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Just to clear this from the get go, this diary is not a run. If anything, it’ll be a weekly progress report about what is happening to the soil and the red wriggler worms.
Starting today, i will be actively taking care of the soil and vermiculture of my last Amnesia Haze run. As the nutrients were kinda all over the place during the run, it’ll be nice to get the ph and nutes regulated without harming any plants 😂
There are clear objectives going into this.
1. Above all, a learning process
2. Regulate the ph of soil to 6.0
3. Regulate PPM
4. Keep the environment stable
I don’t have any exact plan how to achieve these objectives. I suppose going into it that alot will be trial and error but we’ll come out wiser nonetheless!
It’s worms, fungi and microorganisms. What can go wrong?!
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March 9
It’s a 40l pot. Bottom 30% was BioBizz AllMix. Top 70% was BioBizz LightMix. There are remnants of the following products in the soil:
(BioBizz)
Microbes, Calmag, BioGrow, BioBloom, TopMax, PH Down
1x strawberry, cut in half
The entire root system from the Amnesia Haze (as the roots die off, they will be reprocessed by the living)
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As a start, i want to be certain there is enough microlife and food for the microlife. The worms will take care of anything else organic.
Watered the soil today with 7L of dechlorinated tapwater + 0.4g/l Microbes + 0.3ml/l CalMag + 1ml/l BioGrow + PH Down to 6.0
Runoff was 6.5
Reminder to purchase a PPM meter..
Next update in 7 days
@Spike_KCanG, the soil food Web is the best advice about.. check it out... calmag is for plants but I get what your trying to do.. experiment is the best experience.. Good luck mate...
@Green_claws, preventative stupidity? 😂 I wasn't sure if the living actively convert calcium and/or magnesium after consumption, or if they are affected by it at all. Nor do I know if the fungi and/or bacteria can use it. I have not gotten that far with my YouTube/Google research.. yet 😉 If found to be beneficial, I had no plans of increasing the dosage nor the frequency of application (once a week).
Also a good tip.. if you farm bacteria the ph will go up if you farm fungi the ph will come down.. get a good balance and they will keep you ph in the sweet spot..some sort of sugar for bacteria and brown plant material for fungi.. hope this helps...
@Green_claws, those are some really great and useful tips. Thanks a bunch for that! For the time being, I'll just be observing and taking notes. Finding out what influences what and how much. The soil itself is completely drained of its prepackaged nutrients. There is just organic material for the living to feed from.
Seeing as there is little to nothing to do for the soil at the moment, my focus is on keeping the living alive. Next objective, finding out what makes them happy and how that influences ppm and ec values.
Spike_KCanG
