True Living Organics - The Ultimate Guide to Growing All-Natural Marijuana Indoors (2012)

*Amounts listed are for addition to approximately 2 gallons of moist kitchen scraps*
I don’t add all of these elements every time I feed the worms.
4 cups perlite
1–2 cups well-rinsed coconut coir fiber
1 tablespoon greensand
2 tablespoons crushed or ground oyster shell
1 tablespoon granular rock phosphate
¼ cup all organic alfalfa pellets
2 tablespoons kelp
2 tablespoons humate (humic acid ore shale)
Plenty of dried cannabis leaves, stems, and roots
2 cups shredded junk mail/paper
To a typical 2 gallons of kitchen scraps and cannabis plant matter, I would always want either some
eggshells or crushed oyster shells in the mix to bring some additional calcium and for some pH
buffering. Don’t add lime, dolomite or otherwise; these have never turned out well for me at any rate.
Make sure you use Red Wiggler worms, and make double sure you won’t get freaked out by a few
fruit flies or gnats here and there. I can tell you right now that no TLO super natural grow is going to
be bug-free. They are attracted to the pristine all natural conditions that TLO brings to the table; it
invites and enhances life. Who knew?
You may be wondering why you’ll need all the minerals. Minerals break down pretty fast when in
proximity to high levels of bioactivity from the microbial life. These minerals are ones that are hard
to make available all naturally, like phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and many micro and secondary
nutrients as well. All those are very important to your grow, especially during flowering for large
yields.
The calcium from the oyster shells is awesome, and so is the pH buffering. The coconut coir fiber
is a fairly effective pH buffer too, and the worms also seem to really love having it around. When the
coir breaks down (which it does pretty quickly in TLO) it brings decent amounts of K into
availability in the soil mix. If your earthworm food seems too wet, just add some more shredded junk
mail and dry coconut coir to it, and if it is too dry just add some chlorine/chloramine free water or
more moist kitchen scraps. The real key is to keep it somewhat moist, but never dry.