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ADelmanto

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This is how I make potting soil:

Pick up 1 yard of potting soil from local wholesale nursery ( pine bark mulch, peat moss, perlite)

Add extra bag of perlite (4 cu ft I think)

Pick up 1 yard of organic top soil from second place. (Mostly compost mixed with native soil)

Mix in 25% partly decomposed pine bark fines (left over from a pallet I ordered 2 years ago)

Yield 2.5 yards : cost approx $200.00

I up potted from 3 to 10 gallon about 40 pots and potted to 3 gallon another 30 starters.

Pictured are about 180 pots with more to come. Hopefully I have enough soil.

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Well i have to say that is a very impressive yield of soil and figs. Like how all your pots match too
Are you a nursery or just a figger ?
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Thanks, Just a figger. I am a landscaper so I have almost unlimited access to any pots I need.
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Very nice job!
Is the sprinkler how you water the figs?
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Yes, I have 3 heads watering 45 min every other day. I wanted to do drip this year but the heads were so much easier.
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Good job.
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Aaron, you are hardcore! any updates on the unknowns you passed along? It would be great if you have a chance to visit the mother plants to see and document (and taste) the fruit.
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Aaron - nice setup. I still owe you for all the pots :)
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Nice work. So you mix the soil in the back of your truck? Not a bad idea.
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Actually I just shovel it into a wheelbarrow. When I dump it out it gets mixed up enough. Just a little more hand mixing as i fill the pots.
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Aaron, you are hardcore! any updates on the unknowns you passed along? It would be great if you have a chance to visit the mother plants to see and document (and taste) the fruit.


No, I have not been back to see any of them.
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I use Rubbermaid totes to dump soil components into... even when I've had access to a truck, I'd line the bed with them.  It minimizes the amount of shoveling I need to do when I get the stuff home.
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