Organic Experiments under the Scorpion Diablo

[Les @HLG]

I'm starting a new grow and decided to get back to organics. Why?? Because I'm lazy lol! And old.... haha! And I want to try some various mixes just for giggles.

I went shopping for soil this afternoon and found that my favorite nursery had some new products. One was Coast of Maine's Castine Blend Raised Bed mix. This is an all in one soil with great amendments already in it. Listed ingredients:
An enriched blend of fully cured, locally-sourced compost, peat, biochar, worm castings, dehydrated poultry manure, kelp meal, lobster meal, greensand, lime, and mycorrhizae. Great for growing healthy vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
It is OMRI listed for use in organic gardens.

My plan is to use this as is from the bag, no other additives in 2 pots. In another 2 pots I'll blend it with dome organic potting soil, and add a small amount of Epsoma Garden Tone organic nutrients to make my own custom blend that should be a little hotter than the stock blend. And 2 more pots with my usual soil mix. We'll see what kind if results we get. I'll be growing autos, not decided what strains yet. And I may end up with 16 pots total, some of which may go out to the greenhouse when weather permits.
I just love to experiment!

So grab a seat, this is going to be fun!

 

[Big Sul]

I’m always along for the ride.

 

[RustyStarbuck72]

I'm starting a new grow and decided to get back to organics. Why?? Because I'm lazy lol! And old.... haha! And I want to try some various mixes just for giggles.

I went shopping for soil this afternoon and found that my favorite nursery had some new products. One was Coast of Maine's Castine Blend Raised Bed mix. This is an all in one soil with great amendments already in it. Listed ingredients:
An enriched blend of fully cured, locally-sourced compost, peat, biochar, worm castings, dehydrated poultry manure, kelp meal, lobster meal, greensand, lime, and mycorrhizae. Great for growing healthy vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
It is OMRI listed for use in organic gardens.

My plan is to use this as is from the bag, no other additives in 2 pots. In another 2 pots I'll blend it with dome organic potting soil, and add a small amount of Epsoma Garden Tone organic nutrients to make my own custom blend that should be a little hotter than the stock blend. And 2 more pots with my usual soil mix. We'll see what kind if results we get. I'll be growing autos, not decided what strains yet. And I may end up with 16 pots total, some of which may go out to the greenhouse when weather permits.
I just love to experiment!

So grab a seat, this is going to be fun!

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I'm in mate.. Bring it on

 

[WildBill]

Gonna watch this. I bought some Coast of Maine's Lobster compost. It's a very nice product. I'm eager to use in this upcoming grow.

 

[Les @HLG]

I put 2 bags of the lobster compost on my raised beds last year. like that what could have ended up as waste is being made into a compost!

Gonna watch this. I bought some Coast of Maine's Lobster compost. It's a very nice product. I'm eager to use in this upcoming grow.

 

[Les @HLG]

I started filling pots this afternoon. This is a dense mixture and I'm bit concerned with how well it may aerate. We'll see. There will only be 2 pots of just this blend. The others will be blended with some organic potting soil.

And I'll be using 16 three gallon pots! Some will likely end up in the greenhouse as I'll try to keep the shorter stains in doors

And speaking of strains, here is what I'll be growing:
6 Linda Seeds Gorilla Glue autos
2 Seed Stockers Wedding Glue
1 Linda Seeds Auto Purple Kush
2 Fast Buds Blue Dream
1 Blimburn Cream Auto
2 Dinafem Blue Kush
2 Linda Seeds NYC Diesel auto

Now that should keep things interesting!

 

[WildBill]

I put 2 bags of the lobster compost on my raised beds last year. like that what could have ended up as waste is being made into a compost!

There's a little hole in the wall place that specializes in crawdads. I've been thinking about talking to the owner into getting scraps to compost.
If I had one of those tumblers, I could do a small batch test pretty quicky. I've never composted such stuff.
If I still had a chipper/shredder and delivery of power line chipped up trimmings, I'd definitely do it.
When I wanted 'fast compost' back in the day, I'd run my material thru my chipper/shredder and blow it into a temp open enclosure to form the pile. Easy way to layer your product and wet as you go. I've made some crazy hot compost that way.

I could do it now, but with what I have on hand, It would take a long time to decay and a lot of work to assemble.
Maybe some day, but it's easy to order the compost.

It does look, feel and smells like it's gonna be an excellent product. We'll see how well it works with this upcoming run.

 

[Les @HLG]

Well I filled 4 pots last night and just fill the other 12........... That's a LOT of soil! I figure about 8 cu.Ft total with the reycled soil added in.

@ pots got just Coast of Maine, all the others got a roughly 50/50 blend with Lambert's potting soil. These each got a tablespoon of Epsoma Garden Tone and a 1/2 tsp. of blood meal.
This will be water only if I can, if not I'll be using a new method i talked a friend into trying...lol! I don't use teas at all, I'm not convinced in the slightest that they are worth the effort. What I will do is make a slurry of worm castings. Some thing like a quart of castings in a gallon of water and water them with it if they start looking hungry.

And another break from my normal protocol. I'm going to soak the seeds for an hour, and plant direct to the pots. I honestly don't like doing this, I've not had the greatest success doing this in the past, but I just want to change up things and see what happens. Also, once the have well established roots, I'll bottom water just to make my life easier and make use of the tray.

 

[Big Sul]

Well I filled 4 pots last night and just fill the other 12........... That's a LOT of soil! I figure about 8 cu.Ft total with the reycled soil added in.

@ pots got just Coast of Maine, all the others got a roughly 50/50 blend with Lambert's potting soil. These each got a tablespoon of Epsoma Garden Tone and a 1/2 tsp. of blood meal.
This will be water only if I can, if not I'll be using a new method i talked a friend into trying...lol! I don't use teas at all, I'm not convinced in the slightest that they are worth the effort. What I will do is make a slurry of worm castings. Some thing like a quart of castings in a gallon of water and water them with it if they start looking hungry.

And another break from my normal protocol. I'm going to soak the seeds for an hour, and plant direct to the pots. I honestly don't like doing this, I've not had the greatest success doing this in the past, but I just want to change up things and see what happens. Also, once the have well established roots, I'll bottom water just to make my life easier and make use of the tray.

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EWC Slurry is the BOMB!

 

[WildBill]

EWC Slurry is the BOMB!

In my outdoor Earthbox grow last year, I made a slurry of compost, EWC and J and added it to the compost on top of the EB at flower and then about 3 weeks later. Girl barely had a fade when she was done.