Subcool Supersoil UK version a few questions.

[Dazed]

This is the mix Eyes bro,

5ltrs Coco Coir
5ltrs Perlite
4lbs/2kg Worm Castings
4lbs/2kg Leaf Mold
10oz/300g Bone Meal 3.5-17-0
10oz/300g Bat Guano 1-10-1
10oz/300g Hoof and Horn 13-0-0
10oz/300g Seaweed Meal
1 tablespoon Volcanic Rock Dust
1 tablespoon Mycorrhizae
1/2 cup Egg shells
1.5 tbs Epsom Salts
1.5 tbs Powdered Dolomite Lime

I can always add more castings no problems and more coir, but my instinct is telling me more eggshells. I've looked everywhere for oyster shells and can't find them. I did use more molasses when I was using biobizz bottled nutes but assumed (probably wrongly) that subs mix was good enough that I didn't have to, but then I'm pretty sure he doesn't run LED.

Would be interesting to just cut some chicken pellets along with rock dust and some other bits like EWC, Esalts and kelp see what that works like. Works awesome for my outdoor container veg.

 

[Dazed]

Brother Dazed I have been caught in a shit storm of family troubles lately, so haven't been around much. I know A4 will chime in but I promise you, your cal/mag ratio's are off and causing some or most of your issues. Sucks you don't have access to all we have over here. But expect a pm from me, helping you with that hopefully. I am very partial to specific amendments and not a fan of any guano's because of how hot they are and tend to attract pests. I would much rather go the neem/karanja cake mix than guano based sources. Gypsum is a must along with some oyster meal but this will give you a better idea why the cal/mag ratio is so important.

It's still a little-known fact that the Calcium to Magnesium ratio determines how tight or loose a soil is. The more Calcium a soil has, the looser it is; the more Magnesium, the tighter it is, up to a point. Other things being equal, a high Calcium soil will have more Oxygen, drain more freely, and support more aerobic breakdown of organic matter, while a high Magnesium soil will have less Oxygen, tend to drain slowly, and organic matter will break down poorly if at all. In a soil with Magnesium higher than Calcium, organic matter may ferment and produce alcohol and even formaldehyde, both of which are preservatives. If you till up last years corn stalks and they are still shiny and green, you may have a soil with an inverted Calcium/Magnesium ratio. On the other hand, if you get the Calcium level too high, the soil will lose all its beneficial granulation and structure and the excessive Calcium will interfere with the availability of other nutrients. If you get them just right for your particular soil, you can drive over the garden and not have a problem with soil compaction.

Dub! So great to hear from you brother! Sorry to hear of your family troubles, hope things are getting back on track for you mate. I've had possibly the worst 3 months of my life, got to make us stronger though right?

I'm so glad you stopped by here, and also for confirming what I believe to be ca/mg problems. I've read so much about organic gardening of all kinds, and the ca/mg ratio has always popped up, but I just haven't been able to pin-point if that's what it was (even though I had a hunch too).

Thanks for joining the fun here, and honestly no rush with this, I'm not planning on growing anything indoors for a while yet, and my friend still has a few weeks to go before his second run.

Great to hear from you brother!

Personally I don't do the layered soil deal,I dont buy into that theory, the tap root goes straight to the bottom so I mix everything in, and just use a small plug for the seedling.

Your mix sounds decent enough, I would water in some epsom salts and molasses with every watering and it might just be all you need.

LED will suck the life out of cannabis if you let it.

Hey Ak man hows things?

Yeah I agree with that theory also to a point, with Autos I usually put a baco-roll cardboard tube in the centre of the pot and fill around it with the bottom 1/3 of the pot supersoil, middle allmix, top layer light mix, then fill the tube with light mix. I figured that way the tap root would go through the light mix initially, then the roots would gradually spread to the other layers, hmmmm maybe that doesn't sound too clever when read back lmao.

Thanks for stopping by my friend.

 

[Dazed]

Can get Gypsum easily here, crushed oyster shell too.

 

[DubV]

I simply add in at 2 cups each per cubic foot. Or mix them together and add 4 cups per cubic foot.. Also do you have access to potassium silicate? Finding huge benefits using this in my veggie garden as a foliar with aloe and coconut water. There is research coming out that silicon should be classed as a major nutrient...

Silicon is not classed as an essential nutrient, but, in response to a wealth of new findings highlighting the importance of this nutrient, that status may soon change. Silicon is the second most abundant mineral on the planet. It is everywhere. Clays are alumina silicates and sand is largely silicon, so how could there be a shortage of silicon? The answer lies in the form of silicon that enters the plant. Plants uptake silicon as silicicacid and this is what is missing in the soil. Something we have done in conventional agriculture appears to have compromised the conversion of insoluble silicon into the plant available form. It may reflect a mineral imbalance or we may have knocked out some of the soil microbe species that solubilise this mineral. It is not yet understood what drove the widespread deficiency but we do know that a healthy, disease suppressive soil should contain 100 ppm of monosilicic acid (as measured in a soil analysis) and very few soils come anywhere near that mark!
Little was known about the multiple roles of silicon until recently. It was known to be present in every soil but it was only when it became less plant available that it was realized that there may be a link between this loss and a host of growing problems. During the last decade, silicon seems to have become “flavor of the month” in the soil science community. Researchers have delved more deeply and hundreds of papers have been presented at the International Silicon Conferences in Brazil and South Africa. This neglected mineral is now emerging as a key player in proactive pest and disease management and the production of nutrient dense food.

 

[Dazed]

I simply add in at 2 cups each per cubic foot. Or mix them together and add 4 cups per cubic foot.. Also do you have access to potassium silicate? Finding huge benefits using this in my veggie garden as a foliar with aloe and coconut water. There is research coming out that silicon should be classed as a major nutrient...

Silicon is not classed as an essential nutrient, but, in response to a wealth of new findings highlighting the importance of this nutrient, that status may soon change. Silicon is the second most abundant mineral on the planet. It is everywhere. Clays are alumina silicates and sand is largely silicon, so how could there be a shortage of silicon? The answer lies in the form of silicon that enters the plant. Plants uptake silicon as silicicacid and this is what is missing in the soil. Something we have done in conventional agriculture appears to have compromised the conversion of insoluble silicon into the plant available form. It may reflect a mineral imbalance or we may have knocked out some of the soil microbe species that solubilise this mineral. It is not yet understood what drove the widespread deficiency but we do know that a healthy, disease suppressive soil should contain 100 ppm of monosilicic acid (as measured in a soil analysis) and very few soils come anywhere near that mark!
Little was known about the multiple roles of silicon until recently. It was known to be present in every soil but it was only when it became less plant available that it was realized that there may be a link between this loss and a host of growing problems. During the last decade, silicon seems to have become “flavor of the month” in the soil science community. Researchers have delved more deeply and hundreds of papers have been presented at the International Silicon Conferences in Brazil and South Africa. This neglected mineral is now emerging as a key player in proactive pest and disease management and the production of nutrient dense food.

+1,

So I'm estimating, but am I right in thinking that a cubic foot would be roughly a 25-30ltr pot? Jeeeeez, I've massively underestimated that! I added 1/2 a cup of chicken egg shells and 1/5tbs esalts to 50ltrs of subs mix

I think your onto something Dub my friend!

Is this the kind of thing, if it is, we can get it here in UK easily.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/1516...ICEP3.0.0-L&ff14=122&viphx=1&ops=true&ff13=80

I know silica is a staple component of most chem schedules, wonder if LED sucks that out too..





Much love Dub brother,

 

[DubV]

1 cubic foot equals 28.31 liters my friend Let me look into that product but looks about right for a good foliar product. Much love to you my brother We will get you sorted

 

[A4]

+1,

So I'm estimating, but am I right in thinking that a cubic foot would be roughly a 25-30ltr pot? Jeeeeez, I've massively underestimated that! I added 1/2 a cup of chicken egg shells and 1/5tbs esalts to 50ltrs of subs mix

I think your onto something Dub my friend!

Is this the kind of thing, if it is, we can get it here in UK easily.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/1516...ICEP3.0.0-L&ff14=122&viphx=1&ops=true&ff13=80

I know silica is a staple component of most chem schedules, wonder if LED sucks that out too..





Much love Dub brother,

Dazed, it is the same thing but for mixes I prefer the powdered variety:

Here

or

Here <--- For some reason Amazon is not letting me hot link any longer

So happy to see everyone chipping in! You got Master EoF, DubV the quiet overseer, myself. I will tell you who else I would like to see involved is Duggy. His mix has been looking awesome lately and he is over on your side of the pond so may be able to make some suggestions on things that are exchangeable in your area.

 

[DubV]

I also use a powdered form called Agsil16h and it is water soluble

 

[Dazed]

Fantastic. This is brill! Agreed, lets get Duggy here see what he thinks too.

Thanks guys

 

[Dazed]

We can get NPK industries RAW silica here easily, cheap too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NPK-Indus...-Supplement-/271205086405?hash=item3f251534c5