Organic Workshop: Making Italian Style High Brix Soil

Sometimes you're running low on soil, and if you don't use store-bought one like me, then you have to put out some moves, and start making it yourself if you really want to flower these gals. Fortunately I have a plenty of it just lying around, and waiting to be used. However, it needs to be corrected nonetheless, so I've done it #LOS and #HighBrix style 🐛 🌷 🍃

First thing I've done is I dug up some soil - it's a typical NorItal loam built of calcareous marl and organic matter, which is abundant in my area - from the meadow at front of my house, where I always see stinging nettles growing in bunches. And cause cannabis and stinging nettle like similar soil, you really can't go wrong here. So I tossed it in the bucket and brought it to my garden, where I worked it farther.

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Then I sieved it a little bit to get rid of stones and roots.

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After it was sifted, it looked like that.

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Some earthworms got inside too.

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Then it was biochar time, which I just collected from my garden as it's everywhere due to winter heating activities. You don't need a lot of it, 3-5% of total weight or even less will do.

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After that I had to add calcium carbonate to raise base saturation, and I used powdered eggshells for that.

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Then it was volcanic rock time! I powdered a handful of it using a piece of Brazilian marble, cause you have to roll with style 😎

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In the end I just needed a touch of fresh compost to add humic acid, nitrogen, fungi and bacteria, so I filled a pot, and added it to the mix.

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And now it has to cook for a few weeks while I need to get two more ingredients to have it just PERFECT when the time comes 🌋🌋🌋

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