more oyster shell flour and cut back on the dolomite lime.... it's not the best source of Ca .... its got a lot of Mg in it. Generally we want a Ca to Mg ratio of 7:1 or maybe a little more ... certainly not 2:1 like dolomite lime has.

Gypsum is a better alternative than Dolomite for the mentioned reason, and it adds in some Sulfur which is important.

Do you mean "Coots" and not "Cooks" ??


Here's Coots mix:


1 part. Peat Moss - Canadian Spagnum Peat Moss
1 part. Aeration (pear-lite/rice hulls whatever is available at the local nursery)
1 part. Compost (Coast of Maine or home made or Malibu BU Blend)

Mixed with:
Acadian Kelp Meal @ 1/2 Cup per cubic foot
Neem Cake and Karanja Cake 50/50 Mix @ 1/2 cup per cubic foot
Crustacean Meal @ 1/2 Cup per cubic foot
Gypsum Dust @ 1 Cup Per Cubic Foot
Brix Blend Basalt @ 1 Cup Per Cubic Foot
Glacial Rock Dust @ 1 Cup Per Cubic Foot
Oyster Flour @ 1 Cup Per Cubic Foot
Pre-Charged Bio Char (Black Owl has some pre-charged) best to make your own compost tea and add a few cups of bio char... that will pre-charge it.)
 
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