Gee64
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I think both are worth running. What ammendments? Any calciums?For those not following my 'Cloning with Jadam' thread I'm happy to report that I've had good success getting clones to root in cups filled with perlite. Since I now have a couple of matching clones from my CBD plant and thought I would flower them together and figured I might as well make an experiment out of it.
So..... I'm going to try two slightly different mixes as follows:
World Traveler Edition -Coco
20% Old soil from prior rounds
20% Organics (10% worm castings, 5% aged leaf mold, 5% compost (fines))
20% Carbon (coco)
30% Aeration (perlite (large) grain of rice size)
10% Biochar
Backyard Farmer Edition -Compost
20% Old soil from prior rounds
40% Organics (10% worm castings, 5% aged leaf mold, 5% compost (fines), 20% compost (mids))
40% Aeration (30% hydroton clay balls (small marble size), 10% Biochar
The main differences from previous rounds are an extra 10% aeration, hydroton vs perlite, and whether or not the carbon component can be satisfied from that in the compost. I've read a bunch on composting now and it seems like the material left in the pile after the heating phase is carbon in various stages of breakdown.
It is recommended to used "aged" compost of a year or more but the best I can do is about 3 months (although part of that is a lot older than that). I am trying to speed up the process by using JMS, but we'll see if at least some of the carbon is available for the microbes.
So, unless someone has thoughts on some major issue with the above mixes, I'll probably mix them this weekend and let them sit for two weeks.