Dr. Bugbees soilless mix.

[gromiebythc]

Dr. Buckley said the optimum mix is 50% vermiculite, and 50% marks with 40 g of dolomite lime and 10 g of gypsum added per cubic foot. When I went to mix this I wasn’t 100% sure what how much of each substrate to add in order to create one cubic foot. I got a 3 ft.³ bag of peat moss, which actually came out to approximately 46 dry quarts per cubic foot and 4 ft.³ bag of vermiculite on the other hand came out to approximate 18 1/2 dry quarts per cubic foot, so if I were to add 50% of one and 50% of another how do I know when I’m at one cubic foot if they’re both so drastically different ?

thanks

[mrgrowit]

You can eyeball the 50-50 ratio; it doesn’t need to be exact. Many people will use a 7-gallon grow pot to help identify 1 cubic foot.
1 cubic foot = 6.43 dry gallons (link to source)

So 1 cubic foot should fit in a 7-gal container.

Hope this helps.

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