How to Find Organic Food Recipes
most super soil recipes online use around forty poundsof organic and inorganic fertilizer inputs per cubic yard of mix - here we'regoing to use around half that. i want to create a grower friendly mix forcultivating fast-growing light loving fruiting annuals in containers indoorswith a vegetative period of around three to four weeks beforeswitching to flower. my basic indoor organic soil mix for container plants is basedon 17 easily obtainable ingredients that fall into four main categories. and although it is basic i am not. fibrous textures, humic matter, aggregates andnutrients - i will deal with each category in turn and you'll find the full recipe inthe video description below for those of
you who think i talk too quickly. aconcrete mixer is an ideal tool to blend all the ingredients togetherhomogeneously. first fibrous textures-- really important, in fact they make uphalf of the overall potting mix. three-parts peat, one part aged redwood park and onepart coconut coir or 30 percent 10% and 10% respectively in terms of theoverall potting mix. essentially these ingredients provide a physical structurefor your potting mix all these components should feel light and airy soif your peat is compressed you'll need to fluff it up a bit first and who doesn't enjoy alittle fluffing when they get the chance look for growers white spaghnum peat moss i like the canadian stuff ey. redwood
bark should be ground up aged at least nine months and from asustainable source. it should feel really light and soft. coco coir should be hydroponic gradenot the ornamental stuff so that means well washed and buffered to ensure low saltlevels. next humic matter, this makes up a quarter of the recipe in terms of theoverall mix we're gonna need 5% humus and 5% worm castings humic matter isessentially all about adding beneficial biology into your mix friendly bacteriafungi nematodes and protozoa all work together to break down all the organicnutrients into a form that plants can assimilate which makes your soil alive! aggregates make up the other 25
percent they help to improve thephysical structure and porosity of your soil. they're great for improvingdrainage and air content - so important for healthy roots - and they allow you tofuture plans more often. the 25% aggregates is made up of four parts perlite to one part lava rock. lava rock is denser than perlite so it doesn't riseto the top -- this helps to create homogeneousdrainage throughout the media. so that's our base now it's time to add the mainorganic inputs and this is where it gets very interesting and there's a lot ofscope for experimentation and discussion but remember though my goal is simply toprovide a broad spectrum of both quick
easily assimilated long-lastingfertility for a quick veg period and then straight into 8 to 10 weeks offlowering. i'm going to give you the doses in terms of pounds per cubic yard,grams per cubic foot, and grams per liter. bat guano, aka batpoop is an organic nitrogen powerhouse choose sustainably sourced stuff fromindonesia. it contains up to 50% soluble nitrate be careful it's highly solubleso if you use too much you'll burn your plants. some guano is lownitrogen and high phosphorus it depends on the bats' diet so always check thelabel. seabird guano - cool! fossilized sea bird poop usually from peru. ok it's a lesssoluble form of phosphorus but slow
release. steamed bone meal. this is abyproduct of the meat industry. it provides twice as much phosphorus as seabirdguano and also calcium with a small amount of nitrogen - it's less soluble than the guanos but itcompliments them because it's slow release. potassium sulphate -- it's a minedmineral available in refined inorganic or organic form - and as you'd expect itprovides sulfur and lots of potassium so it's great for both flowering and vegetative growth highly concentrated so do take care fine dolomite lime -- we primarily add this forph stabilization but it's also a great slow-release source of calcium andmagnesium don't overdo it or you'll lockout
iron which is a big no-no. feather mealis basically powdered protein very high in slow release nitrogen to keep yourplan green throughout their lifecycle azomite -- nothing comes even close todelivering all those super important trace elements at the right levels. it'smined from the midwest usa. it isn't cheap but it's incredible stuff hence why you'll see iton almost every super soil recipe and it also works great as a top dressing. driedpowdered sea kelp provides b vitamins growth hormones and trace elements -- watchout for elevated sodium though, and this stuff should be well washed. finally there'salfalfa meal: this is relatively low nutrients but it has good slow releasenitrogen content as well as triacontanol
a natural plant growth hormoneok that's it obviously there's a lot of other stuff you could add too - i'll flashthis up on the screen quickly so get ready with that pause button. if you'restarting off seedlings and cuttings and i suggest you change my recipe so thatit's faster draining and less dense in organic matter a quick fix would be toblend it one-to-one with a soilless mix such as vermipro or coco coir.alternatively you could buy a bag of medium strength potting mix - somethinglike vermisoil would be ideal the truth is you'll have a hard time findingtrue organic super soil in bags - hence all the diy recipes on the net. at this pointi should point out that there are
amazingly rich and wonderful pottingsoils out there and yes they come in sealed bags which makes the ride home alot less messy. vermisoil by vermicrop organics is widely regarded as frigginawesome and definitely a favorite with growers -- notably there's also itsstronger and super potent big brother vermifire which is arguably rightup there at the top and what you can buy in terms of quality, decadence andrichness. proponents of super soil claim the stuff is so nutritionallydense that it can take a transplant right through to harvest with no need to top dress or to add any liquid fertilizers further down the line. sounds great intheory but bear in mind that super soils
are too rich for cutting seedlings andyoung plants -- you'll need a lighter mix. questions and comments down below asalways please log in to youtube and subscribe to my channel thanks forlistening and happy growing amigos this is everest star-shaped spread-eagled smearedhead to toe in seabird guano and lightly dusted in dolomite lime. bye bye.
