What do you guys think of fox farm's soil mixes?

[jonnynobody]

I'm getting ready to buy my potting soil for my tent grow and I was thinking of going with foxfarm's light warrior for the potting mix and then transplanting to some ocean forest for the remainder of the grow after 4 weeks or so.

My question is should I still give nutrients while the plants are in the light warrior or should I just wait to add until I transplant them to the ocean forest? I've never used soil before so I'm trying to keep things as simple as I can so there's less possibility of me screwing something up =]

btw, am I going to be bringing bugs into my home with these soil mixes?

 

[bowlfullofbliss]

I'll be watching info on this myself, gonna try some dirt farming soon.

 

[stumpjumper]

Light warior for your seedling then transplant into a mix of OF and HF whenbyou have your 3rd set of lleaves. There is no need to feed for the first 4 weeks but a supplement of silica and carbs is a good thing.

 

[kindfarms420]

i would go for the Happy Frog soil over the Ocean Forest ive used both in my time and HF is alot better in my opinion it isnt "hot" like OF i just used straight HF from seed to harvest no light warrior i started to use nutes 3.5 -4 weeks after planting/transplanting

 

[stumpjumper]

Nah, I've done the straight HF and it doesn't quite cut it. It works ok but You have to have some OF in the mix. Actually more OF than HF. 2-1 plus perlite and Dolomite Lime.. My plants are as happy as can be right now. They usually remain that way throughout too.

I like Fox Farms soil a lot, other than the fungus gnats. It's all I use and don't have any plans on switching.

 

[Medical420MI]

I used straight happy frog this grow but I too like using a mix of HP, OF and perlite.

 

[Huel Perkins]

I'm not really a soil grower but I do use Happy Frog for my mother plants. Its good quality, never burned any of my strains including seedlings but it does tend to run out of nutes fast.

 

[kindfarms420]

well ya if your looking for a soil that will last longer the OF will last longer on nutes but if your like me i only use the i like to have them run out a bit quicker so that i can start feeding with my tea recipes this way I KNOW exactly how much of everything my plants is getting with in fresh soil that YOU didnt make yourself you have no idea the amounts of each nutrient in the soil so i like to get the plant off to a nice easy start then complicate things a lil not too much tho.... LESS IS MORE WHEN IT COMES TO NUTRIENTS

 

[CashCrops]

I have used them very successfully. I give the seedlings or clones Dyna-Gro kln + Molasses and then when I transplant into the blue bag Ocean forest I start vegging nutes.

 

[mammothgrower]

Basically what everyone else said. I liked mixing 2 bags of ocean forest to one bag of light warrior and add dolomite. That seemed perfect. I could feed compost teas if I needed any extra to get to thru till the end. I was never a fan of happy frog as I feel it stayed to wet for me. Myplants got somewhat wilted because they couldn't dry out fast enough.

 

[kindfarms420]

Basically what everyone else said. I liked mixing 2 bags of ocean forest to one bag of light warrior and add dolomite. That seemed perfect. I could feed compost teas if I needed any extra to get to thru till the end. I was never a fan of happy frog as I feel it stayed to wet for me. Myplants got somewhat wilted because they couldn't dry out fast enough.

the happy frog is supposed to be fluffier than the OF ( meaning more drainage and more drainage = less water holding capacity) if it was to wet you watered it too much

 

[jonnynobody]

the happy frog is supposed to be fluffier than the OF ( meaning more drainage and more drainage = less water holding capacity) if it was to wet you watered it too much

It seems like a nice mix of light warrior, ocean forest, and a bit of perlite is a good mix. I can't wait till I get some good experience so down the road I can become the mad scientist of organic growing

I like hydro ok but it's just so goddamn unnatural...to me, hydro seems like too many variables to deal with and special equipment that ya just don't deal with in dirt. I think the closest I'd ever come to a hydro grow would be something passive like a hempy bucket...I don't get down with all the air stones and recirculating pumps....blahhh too much shit to put on jonny's already taxed mind

 

[CSI Stickyicky]

FFOF is hit or miss. Sometimes you get a bag that just isn't right. (usually coming from their east coast plant, not the west coast plant.) I always felt the need to add extra perlite, too, or it tended to clump up after a few weeks.

I have tried mixing one bag of happy frog and one bag of ocean forest, and that worked really well.

I also tried mixing 2 parts sunshine #4 with 1 part ocean forest, and i added some Jamaican guano, and that was my favorite mix so far, until i tried switching to roots organic.

Roots organic is the way to go if you shop sells it. It works really well if you mix some high-phosphorus bat guano into the bottom of your flowering container.

I plan to do a "grow off" between Ocean Forest, Happy Frog, Roots, and Miracle Gro, just to see how each one does.

 

[slipstar059]

I got fungus gnats from FF, and root Aphids from roots organic, I wroth both companies, and while RO denied it was their issue, FF offered me some new bags, and wanted a tracking # off the bag, so they could find out which distributor it came from, and track down where it was made. Not advertising for FF, but I always thought there was something wrong with people using the soils, and not the soil companies, I was proved wrong, but at the same time, found out who cares about the issue.

 

[stumpjumper]

Ocean Forest ALWAYS has gnats.. Around here anyways.

 

[kindfarms420]

havent had gnat issues with the happy frog although im sure somebody has gotten gnats in it... most commercial soil companies have bugs in there soil

 

[drolove]

have been using fox farms ocean forest for a little while with success and would recommend it all the way through the grow.

 

[Amateur.Grower]

I agree with the other posters, if you aren't mixing your own soil, Fox Farm is the way to go. Used them when I first started growing and it treated me well. I still use their soil with solid results. I was happy to read about Fox Farm taking care of the soil issue for Slipstar. I always want to give my business to companies that care about their customers, glad FF does.

 

[Cory and trevor]

Doesn't anyone go to Lowes and mix up soil themselves anymore? is it just me out here? I mix my shit like I have since 02'; 4 parts tops soil (organic 98 cents for 40 lbs) with 1 part each perlite vermiculite and peat moss. Toss in some sweet stuff (my proprietary blend of poops and amendments) and some myco, mix and it's good to go. I think I figured it out once to be about 2 bucks for 40 lbs of mixed soil and 99% of the time no bugs. a few times I did get them little flea looking thingys from the peat but they didn't hurt nothing that I could notice. I can't bring my self to buy the dirt, though I do use the full line of FF nutes at a tiny fraction of their recomended mix it's good stuff.

 

[stumpjumper]

Doesn't anyone go to Lowes and mix up soil themselves anymore? is it just me out here? I mix my shit like I have since 02'; 4 parts tops soil (organic 98 cents for 40 lbs) with 1 part each perlite vermiculite and peat moss. Toss in some sweet stuff (my proprietary blend of poops and amendments) and some myco, mix and it's good to go. I think I figured it out once to be about 2 bucks for 40 lbs of mixed soil and 99% of the time no bugs. a few times I did get them little flea looking thingys from the peat but they didn't hurt nothing that I could notice. I can't bring my self to buy the dirt, though I do use the full line of FF nutes at a tiny fraction of their recomended mix it's good stuff.

Fuck all that noise lol.. No I would mix my own if I had a place to do it. I don't have the space or privacy to do that though. I'm 110% satisfied with FoxFarm soil and I try to buy it on sale.