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1¾ cup prilled (pelletized) fast-acting dolomite lime
¼ cup blood meal
¼ cup high N bird/bat guano 12-8-2 N-P-K
½ heaping cup feather meal
1 cup un-steamed granular bone meal (like Whitney Farms brand)
½ cup bulb food
¼ cup powdered soft rock phosphate
½ heaping cup powdered gypsum
½ cup kelp meal
4 heaping cups composted steer manure (this inoculates your mix with specialized microbeasties
and primo organic matter)
½ cup Azomite granular (add an additional ¼ cup greensand if no Azomite)
1 cup granular humic acid ore (such as Down to Earth brand)
1 cup alfalfa meal (or 2 cups pellets—make sure pellets are all organic no additives)
½ cup rock phosphate granular (optional)
1 heaping cup organic rice (important for the good fungi in this soil mix)
REV'S TIP
This recipe is only for use with pure water sources, like reverse osmosis, rain,
or distilled water. Do not use well, tap, or spring water with this recipe.
This mix should be moistened with chlorine-free water, but be sure not to get it soaking wet. It should
also be turned over every few days, for about 15 days before use. This is what I call “cooking” your soil,
and letting it get pretty dry before use is fine. Again, the nutrients don't evaporate or anything over time,
so there are no worries there. If this soil mix turns out to be too powerful for some reason, just cut it with
good quality bagged organic soil until you get the strength your environment and genetics demand.
Ifindcookingmineforabout30daysworksthebestforme,butIhaveoftenuseditsooner,forexample
after 2 weeks. Just remember the warmer it is outside, the faster the cooking processes will happen. You
can use a soil pH meter to tell when it is finished cooking too. I wait until it is in the 6.2-6.8 range, which
normally takes about 2 weeks, because as it kicks off cooking the pH will often be very low. Readings of
4.9 aren't uncommon when it first starts to cook.
This soil mix is meant to be used along with the spike and layer TLO dynamic, and while it is quite
capable of standing alone, it works super naturally when you add the spike and layering dynamics. If this
is too overwhelming of a formula, just use some of the fast soil mix recipes in this topic, or use the base
mix of this recipe with no cooking at all in order to get your feet wet, so to speak.
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