I have been running the same strain for about two years and what really pushed me over the newb hump was listening to GreaseMonkey and I started composting. I got an extra half pound from a single 1000w and the smoke was better in every way. I was using espoma products then I switched to using "build-a-soil" with 1/3's, but the full compost is what I am doing from now on!
That's what mine is. Compost and espoma. No soil here and the plants are huge. Good job!
whats that ? i googled it but i just got a plant food.
Espoma plant food is what I was getting off of. If you are interested in composting, you can just add your amendments into it. I was using "down to earth" products after I got off of Espoma... This will get you really damn close. I think that I mostly had to add rock powder like basalt and soft rock phosphate... It would be best to source the ingredients individually so that you know exactly how much of everything being used, but that can be a hassel at first and I used this to get by until I had a better understanding. This stuff is much better than Espoma and super soil, I used Espoma because it was close to TGA's recipe, but I found full compost to work best. That and subbing blood/bone meal with fish/fish bone meal.
I would stand by "down to earth's" Bio-live because I have used both products. Really, there wasnt a big difference in price or yeild but GreaseMonkey has me watching out for bone meal because of "Mad-Cow" disease and blood meal because it gets acidic and causes PH swings. I am not trying to argue or anything, just stating my reasons.
I use their garden lime.
Here is some Wiki for you... Pay attention to the 2nd paragraph
I missed this comment earlier! Cool, I didnt know that you composted!!! There are plenty of old heads on here still using Espoma, I think that the compost part is the more important factor here, not amendments...
... espoma makes a whole line of different organics from premixed dry nutes to just bone meals or chicken manures to you name it. I used the biotone starter plus with added granulated chicken manure. But it has a little bit of everything along with added bacteria and fungus. I added those with some ff happy frog bulb food and other then the fact I give them teas and ej bloom (prob don't have to) they have stayed pretty right on target except for the floods ... I added extra n then. It's not THE BEST but it's pretty good stuff for the money.
I'm using cow manure for the first time in my personal garden right now. I did a test this spring with my tomatoes outside and it went well so now I'm doing it with my medical garden indoors. Im doing a mix of my recycled soil (which was peat moss/compost/perlite), my first round of homemade compost, homemade worm castings, and cow manure. For amendments I just added Oyster Shell Flour for extra calcium (makes for stronger stalks!) and as a ph buffer. Along with granular humic acid (for chelation of nutrients, better nutrient uptake).Btw guys... I added the nutes because I'm using composted manure only. It's not enough on its own to give healthy plants and yields. At least cow manure is running about a .5/.5/.5 . This yr amending the manure I am growing the biggest plants I have ever had with stocks bigger then a wine bottle.
I would love to make my own compost one day and mix into the manure but for now til I own my own property espoma is going to have to do.
That is in my Roots Uprising trio.
I don't get what you're saying. I don't use it for anything but Cal-Mag. Or I used to. Now I have Elemental.
Your Going to have some awesome happy plants!
