to me this is what puts you on the list of advanced growers. after enough years we can always satisfy everyone else , but when your advanced its VERY hard to satisfy US.
i am on the same hunt you are on , an been on that hunt for quite sometime now. i have found everything i want all spread out into different species , but never all in the same species.... so im on a species/food combo hunt too. (i would never replace my ingredients , only the amount of them) i am stuck firm on true organic feeding. bone, blood, poop, and black gold (compost/worm shit).
I am by far, "against" chems because when the wonderful organic world aint quick enough i use them myself. (even MG
...yes . mg)
i can always get the size and health where i want it just by doing hydro/chems instead of dirt an good food, but hydro is against my religion for lack of taste.
on the other hand i can usually get the taste an potency outta dirt and poop , but then i lack health an size. (in my opinion, it takes a year or two to get your dirt tuned into a new species , so thats most of the reason for lack of health an size)
so here i am , still searching.
a few years ago , i gave up two of the golden species because health was bad , an they was gettin OLD, so i figured i could just order one of the thousands of species out there to replace them....... FUCK that was a bad idea. i have ran through 10 or 15 species just to try an get back half of what i threw away.
fuck that was stupid
. sometimes the internet will drag you away from real life.... hmmm , new sig.
when you get one you like , hold on to it with everything you have until you know you found a better one.
soil
thanks man haha... i dont think im an advanced grower at all tho... im just consistently failing upwards
i can honestly say i have a couple i like... they are good, but not amazing... i know for a fact what i want, is around me somewhere... ive had it before! weed so good 1 joint between a couple buddys and you were seriously flying.... drunk like high.. just amazing.
this is the mix i made up for my organic soil for my next round... what do you think?
2x 0.3cuft/9L Bags Peralite
2x 3.8cuft/107L bales of #4 Sunshine mix
4x 1.5cuft/40L bags of Ocean Plus Earth Organic Soil Conditioner (Fish Compost, Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss, Canadian Peat Soil, Premium Aged Organic Compost, Sea Kelp)
1x 1cuft/30L bag of worm castings
~5lbs Blood Meal (12-0-0)
~5lbs Bat Guano (2-17-0)
~5lbs Bone Meal (2-14-0)
~5lbs Green Sand (0-0-7)
~5lbs GH Rare Earth (60% Pyrophyllitic Clay 40% Leonardite)
1cup Dolomite Lime
1cup Epson Salt
1cup GH Subculture-M (33% Kelp Meal derived from Ascophyllum nodosum, 39% Humic acids derived from Leonardite, Glomus intraradices, G. mosseae, G. aggregatum,G. etunicatum, G. deserticola, G. brasilianumm, G. monosporum, G. clarum, Gigaspora margarita, Rhizopogon villosullus, R. luteolus, R. amylopogon, R. fulvigleba, Pisolithus tinctorius, Scleroderma citrinum, S. cepa, Laccaria laccata, L. bicolor, Suillus punctatapies, S. granulatus, Trichoderma harzianum, T. konigii, Bacillus pumilis, B. megaterium, Bacillus subtilis, B. licheniformis, B. amyloliquefaciens)
1cup GH Subculture-B (Bacillus subtilis, B. licheniformis, B. megaterium, B. pumulis, Paenibacillus polymyxa, Streptomyces lydicus ,S. griseus ,Pseudomonas fluorescence ,Trichoderma harzianum )