NightSpider
Active Member
I am on my second grow. In both grows, I used plagron and biobizz packaged soil since I have not yet gotten to making my own soil since I grow in a clandestine tent grow in an apartment for myself since cannabis is illegal here and I have no garden.
I fed with general organics liquid organic fertilizers and both in the first grow and now, I am facing multiple types of deficiencies, pink leaves, brown crumbly leaves, sand colored crumbly leaves, yellowing, all kinds of fuckery. I ph every feeding but since I do not know very much about soil life and what affects ph, I cannot fix this problem.
I have been feeding phd plain water for a while now since the soil was filled with enough nutrients for 6 weeks. The problems still persist. The plants are in fabric pots and I am soon going to transplant into 10 gallon bigger final pots.
I will fill the rest with the same soil, but this time I will water it with phd water before planting until the runoff is 6.5. Is that advisable?
The root ball is nearly all over the current pots, so the added soil will be on the sides of the pot. I thought maybe I should buy some compost and mix it in with the soil I am going to add but since it wont be added to the current rootball, will it do any good?
Other than that, I thought maybe some compost or worm casting top dressings (? is that even a thing) and teas would help inoculate the soil and fi the ph balance a bit. I guess I will have to not feed with liquid organic nutes since it will kill the bacterial life, is that correct?
If I am not going to feed, I must introduce some nutrients for the soil life to break down and give the plant, hence the idea to add compost or ewc to the top and hoping it will make its way into soiğl with waterings?
My 4 pots are in a tent under a led light, and I read the biggest soil life is at the surface but whenever I water, the surface dries really fast while it takes a while for the lower layers to dry so I have to wait to water again. Dry surface = bad for soil life, so should I put some kind of mulch? I am worried about introducing pests, so what material would be ideal?
For making tea to inoculate soil, is worm castings as good enough as compost? I really am a noob to evaluate a compost I am going to buy , I dont want to buy bad compost. I would like to buy bacterially dominated full of life compost with no antibiotics or anything you know. And in my country generaolly any kind of quality standards are loose so that makes it harder to make sure what I am buying is quality compost. But I can buy worm castings from companies that produce it here. They sell bagged in stores. Lets say I am going to buy packaged, will it have soil life still after sitting in that container for a while? What other easy to find ingredients are really advised? I do not mean to make a great tea at the beginning but if some of the ingredients you list are accessible to me, I will add that to the tea. So to summarize: if I make tea with ewc and no compost, (kelp etc added maybe), will it be acceptably as good as a tea with compost also? Are packaged ewc acceptable?
Thank you
I fed with general organics liquid organic fertilizers and both in the first grow and now, I am facing multiple types of deficiencies, pink leaves, brown crumbly leaves, sand colored crumbly leaves, yellowing, all kinds of fuckery. I ph every feeding but since I do not know very much about soil life and what affects ph, I cannot fix this problem.
I have been feeding phd plain water for a while now since the soil was filled with enough nutrients for 6 weeks. The problems still persist. The plants are in fabric pots and I am soon going to transplant into 10 gallon bigger final pots.
I will fill the rest with the same soil, but this time I will water it with phd water before planting until the runoff is 6.5. Is that advisable?
The root ball is nearly all over the current pots, so the added soil will be on the sides of the pot. I thought maybe I should buy some compost and mix it in with the soil I am going to add but since it wont be added to the current rootball, will it do any good?
Other than that, I thought maybe some compost or worm casting top dressings (? is that even a thing) and teas would help inoculate the soil and fi the ph balance a bit. I guess I will have to not feed with liquid organic nutes since it will kill the bacterial life, is that correct?
If I am not going to feed, I must introduce some nutrients for the soil life to break down and give the plant, hence the idea to add compost or ewc to the top and hoping it will make its way into soiğl with waterings?
My 4 pots are in a tent under a led light, and I read the biggest soil life is at the surface but whenever I water, the surface dries really fast while it takes a while for the lower layers to dry so I have to wait to water again. Dry surface = bad for soil life, so should I put some kind of mulch? I am worried about introducing pests, so what material would be ideal?
For making tea to inoculate soil, is worm castings as good enough as compost? I really am a noob to evaluate a compost I am going to buy , I dont want to buy bad compost. I would like to buy bacterially dominated full of life compost with no antibiotics or anything you know. And in my country generaolly any kind of quality standards are loose so that makes it harder to make sure what I am buying is quality compost. But I can buy worm castings from companies that produce it here. They sell bagged in stores. Lets say I am going to buy packaged, will it have soil life still after sitting in that container for a while? What other easy to find ingredients are really advised? I do not mean to make a great tea at the beginning but if some of the ingredients you list are accessible to me, I will add that to the tea. So to summarize: if I make tea with ewc and no compost, (kelp etc added maybe), will it be acceptably as good as a tea with compost also? Are packaged ewc acceptable?
Thank you
