How to have a perfect indoor organic soil grow...every time.

Chazz2020

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Hey just have a quick question when I watered my plant Monday runoff ph was 6.4 and ppm was 757 so today was water day and I measured my ppm and ph runoff today was 5.9 ph and ppm was 556. Do you think I just introduce some tiger bloom at a weak strength. Don’t u think my ppms should be a little higher now since I switched to flower
 

MajorCoco

Well-Known Member
Hey just have a quick question when I watered my plant Monday runoff ph was 6.4 and ppm was 757 so today was water day and I measured my ppm and ph runoff today was 5.9 ph and ppm was 556. Do you think I just introduce some tiger bloom at a weak strength. Don’t u think my ppms should be a little higher now since I switched to flower
I think your plant will tell you if it's struggling, but by all means add nutes. Just remember that it's always easier to add nutes after you see a deficiency than it is to fix overfeeding.
 

bigunyun

Well-Known Member
It's been a while since I posted on this forum, and it's funny how a lot of the posts I'm seeing as I'm looking around are talking about some of the same old things...the same old problems. I used to have a lot of the same issues too when I started out...

So...I wanted to share with everyone my "secret to success" with soil grows. Guaranteed great results every time, or your money back!! :) depending on you maintaining suitable lighting, ventilation, humidity, watering regime and temperature conditions. Results may vary .

1. You need a big enough container for your plant to thrive through-out the flowering period!!!! I think this is the single biggest mistake you can make with a soil grow. Not using a big enough container. If you want guaranteed results use something like a smartpot (fabric pots) as your "last container" and make it a big one. My 5 ft plant will need nothing but water until harvest, and is in a fabric container which is 35cm wide and 25cm deep (that's the soil depth).
2. Use any basic potting compost as the base (levingtons works well), mixed with worm-castings which you can easily buy online now (use around a 75:25 to 85:15 ratio depending on how potent the wormcastings are). Add 5% perlite if your soil feels heavy....but most peat substitute these days should drain pretty well without it. Never use garden soil unless it's good sandy loam...and you know what loam is :)
3. You don't need anything else.....as long as the wormcasting is good quality it will provide everything your ladies need from veg right through to harvest.
4. Don't over-water....ever!! Lift the pot to feel the weight when she's small, and don't water until she's basically parched but not wilting! Always start in a small pot but move up to a bigger pot soon (within ~2-5 days) after you need to start watering her every day.

That's basically it. The only time my soil grows have ever really failed or had problems in the past is when I was using containers that (in hindsight) just weren't big enough. I have used the same basic soil mix mentioned above in every soil grow I've done. So only the size of the containers has changed and suddenly my problems with weird coloured leaf spots and "nitrogen deficiency that somehow still looks like nute burn" have vanished!!

When I first started growing with soil I found myself adding all sort of stuff later in the grow to try to "fix"plants that were showing symptoms of a variety of problems, which invariably ended up making things worse. The singular thing I found I needed to stops those problems happening completely was to change to using significantly bigger containers, even if that means re-potting 2 or 3 weeks into flowering.

Now I only ever feed my girls with pure water. No nutes, no kelp and seaweed, no bonemeal, no guano, no blood and fish guts :roll:, no flushing, no nonsense....just water (filtered to take a little of the limescale hardness out, but even that isn't really necessary) combined with the naturally good stuff already in the wormcastings.

If you start seeing the any yellowing of lower leaves too early in flowering then just top-dress with a few more good handfuls of wormcastings, and water it in. Nothing else required. Here's my latest soil grown lady. The leaves closest to the light have been suffering with the heat recently, but she's still looking basically perfect. I'll try and add a wider shot later...the light is off right now.
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great info and nice looking plant thank you!
 

Newgrow31

Active Member
Alright mate sorry to bother you but wanted to ask you a quick question
I'm on day 5 of flower with an unknown strain think it's a haze I'm in 20l pots with bio bizz all mix feeding biobizz bloom watering when dry to 1.5inch
They seem to have stalled when I expected them to grow faster(streach) after seeing your thread about soil only with worm casings adns big pots got me thinking. I have some 40l pots would it affect them positively or negatively If I was to repot to the bigger pots with a decent soil perlite and worm casings mix,
Thanks and sorry to pester 1st photo grow
 

MajorCoco

Well-Known Member
Alright mate sorry to bother you but wanted to ask you a quick question
I'm on day 5 of flower with an unknown strain think it's a haze I'm in 20l pots with bio bizz all mix feeding biobizz bloom watering when dry to 1.5inch
They seem to have stalled when I expected them to grow faster(streach) after seeing your thread about soil only with worm casings adns big pots got me thinking. I have some 40l pots would it affect them positively or negatively If I was to repot to the bigger pots with a decent soil perlite and worm casings mix,
Thanks and sorry to pester 1st photo grow
Some strains take longer to start stretching than others. The stretch generally also lasts around 4 weeks-ish...so it isn't like a sudden burst you'd use to say your plants had "stalled".

It just takes time for the hormones to build, and she's usually pretty quiet during that window,
 

Newgrow31

Active Member
Thanks mate is it really that simple tho
Dirt and worm shit from start to finish nothing elce?????????

How beneficial would it be for me to ditch the bio bizz bloom I'm currently using and just top dress with casings I'm using bio bizz all mix
 

PadawanWarrior

Well-Known Member
It's been a while since I posted on this forum, and it's funny how a lot of the posts I'm seeing as I'm looking around are talking about some of the same old things...the same old problems. I used to have a lot of the same issues too when I started out...

So...I wanted to share with everyone my "secret to success" with soil grows. Guaranteed great results every time, or your money back!! :) depending on you maintaining suitable lighting, ventilation, humidity, watering regime and temperature conditions. Results may vary .

1. You need a big enough container for your plant to thrive through-out the flowering period!!!! I think this is the single biggest mistake you can make with a soil grow. Not using a big enough container. If you want guaranteed results use something like a smartpot (fabric pots) as your "last container" and make it a big one. My 5 ft plant will need nothing but water until harvest, and is in a fabric container which is 35cm wide and 25cm deep (that's the soil depth).
2. Use any basic potting compost as the base (levingtons works well), mixed with worm-castings which you can easily buy online now (use around a 75:25 to 85:15 ratio depending on how potent the wormcastings are). Add 5% perlite if your soil feels heavy....but most peat substitute these days should drain pretty well without it. Never use garden soil unless it's good sandy loam...and you know what loam is :)
3. You don't need anything else.....as long as the wormcasting is good quality it will provide everything your ladies need from veg right through to harvest.
4. Don't over-water....ever!! Lift the pot to feel the weight when she's small, and don't water until she's basically parched but not wilting! Always start in a small pot but move up to a bigger pot soon (within ~2-5 days) after you need to start watering her every day.

That's basically it. The only time my soil grows have ever really failed or had problems in the past is when I was using containers that (in hindsight) just weren't big enough. I have used the same basic soil mix mentioned above in every soil grow I've done. So only the size of the containers has changed and suddenly my problems with weird coloured leaf spots and "nitrogen deficiency that somehow still looks like nute burn" have vanished!!

When I first started growing with soil I found myself adding all sort of stuff later in the grow to try to "fix"plants that were showing symptoms of a variety of problems, which invariably ended up making things worse. The singular thing I found I needed to stops those problems happening completely was to change to using significantly bigger containers, even if that means re-potting 2 or 3 weeks into flowering.

Now I only ever feed my girls with pure water. No nutes, no kelp and seaweed, no bonemeal, no guano, no blood and fish guts :roll:, no flushing, no nonsense....just water (filtered to take a little of the limescale hardness out, but even that isn't really necessary) combined with the naturally good stuff already in the wormcastings.

If you start seeing the any yellowing of lower leaves too early in flowering then just top-dress with a few more good handfuls of wormcastings, and water it in. Nothing else required. Here's my latest soil grown lady. The leaves closest to the light have been suffering with the heat recently, but she's still looking basically perfect. I'll try and add a wider shot later...the light is off right now.
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Am I supposed to see in the dark? I'm not a cat.
 
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