Soil growing

[GanjaRastaMan]

I don't know where to start. What brand of soil, what nutrients would you recommend?

If i go the route of using worm castings, bat guano, etc would I even need fertilizers or other nutrients of any kind?

I'm so confused.

 

[LorDeMO]

I know, it's all confusing but ya gotta find your own way. It's confusing cos people have different methods and there is no definitive route to take. I use a mixture of regular £1.99 multi-purpose compost, perlite and virmiculite and I am currently using MG nutes for veg. I'm having great results so far and am about 2 weeks from starting flowering. Do the best you can with what you have!

 

[johnnytsmitw]

I would suggest looking through soem grow journals until you find an end product you like, then work backwards and see what they did. I use organic MG soil and fox farms nutes. You have to be careful with MG soil though its easy to over do it.

 

[JoeCa1i]

cheapest mix would be MG potting mix,perlite,and gardenlime,with liquid nutes.You can check out subcools mix,on here.Not as cheap as the MG mix,but should get great results.

 

[GanjaRastaMan]

I'm thinking of using the MG organic soil, with Fox Farm liquid nutes (i've heard it's good a while ago). Which Fox Farm liquid nutes are you using? I can't walk into the garden store and tell them my story lol.

 

[kappainf]

I have found that using highly nutritive soils like fox farm makes it difficult to properly add supplemental ferts. Many people have succes going that route and I have as well. However, I recently switched over to non nutritive soil mixes, I make my own. I get a 3.8 cubic foot bag of organic peat moss for ten bucks and a big bag of perlite for like ten bucks and mix it up. I may try adding vermiculite to the mix as well in the future. I like my new mix and I believe it will be easier to dial in my feeding schedules. Good luck and let us know what you choose and how it works for you.

 

[blaze1camp]

i use FFOF soil with General Organic line up...works great for me with no complants i add worm casting to the mix and perlite...

 

[LorDeMO]

I'm thinking of using the MG organic soil, with Fox Farm liquid nutes (i've heard it's good a while ago). Which Fox Farm liquid nutes are you using? I can't walk into the garden store and tell them my story lol.

I use MG nutes but I wouldn't use MG soil, it releases nutrients at a diff rate than what MJ needs plus over-watering becomes a problem. You sound like you don't wanna make things too difficult, I say use compost, perlite n virmiculite n search for some nutes that appeal to you and have been known to work - easy peasy.

 

[GanjaRastaMan]

I use MG nutes but I wouldn't use MG soil, it releases nutrients at a diff rate than what MJ needs plus over-watering becomes a problem. You sound like you don't wanna make things too difficult, I say use compost, perlite n virmiculite n search for some nutes that appeal to you and have been known to work - easy peasy.

Exactly, I want to keep it simple, it's my first grow. I'm thinnking of using General Organics: Bio Grow and Bio Bloom.

Take a look at the pics, would those be correct for vegging and flowering?

 

[LorDeMO]

If that's what you wanna use then go for it, although check that they can work as I have only used MG. When you do buy nutes start it off at 1/4 strength and increase each week. Atm, I'm using 1/4 strength MG and everything is going fine - will go to 1/2 next week and so on.

Don't think too much on it as most nutes will work, get something with high N for veg and high high p for flower. You will only need to start using nutes come week 2/3. before that the plant with use all the goodness of plain ol' soil + water.

 

[ayanami]

fox farms ocean forest is great soil! Their nutes are great too! (I like their liquid trio: grow big, tiger bloom, and big bloom) I mean they are kinda pricey, but its nothing but the best for my babies!

I hear all the time that mg sucks, though I've never used it personally.

 

[GanjaRastaMan]

fox farms ocean forest is great soil! Their nutes are great too! (I like their liquid trio: grow big, tiger bloom, and big bloom) I mean they are kinda pricey, but its nothing but the best for my babies!

I hear all the time that mg sucks, though I've never used it personally.

I already decided not to use Miracle Grow, definitely not, I've heard bad things about it too.

I'm thinking general organics or fox farms nutes.

 

[ayanami]

oh ya if you wanna go straight up organic I'm sure general organics would be great! You probably no that ff grow big and tiger bloom are not organic. Big bloom is 100% though, and I've heard of folks using it as their sole bloom nutrients with great results.

Still though if I was going organic I'd get some lama manure, sheep manure, and chicken manure; If I'm not mistaken you can make a nice veg nute tea with the chicken and sheep and a flower tea with lama and sheep (I might have these jumbled a bit, my memory's kinda fuzzy). This stuff together with some Big Bloom, which is chock-full of bat guano and worm castings, and of course some ffof soil, would make for some great organic growing!