With soils on the mind.
it’s just like baking. There are 1000s of muffins. Every flavor and variety imaginable. The one consistent factor is basically the amount of eggs, flour, oil. Add chocolate chips or brittle or gummy bears. Don’t matter because the base is solid.
with this soil base humus levels are high. Soil is very heavy. 7 gallon pot could weight 30 lbs or more. I replace perlite with pumice often and it gets even heavier, but very homogeneous and “spongy”.
This is from the fungi, being fed from the brown rice during soil build and top dressed malted barley powder, usually once in veg once in flower.
this sponge allows for a huge increase in CEC value and basically the plant to have near perfect nutrition as it wants it.
when watering i use run off as a tool for judging over / under water to get it just righ.
IF ANY water runs through when watering. Like right away comes through to pan then those containers are WAY under watered. If there are rivers of running irrigation through the soil then it’s become dirt. No longer a value other than to hold root structure. Beneficials are dormant snd cysts have form causing peat to become hydrophobic
if there’s a puddle of water say… 30 min to 1 hour after watering then she’s over watered. Back off. Generally speaking 5% pot volume per day in water.
this soil will wick water effortlessly as well.
Easy as heck to dump your daily water in the tray and it’s sucked right up in hours. Ran entire grows like this. Would be great for bigger wicking containers.
Yes good stuff, my coffee time is over so I guess back to real life.