Newbs first soil Mix, How do you think it will perform?

[Budder]

I mixed up my growing media today.

it consisted of"

~9L of coco coir

5L of premium potting soil

5L of perlite

 

how do you think it will go?

should i add anything? or is it sweet as tits

[mull]

I don't often use that much coco, but you could consider foods. Perhaps some blended manures and castings. Maybe a pinch of blood n bone. Some compost, humus.

 

Have a good run mate

[Budder]

thanks dude, i might chuck a liter or two of normal potting mix or a bit of sand, i live in NW WA so the Sand here is Red and supposedly high in nutrients.

[loylty gets u nothing]

should be a heavy mix

id add some more perlite

but thats just me

are u using coco specific nutes?

i flush all my old coco and reuse it

in a soil coir perlite mix

i then feed coco nutes once i got some plants on there

all the best

bil

 

i find by feeding nutes from a bottle

i dont havta worry bout adding all the ammendments that is in good soil

[bufo marinus]

Yeah I was wondering what your plan was for feeding Budder.

Just shooting the breeze I would have gone with either a Premium Potting and Perlite OR Coco and Perlite.

The Premium mix could have then had some other goodies added if desired and the Coco would get coco nutes.

Coco itself has nothing nutritional, but the root mass loves growing through it

DON'T OVERWATER IT, once every 2-3 days in veg tops

Just a few thoughts, good luck and happy gardening

[Budder]

the soil is nice and fluffy so i suppose there is plenty of air in there, I got the brunnings Nitrophoska Coir Peat Brick (NPK 16:3:12) its got slow release fertilizer in it. as for nutes should i start adding them strait away or wait a week or two until the plant gets established? and what nutrients would you recomend. i had a look at my local home hardware (im in a small town so theres no bunnings:) the the only liquid nutrients i saw was some "fish emulsion fertilizer". some "Seasol" and some "Dynamic lifter" liquid organic fertilizer. can you use soluble fertilizer like that Thrive stuff?

 

what nutes would you recommend for veg?

Edited August 12, 2007 by Budder