When attempting living soil in smaller containers, replenishing soil nutrients & refreshing biology often is an absolute necessity to keep root expansion & activity from stagnation. I top dress heavily every three weeks.
Total Tent Entry Time-40 min
Cover crop chop & dropped then integrated into existing straw mulch.
Top dress of 2 cups worm castings, 1 cup Build a Flower, 1/2 cup Craft Blend, 1/4 cup Kashi Gold, 2 tbsp Ocean Blend, 2 tbsp Kiss My Frass, blended together & mixed into mulch/cover crop layer.
6 cups of reclaimed & re-ammended soil, with fresh nematodes mixed in, used to cover mulch/cover crop/top dress layer of each pot.
Hand watered each container with 1/2 gallon plain 6.5 ph/11 ppm reservoir water, mixed with 1/2 tbsp each of Azos, coconut water powder, & quillaja saponaria extract powder.
Finally, added a 3/4 inch layer of fresh straw mulch that has been chopped to 1 inch lengths, & soaked in 3/4 gallons reservoir water mixed with 1/2 tsp each of coconut water powder, quillaja, & 1/4 tsp Recharge, giving me Azos at the root zone & recharge at the mulch level while keeping them apart.
DLI raised to 31
VPD raised to 0.90-0.95 kPa
Worm activity high in both containers & even saw some juveniles in the cap layer.
Expression #1
Height-5"
Width-14"×13"
-Week Prior-
Height-3 3/4"
Width-4"
Expression #2
Height-6.5"
Width-12"×11"
-Week Prior-
Height-6"
Width-4"
Week Total Entry Time-41 min