I've been known to bend'em a buck eighty lol. I bend'em early when I'm ambitious, it helps me keep them low(er) and they tie down more easily. I'm not quite aggressive early in veg as I used to be because it restricts the amount of plants I can fit in my early veg box but they're still doing what I tell them to
The soil is a pic of super soil. I took 8 bag of roots organics and added the following. Its only slightly different than subcool's recipe but its pretty much the same. Seriously considering recycling it after conditioning it and letting it sit for a month or so, haven't decided yet. It makes a shitload of dirt that's for sure. I just know there are plenty of rich nutrients left in the soil that can be re-used. Just reading up on soil organics and conditioning to prevent any kind of bad stuff I don't want. I don't have a composter so I would do it all strictly indoors and with organic additives.
50 lbs worm castings
5 lbs steamed bone meal
4 lbs flowering guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
1 cup epsom salts
1 cup powdered lime (I think?)
½ cup azomite
1 cup powdered humic/fulvic acid blend (soluble)
General Hydroponics Subcultures A & B per their recommended application
I think that's everything. I love it for a perpetual organic garden, it takes the hassle of so many different feeding schedules out of the scenario. It gets them through pretty well, I still start giving them organic flowering nutrients about 4 weeks in every other feeding - Roots Organic Buddha Bloom and a few other products that I've grown to love.