blood meal ratio's for guerrilla grow?

[pertwee]

Hi guys n girls, how's things?

I'm currently getting ready for the up coming grow season..

I've got a variety of seeds that can't wait to pop.. og kush, pineapple kush and 3 different bagseed strains.

I will start the seeds sometime next month, in the mean time I am gathering equipment, nutes etc.

I've found a beaut little spot, Nth E facing gully with a nice little Creek too.

I went to bunnings today to get a few things, and a grabbed a bag of richgro blood meal to add to my soil mix. The directions on the back only write about adding to the soil by the square metre and not cubic measures, is there a way of converting it accurately? Sorry, I am no mathematician,

[mirrors]

id just multiply by the depth you are going to dig and use that amount

 

Square Meters is length times width which is an AREA measurement

Cubic Meters is Length times Width times Height a Volume measurement.

Edited July 31, 2014 by mirrors

[pertwee]

So if I was digging a 20 - 30 litre hole, would 1 square metre worth be sufficient?

[chopperw33d]

The stuff from bunning is surface nutes. Really concentrated stuff, they only give the square meter as the nutes brake down slowly as rain/water hits them and washes down throughout the soil. So if your mixing it into the soil and you dont water your soil mix each week or it rains the nutes will stay whole in the soil. Which is not as good as you might think, as if you put your babies into the ground and you water them the roots are not even near the pellets so it will wash out before the even get there. Also organic pellets smell really good to animals like bandicoots, they well dig under your plants to get to the food if it's not fenced off. And due to the high concentrate of the nutes you can get many issues after large amount of rain. As your soil becomes soaked all the stuff you mixed is brakes down at once. So the soil becomes overload with nutes, which causes ph change, root burn.

 

If your getting ready now, go throw some ya blood meal around, give it a water then leave it do it's work. Get yourself a ph meter from bunnings I think there like 12$. Test your soil. Then add what you need if any to get the right ph. Check your area for soil consistency, might need to add sand/perlite to air rate it. As these are all things that are hard to change once your girls are going. You can always add food. But if your soil ph or drainage is not right, besides digging your girls up, your stuck with it. And all the food in the world will not make your girls grow if your got water logged soil.

[pertwee]

Thanks for the info mate, I have to get back down there with a shovel and some gear probably tomorrow..

The soil looks very sandy, as the crow flies it would only be a few hundred metres from the ocean and about 30 m above sea level..

As for the wildlife, there are plenty of wallabies and foxes around, so I will definitely use some mesh to fence the areas off..

[wannagrowbuds]

I have been reading about organics for a couple of months now. I will be doing a container grow and was going to buy all the separate amendments like blood and bone and kelp meal, biochar, etc, but settled on Neutrog Rocket Fuel. It has all those things in it plus everything else your plants will need. Get some of this, some coco peat and some earthworm castings and dig it all into your holes now to let it cook before planting in a month or so. If it is sandy already you probably won't need drainage enhancement like perlite. Edited August 9, 2014 by wannagrowbuds

[pertwee]

The rocket fuel looks good, although would it not be wise to boost up potassium levels during flower?

I don't plan on adding perlite, but I do have vermiculite to add which should help with water retention..

[wannagrowbuds]

They do another one called KaBloom which is for flowering, you could add some of that too.

[louise]

So if I was digging a 20 - 30 litre hole, would 1 square metre worth be sufficient?

 

More than sufficient...

 

1m² is a square that measures 100cm long by 100cm wide... the fertiliser is meant to be forked into a depth of 10cm... so... 100cm long by 100cm wide by 10 cm deep = sufficient fertiliser for 100 litres of soil.

[pertwee]

 

More than sufficient...

 

1m² is a square that measures 100cm long by 100cm wide... the fertiliser is meant to be forked into a depth of 10cm... so... 100cm long by 100cm wide by 10 cm deep = sufficient fertiliser for 100 litres of soil.

Thanks Louise, that really makes me look like a dummy