207 Grown
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Hey there everyone, I'm 207 and I'll be sharing my personal grow with you.
I'm a medical cannabis user and long time farmer; I love growing anything and cannabis is no exception. Right now I am refining my methods and still trying to learn as much as I can, like many of you are.
I have had some great successes and also a lot of bad, frustrating, tragic grow situations that I have learned a lot of hard lessons from. I've spent a lot on hydro and chem nutes and have taken advice from guys at the grow stores (almost always a bad idea)
After mixed results with chems and years of working against nature, I'm starting to see the light of sustainable growing. Im tired of buying soil and nutes. Tired of pH pens drying out on me and ppm getting too high/low if I don't check often. Im tired of paying $$ for distilled water that I'm just going to change out in a week or two. I'm not throwing my DWC stuff out just yet, but I am retiring it for the time being.
I have decided to go full organic indoor for the first time since 2012 and I'm pretty happy to see the AN bottles in my stock room start gathering some dust!
After months of research and trials, I have decided on a mix I like.
I'm using roots 707 as a base and have added the usually array of trace minerals and meals, dry COM fertilizer, a bit of DOLO Lime and mixed it well.
After the soil was thoroughly amended and stirred up, I watered it down and have left it to break down (cook) all of the "hot" amendments (yeah, alfalfa and guano, I'm looking at you)
On a whim, I grabbed some roots organic liquid base fertilizer, back when I only had inert soilless mix. It did a great job bringing life into my old pro mix! The sick plants that I had saved from an old grow have sprung back with full vigor.
I'm quickly seeing success and I have only started recently with the indoor organics.
Usually I save the 'stinky stuff' for outside in my big raised beds, but if I mix it outdoors and bring it in carefully, it's not so bad.
The point of this thread is to entice fellow gardeners into sharing some success stories and info about organic growing indoors. There are plenty of old threads etc etc but I wanted to have a fresh place to share with you all.
I will be posting pics occasionally but mostly interested in conversation about ratios, cook time, amendments, teas, and other organic methods that medical cultivators may wish to share.
Please stop by and leave a comment if you like. I have barely used my new RIU account!
Happy growing
I'm a medical cannabis user and long time farmer; I love growing anything and cannabis is no exception. Right now I am refining my methods and still trying to learn as much as I can, like many of you are.
I have had some great successes and also a lot of bad, frustrating, tragic grow situations that I have learned a lot of hard lessons from. I've spent a lot on hydro and chem nutes and have taken advice from guys at the grow stores (almost always a bad idea)
After mixed results with chems and years of working against nature, I'm starting to see the light of sustainable growing. Im tired of buying soil and nutes. Tired of pH pens drying out on me and ppm getting too high/low if I don't check often. Im tired of paying $$ for distilled water that I'm just going to change out in a week or two. I'm not throwing my DWC stuff out just yet, but I am retiring it for the time being.
I have decided to go full organic indoor for the first time since 2012 and I'm pretty happy to see the AN bottles in my stock room start gathering some dust!
After months of research and trials, I have decided on a mix I like.
I'm using roots 707 as a base and have added the usually array of trace minerals and meals, dry COM fertilizer, a bit of DOLO Lime and mixed it well.
After the soil was thoroughly amended and stirred up, I watered it down and have left it to break down (cook) all of the "hot" amendments (yeah, alfalfa and guano, I'm looking at you)
On a whim, I grabbed some roots organic liquid base fertilizer, back when I only had inert soilless mix. It did a great job bringing life into my old pro mix! The sick plants that I had saved from an old grow have sprung back with full vigor.
I'm quickly seeing success and I have only started recently with the indoor organics.
Usually I save the 'stinky stuff' for outside in my big raised beds, but if I mix it outdoors and bring it in carefully, it's not so bad.
The point of this thread is to entice fellow gardeners into sharing some success stories and info about organic growing indoors. There are plenty of old threads etc etc but I wanted to have a fresh place to share with you all.
I will be posting pics occasionally but mostly interested in conversation about ratios, cook time, amendments, teas, and other organic methods that medical cultivators may wish to share.
Please stop by and leave a comment if you like. I have barely used my new RIU account!
Happy growing