Organic soil mix advice requested

[MRRun1]

I am a brand new grower. I have some AF's growing in HF and OF. I have mixed a batch of soil to establish a NT setup for a small next run. I would like some thoughts on what I have mixed up for an anticipated planting in the next 2+ months.

Here is what I mixed up:
2 CF Sp. PM (Home Depot)
7 gallons Happy Frog
4 gallons EWC
4 gallons Bu's Compost
1CF Rice Hulls
4.5 gallons Grow Stones
3 gallons Bio-Char (activated before I added to mix)

Mineral Mix:
3 cups Calcium Carbonate
2.5 cups Soft Rock Phosphate
1.5 cups gypsum

Rock Dusts:
2.5 cups Azomite
2.5 cups Basalt
1 cup Greensand
7 cups Glacial Rock Dust

Other:
2.5 Oyster Shell Flour
1.5 cups Neem Meal
1.5 cups Karanja Meal
3 cups Kelp Meal
3 cups Crab Meal
2 cups Fish Bone Meal
2 cups Bone Meal
1 cup Alfalfa Meal

Some of the items listed I picked up specifically for this mix, some I had left from my first planting. I wet it down very lightly a day after I mixed it up with some extra compost tea I had brewed for my small current planting.

It was heating up in the middle fairly well for a week or two. I watered it some more with a fungal dominant tea and the cooking stopped.

My questions are:
Is the listed mix too heavy/too light on any needed amendments? Is it normal for a cooking mix to just stop heating after just a couple of weeks?

My plan would be to put this mix at the bottom of my next grow pots, 5 and 7 gallon fabric pots. I will be planting various AF's, mostly indica or indica dominant hybrids. All indoor in 3x3 tent with 4 bulb t5 for seedling and beginning of veg, adding LED for the remaining grow.

This is all new to me so any input is appreciated.

 

[Eyes on Fire]

Hey dude, ill tackle your mix in the morning or so,maybe later tonight,imho it needs some refining. but yes after a week or two(typically closer to 2 weeks) the heavy active and blending stages are done by then. after that I find its good to give it a simple mix to let it breath and re mix the stuffs,and redistribute the foods,life and again,letting it breath. learn the moisture squeeze test too. too wet it'll not be good. too dry,well not good enough and wont blend as completely as one typically needs for ease of grow(s) imo.

 

[MRRun1]

Hey dude, ill tackle your mix in the morning or so,maybe later tonight,imho it needs some refining. but yes after a week or two(typically closer to 2 weeks) the heavy active and blending stages are done by then. after that I find its good to give it a simple mix to let it breath and re mix the stuffs,and redistribute the foods,life and again,letting it breath. learn the moisture squeeze test too. too wet it'll not be good. too dry,well not good enough and wont blend as completely as one typically needs for ease of grow(s) imo.

Thank you brother. I do have a breathable cover over it right now. I have mixed it a couple of times but I do need to break it down into smaller containers. What it is in right now is too full and I end up spilling out as I mix. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Eyes on Fire]

you said you already mixed this? well, me personally I would take out the round grow stones.

I would add perlite and coco to this mix and some more castings. and some soil like Dr earths or maybe 10 gallons of a simple thinning mix or a bag od dr earth and some coco coir. depending on the age and dryness of the rice hulls its will degrade and deteriorate much faster leaving your mix starving for air later in the grow or next grow. you got tons of trace minerals in there. glacial rock dust,rock phosphates and azomite/elemite are mostly the same thing when added at higher levels. i would also increase you neem and kanja cake/meals to closer to double what you have currently. and I would add a half cup or maybe just under of some blood meal or cotton seed or feather meal. cotton seed AND blood meal work well. or feather and blood. a faster higher N content and a slower released one too for stability. not a ton of N.but bone meal you got covered.

please gimme an updated list once you work it.Thanks bro appreciated also when done mixing all the components up,how much do you have total gallons when you thin it some by maybe 3-5 gallons with 3-5 of perlite to start.let the rice hulls break down. use the coco in place and a small bit of perlite. far less hassles in the long run.

 

[MRRun1]

Thanks for the feedback Eyes on Fire. It is mixed up, about 3 weeks ago. I originally had it in a 50 gallon tote I believe. Earlier this week I put it in 2 heavier 27 gallon totes. I may have to get a third just to make room for additions and have a chance to mix it up without making too big of a mess.

Since I will be using the final mix as no till, would lava rock (pebble size) replace perlite well?

I have plenty of the Neem and Karanja as well as bone meal and some EWC left I can add. I will probably pick up Blood and Feather Meal and Coco next week.

I will post the final breakdown when I throw the rest in. I will set this aside for a couple of months most likely, depending on current plants finishing. Original plans were for 7 to 10 gallon fabric pots but I may go for 10 and 15 gallons so I can do a run or two of photos as I learn more. I appreciate you taking the time to evaluate this for me.

 

[Eyes on Fire]

no problem man. sure, the lava rock would work fine. But the PlantT! brand large or super course perlite it really nice and far cheaper. but either will work fine. and once the full breakdown is done please hit me up n ill look at it again man. no sweat. you want roughly the same amount of bloom and Veg foods. heavier feeders can use a touch more or even with larger flower strains you can add a touch more there as well. but with a 50 gallon mix I would not add more than 3-3.5 cups to start with for autos. and maybe 5 cups for photos total. I would go with 3 for autos and upwards of 5 for photos but 4 would work unless its an aggressive strain. should work fine man.