Hi everyone! So I was smoking and came up with this idea to add the two. One bag of roots is about 1.5 cu ft right? The BYOS mix makes 3 cu ft. Please correct me because i have no idea...it just sounded like a good and easy plan. Roots already has good stuff in it. Just throw more good stuff and be good to go lol...right? 3 bags roots to byos mix and u get super soil?
1 bag of roots organic + Eureka Springs B.Y.O.S. mix = TLO/ Super soil??
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My apologies for not having any links. ..crappy phone here's the recipe from the website. Thinking of buying options for tomorrow.
Eureka Springs Organics B.Y.O.S. (Build Your Own Soil) Flower Mix helps to take all of the guess work out of making a custom soil. This complete flowering nutrient mix will provide every essential nutrient necessary to grow high quality organic plants. No more wondering what is missing in your soil mix, and no more buying store bought soil only to reamend it once you get it home. With our B.Y.O.S. Flower Mix you can grow lush dense plants by just adding water. For increased yields we advise you to* feed your plants compost tea once per week.
If that doesn't work I'm going with this. ....
Mixing directions per cubic foot of soil:
Mix 6 cups of B.Y.O.S. Flower mix with the following
3- Gallons Peat Moss
2- Gallons aeration material (rice hulls, perlite, etc.)
2- Gallons Composted material (worm castings, compost, etc.)
Let sit for 1-2 weeks. If not letting soil “cook” only plant
full size plants in mix as smaller plants may get burned.
Ingredients: Oyster shell flour, gypsum, azomite, Basalt Rock Dust, Bentonite, Crab Shells, Fish Meal,
Bat Guano, Alfalfa Meal, Neem cake, Fish Bone Meal, Kelp Meal, Humates, Diatomaceous Earth
Eureka Springs Organics B.Y.O.S. (Build Your Own Soil) Flower Mix helps to take all of the guess work out of making a custom soil. This complete flowering nutrient mix will provide every essential nutrient necessary to grow high quality organic plants. No more wondering what is missing in your soil mix, and no more buying store bought soil only to reamend it once you get it home. With our B.Y.O.S. Flower Mix you can grow lush dense plants by just adding water. For increased yields we advise you to* feed your plants compost tea once per week.
If that doesn't work I'm going with this. ....
Mixing directions per cubic foot of soil:
Mix 6 cups of B.Y.O.S. Flower mix with the following
3- Gallons Peat Moss
2- Gallons aeration material (rice hulls, perlite, etc.)
2- Gallons Composted material (worm castings, compost, etc.)
Let sit for 1-2 weeks. If not letting soil “cook” only plant
full size plants in mix as smaller plants may get burned.
Ingredients: Oyster shell flour, gypsum, azomite, Basalt Rock Dust, Bentonite, Crab Shells, Fish Meal,
Bat Guano, Alfalfa Meal, Neem cake, Fish Bone Meal, Kelp Meal, Humates, Diatomaceous Earth
This is my other buying option. ...
Basic super soil
*headpiECE
Here's a BASIC organic soil recipe that will produce damn fine results. Props to MoHo for originally posting...beginners give this a whirl if the "supersoils" seem intimidating or too expensive etc...
Base Mix:50% good potting soil (Black Gold,
OF, Roots Organics, etc.)
30% perlite (or rice hulls, if you can find them)
20% worm castings or quality compost
To that you can add all kinds of goodies, OR you can keep it simple as hell and just add:
1-2 TBSP dolomite lime per gallon of soil and
A dry fertilizer product (like Happy Frog 5-5-5 or Peace of Mind 5-5-5, or the Espoma Organic Traditions All-Purpose one, or Earth Juice's "Rainbow Mix", etc.)
Most of those dry fert brands ^ are like $7-15 per bag and you can just follow the application rates on the packages. It's usually like 1/4 cup per container. And yes, you can get all the way through flower with an "all-purpose" balanced fertilizer. In organic soil, you supply the soil with all the nutrients a plant needs, then feed the microbes and fungi in the soil with compost tea, and watch as the plants and the soil microbes "communicate" with one another... the plant will "ask" (via root exudates) the soil microbes for exactly what it needs, when it needs it... and will leave the rest behind in the soil. This is what most people don't get about organic soil growing. There is no need for manipulating N-P-K ratios to any significant degree. You aren't force-feeding your plants; you are just sliding their stool over to the buffet table and letting them choose.
I personally recommend watering with teas...not necessarily the entire time, but at least every third watering...adding fish emulsion etc during veg, and high P bat guano during flower...molasses molasses molasses...
Thank you for looking.
Basic super soil
*headpiECE
Here's a BASIC organic soil recipe that will produce damn fine results. Props to MoHo for originally posting...beginners give this a whirl if the "supersoils" seem intimidating or too expensive etc...
Base Mix:50% good potting soil (Black Gold,
OF, Roots Organics, etc.)30% perlite (or rice hulls, if you can find them)
20% worm castings or quality compost
To that you can add all kinds of goodies, OR you can keep it simple as hell and just add:
1-2 TBSP dolomite lime per gallon of soil and
A dry fertilizer product (like Happy Frog 5-5-5 or Peace of Mind 5-5-5, or the Espoma Organic Traditions All-Purpose one, or Earth Juice's "Rainbow Mix", etc.)
Most of those dry fert brands ^ are like $7-15 per bag and you can just follow the application rates on the packages. It's usually like 1/4 cup per container. And yes, you can get all the way through flower with an "all-purpose" balanced fertilizer. In organic soil, you supply the soil with all the nutrients a plant needs, then feed the microbes and fungi in the soil with compost tea, and watch as the plants and the soil microbes "communicate" with one another... the plant will "ask" (via root exudates) the soil microbes for exactly what it needs, when it needs it... and will leave the rest behind in the soil. This is what most people don't get about organic soil growing. There is no need for manipulating N-P-K ratios to any significant degree. You aren't force-feeding your plants; you are just sliding their stool over to the buffet table and letting them choose.
I personally recommend watering with teas...not necessarily the entire time, but at least every third watering...adding fish emulsion etc during veg, and high P bat guano during flower...molasses molasses molasses...
Thank you for looking.
Hey swampman. All seems to be working...i have some supersoil brewing that i made 2 days ago. Its from EUREKA ORGANIC B.Y.O.S. KIT. I added black kow,ewc and rice hulls for my mix. I turn once a day at the moment and it has a wierd smell.....like ammonia and poop. I also got the byos seedling mix and it seems legit so far. Im gonna use it as a base when i transplant and fill the bottom half with the flower mix. I got 5 stone dragons in the dirt and 2 mi5.
