Natures Living Soil.

[Wrangler1]

Natures Living Soil?

Is their concentrate the typical Subcool recipe only using Worm Castings without the potting soil? I cut this recipe down to .33%=4 cubic small batch recipe, so it calls for 10 gallons of potting soil and 3-6 pounds of worm castings. so, what I am asking is if I use the 3-6 pounds without adding the soil, will that make a similar concentrate. Anything you would add or take away from this mix.

New 'Super Soil' Recipe by Subcool - Makes ~12 ft^{3. (paramount seeds recipe)}

• 8 – 1.5 ft³ bags of high quality base soil
• 1 – 33lb. bag of Worm Castings
• 2.5 lbs. Fish Bone Meal
• 5 lbs. High Phosphorus Bat Guano
• 5 lbs. Blood Meal
• 2.5 lbs. Bone Meal
• 3 cups. Oyster Shell
• 3 cups. Kelp Meal
• 3 cups Alfalfa Meal
• 3/4 cup Epsom Salt
• 1 cup Dolomite Lime
• 2 cups Azomite
• 2 TBS powdered Humic Acid

[buffalobuds]

Yes Perilite........Lots of it.................

[PLreef]

One cup of dolomite lime seems low but I could be wrong.

[Wrangler1]

Yes Perilite........Lots of it.................

of course, but I am thinking of trying pumice or some of the other aeriators also✌️

[Wrangler1]

One cup of dolomite lime seems low but I could be wrong.

i will have to look more into that; especially because I am using mostly RO water!

[buffalobuds]

dolomite about right it's slow release

[MrPNW]

Even though I’m using 7 gallon pots I’m going to give the NLS super soil recipes a try on my next grow.

Here’s Subcool’s article.
https://hightimes.com/news/subcools-...-step-by-step/

Nature’s Living Soil has two recipes, one their own and the super soil one. The super soil recipe is sobcool’s super soil minus the base organic potting soil.

https://www.natureslivingsoil.com/instructions

I ask Richard from NLS,
What exactly is the difference between the two methods [recipes]? I don’t mean ratios, but why two methods? Does one work better?

He replied,
Basically for containers 10 gallons and smaller there is not much difference. Over 10 gallons the super soil has the advantage because the roots have a centralized place for the nutrient rich mix. Under 10 gallons the roots will get everywhere anyways. The theory behind the Super Soil method is that when the plants are young and more delicate they are in a more “normal” soil and will not burn as they mature, the roots reach the super soil layer when they can handle the hotter soil and take full advantage of it. If planting directly into living soil method it is still a good idea to make a little hole where you are going to plant and fill it with regular potting soil as a buffer.

[Wrangler1]

Mt.P,

Bingo!

Nature’s Living Soil has two recipes, one their own and the super soil one. The super soil recipe is sobcool’s super soil minus the base organic potting soil.

https://www.natureslivingsoil.com/instructions

This is what I am trying to achieve: Concentrate!

Rather than pay $60 oer 10lbs, I want to build the concentrate so I can store it that way, then mix with potting soil when I am ready for it. So my plan is to blend the mix with with only castings. Make sense.

[MrPNW]

You might find this useful. Separating your ingredients can make a longer shelf life. I sent it to NLS and he was thankful.

Just an FYI I saw this on GWE site. Wondered why it was 2-parts, this explained it.

Heavy Harvest Boogie Brew 2-Part Tea

Boogie Brew “HH’ (‘Heavy Harvest”) is still super simple and easy to use: As with our original Boogie Brew, one cup of total ingredients are added to 5 gallons of chlorine-free water. Half a cup each, (equal amounts), of both Parts A, (“Boogie Base”) and B, (“Boogie Boost”), are combined and added together for each 5 gallons of Brew.

By separating the ingredients into two individually-packaged components we have been able to maintain product freshness, leading to more stable storage conditions, (Boogie Brew HH has a greatly extended shelf-life). Furthermore, this 2-part approach gave us the opportunity of using even stronger doses of Veeganic additives, allowing for higher-than-ever potency levels of brewed-product, (finished tea).

Now a better value and quality than ever before, Heavy Harvest Boogie Brew Tea is unequivocally the ultimate choice for Pro-Brewers!

When brewing and subsequently watering your garden after treating with any compost tea you may need to use a chlorine/ chloramine filter like the Boogie-Blue Water Filter to brew better tea and preserve the microorganisms in your garden soil especially if you draw from municipal water sources.

2-Part Tea consists of two (separate) products combined into one duo-pack as follows:

BOOGIE-BASE (Part A) INGREDIENTS: Worm Castings, Composted Wood Chips, Bio-Char, Trace Ocean Minerals, Volcanic Rock Ash & Fossilized Kelp.

BOOGIE-BOOST (Part B) INGREDIENTS: Soluble Kelp Extract, Soybean Hydrolysate, Kelp Meal, Nutritional Yeast, Soybean Meal, Humates, Evaporated Cane Juice (Sugar), Alfalfa Meal, Humic Acid with Potash, Rock Phosphate, Langbeinite, Greensand.

Burlap brew-bag included

Eco-packed from 100% recycled paper with air-permeable moisture membrane.

All Boogie Brew products come with a 30 day satisfaction guarantee.

[MrPNW]

One other thing. I noticed NLS uses Neem Meal. I believe this helped to make the fungus gnat issue I had a lesser concern in my weed pots. They came from an African violet I had in the tent and didn’t like getting into the weed much at all.

https://www.plantonix.com/neem-seed.php

[Wrangler1]

Btw, I have used 3, 5, 7, and now ten gallon bags. They all work, but the smaller they are, the more you have to recharge with tea! Also, RO water will cause you to need calmag of sorts and maybe epsom salt foliar sprays. RO lacks mineral content and you will end up with defiency's

[Wrangler1]

Neem seed meal enhances microbial activity, making your soil even more alive! It also strengthens root systems, and can help control unwanted nematode populations, fungus, and soil pathogens.

[MrPNW]

While not harming the good nematodes.