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@PhunkyPhallus, Sorry for the late reply. My soil base is 1/2 Happy Frog, 1/2 Ocean forest, mixed with worm castings, rice hulls, and seaweed compost. I moved away from Promix when I started the Earthboxes because I wanted to maximize the microbiology. This is actually my first grow without the mulch cover, they work great though and you get nice mycelium growth if you put Bokashi and ground barley on top of your top dress nutes. Things tend to break down pretty quickly under the mulch cover since it's always dark and worms/fungi love that. I have a 1 inch mulch layer from chop and drop stuff on my current grow. A bit late posting it actually=/ Everything I learned about Earthboxes came from the BuildaSoil 10*10 grow series. I learned soil microbiology from several books and vids, mostly Dr Elaine Ingam

Hope you got big bud dude. good luck.

@PhunkyPhallus, My new grow which hasn't been posted yet has a lot of different cover crops. Yarrow, basil, red/white clover, nettles and borage. Yarrow and nettles are for allelopathy, clover is for nitrogen fixing, and the others are for chop n' drop mulch. My previous Earthbox grows just used the mulch covers. My soil is full of red wigglers, soil mites and springtails. I try to mimic nature as much as possible and use a microscope to check soil microbiology a few times every grow. This will be my third grow in the same soil, but I'm probably going to have to change it out after 4 or 5 as the worm castings start taking over and you end up with what is basically a worm bin after awhile.

@PhunkyPhallus, I would def check out the grow series on the BuildASoil youtube channel, it's where I learned to grow organics in Earthboxes. This one was a first run in the soil, even mix of Ocean Forest and Happy Frog from Fox Farm. All feedings were top dressed by just spreading them on the soil and watering them in with additional nutes (First week in the journal shows what I fed them). I have since adjusted my feedings to what is essentially a Coots mix (look up Clackamas Coot), but its still just evenly spread across the topsoil. Roots will get down to the reservoir and you'll know it when the larger plants start drinking a gallon a day. Roots were starting to come up to the top soil to feed (which is what you want for a top dress) there's a pic in week 10. Since I'm doing no-till, I can't dig around and check roots and there's no way to actually see them unless you saw a hole near the water runoff slot. A project for the future. 2nd run in the same soil just finished, you can look up my diaries for Grandmommy Purple and Aurora indica. I fed them a lot less often as an experiment and the plants turned out well. Jeremy from BAS mentioned that he found plants can become entirely dependent on the extra oxygen from air stones, and if those happen to fail at any point, the plant can actually die or go into shock. I chose not to use them.

@XII_XII_EarlyRaver, Thanks much🙏

Looking good bro really nice 👌💪

@PhunkyPhallus, Not yet, but I've seen it done on BuildaSoil's grow series. Seems to work pretty well if you grow the same genetics.

looking beautiful good job my friend