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Nov 1, 2014 9:38 PM CST

Hi,

I have got into gardening about a month ago. I looked online and created a potting mix. The mix is as follows:

1 part coconut coir
1 part cheap potting soil
couple scoops vermiculite

I then added water and my plants died a couple days after. I realized then that my plants were not being fed the nutrition that it needs. After some more research, i came up with another recipe. contents are as follows:

previous mix
1/2 part bio compost
1/2 part fungal compost
couple scoops zeolite
couple scoops humus
couple scoops vermicompost
couple scoops red mulchp
couple scoops red rocks of different sizes along with some burnt wood

After mixing this new recipe, I thought this would fix my problem. My plants started to die once again. When i examine the plants, the roots appear very see through and lost its hardness. I had a garlic bulb in a store bought potting mix which grew well. I put this garlic in the new mix with its roots very healthy. After a couple days the roots started to die.

Can anyone help me what i have to do to fix this?

thanks

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