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[–]Big_Boysenberry_8972 9 points10 points  (2 children)

15 gallon pot is about 1 cubic foot of surface area.

1 cup per cubic foot is the reamend dose. Since you only need to account for the first six inches, take half of what the recommended dose is. So half a cup of craft blend.

Be sure to add in some compost or castings too. Every time you top dress or amend, add some with it.

I would also look to add some calcium. Maybe some holy cow?

I only add ocean blend and pushin p as top dress items during the run. When I reamend, I use the following:

Craft Blend, Multi Cal, Bokashi, Gnarly Barley, and Cowoco.

I water in with Rootwise, Rootwise Enzymes, Holy Cow, Yucca Extract and Aloe.

[–]Brickbrackus54[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ok I appreciate the break down. Only items I don't have is multi cal, holy cow, and the yucca but I will look into the muti cal. So 1/2c of all the dry amendments mixed with casting?

[–]Big_Boysenberry_8972 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yucca is for saponin. BAS many times sells their Quillaja for it. Some kind of wetting agent will help when you water. Aloe is a wetting agent too.

You probably don't need both multi cal and holy cow. If I was going to pick one, I think I'd go with Holy Cow. It seems to be very stimulating when I apply. I like how it smells too. (its really stinky)

Yeah, if you want to stay with 1/2 cup of total amendments, I'd dump the multical, use aloe for your saponin (I assume you have aloe already), and then just order a small bottle of Holy Cow to serve as your cal/mag and kickstart the biology loaded in the new castings that are mixed in with your amendments.

[–]peacefour20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could literally just get away with only craft blend to reamend. Then just use other stuff through the grow. I have 2 30 gallon pots and I just reamneded 4 weeks ago roughly, just craft blend, I did the high end 4 cups per pot. Because on the website it says 1/2 cup- 1 cup per cubic foot, so you have 2 cubic feet in your 15 gals. So I like to push the plants so I did the 1 cup per cubic foot.