peppermanbaha said:
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soil Ok, so I got sh!tty soil, now what
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caroltlw said:
Perlite is expanded volcanic glass, styrofoam is made from plastic.
Perlite is also much more porous.
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Ive found that just using organic compost for ~$1/bag now is working out for me a lot better than the name brand Jungle growth and miracle grow.
When you shake out the dirt from the root, if you keep them in the shade and moist for the next few days they wont go into shock so bad. I recently had to separate 4 plants from one pot, the roots were all tangled, had to shake out and wash out alll the dirt, repotted, no shock whatsoever. good luck..
When you shake out the dirt from the root, if you keep them in the shade and moist for the next few days they wont go into shock so bad. I recently had to separate 4 plants from one pot, the roots were all tangled, had to shake out and wash out alll the dirt, repotted, no shock whatsoever. good luck..
have you ever thought of mixing the two soils together .
@peppermanbaha yeah, I have kicked around that idea, but since I have a whole bag of the crappy stuff I figure I better find a way to fix it.
@POTAWIE I'll look up peat. Is it a fairly complete substrate? I like all in one's kind of stuff. Have never considered MG soils, I even looked at the bags at the store. I'm just a little old school I guess, I'd rather throw some compost, or peat or animal turds into the mix before using something like MG.
@POTAWIE I'll look up peat. Is it a fairly complete substrate? I like all in one's kind of stuff. Have never considered MG soils, I even looked at the bags at the store. I'm just a little old school I guess, I'd rather throw some compost, or peat or animal turds into the mix before using something like MG.
No, was just a random bag of soil, all the PKN were pretty low. It's a pretty loose mix already, and actually what I feel it needs from the way the water puddles first before it sinks in, shows a lot of surface tension, is some good organic matter. It seems to be barely anything more than chipped wood with a bit of perlite. It most definitely needs some goodness added into it. The chicken manure seems to be a good way to get a little supm in the mix that would be good. Some compost in there as well and I think it should be ok. Shoot who knows, this might be yet another way to make a batch of good growing medium, starting with a bag of sh!tty soil.
diablo when you add the manure and compost throw some shcultz in there too works great.
