Poppacrunk
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Am I allowed to add synthetic nutrition to my plants as I have organic soil and read somewhere that kills everything the plant needs from the soil?
Can I add nutes to organic soil?
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Nugs1
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Yes you can but it literally defeats the purpose of having organic soil.
There are organic nutes you can add if you need to fix something.
The salt content of the synth nutes will kill the micro bacteria that is in the organic soil.
Poppacrunk
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So I don't need to add all these bloom or grow I see all over? My soil technically has it already?
Nugs1
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Should already have at least most of what it needs. But depending on where you got it or if you made it on your own. If your a new grower you should have started with regular soil and the synth nutes, it take a lot of guess work out of it.
Take a look at some of the organic threads through here. Also google is your friend.
Take a look at some of the organic threads through here. Also google is your friend.
Organic Altruism
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Even a great organic potting mix will not have everything it needs for the full life cycle of a cannabis plant right out of the bag. They will start out pretty, but will slowly begin to under-preform. You will want to add some level of dry fertilizer to your mix and even add layers of compost on top once or twice if you can.
drsaltzman
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What kind of soil?
I'm assuming it's premix.
It will last a while but not til the end.
Keep things organic when you add nutes.
Probably don't need grow ... bloom only.
Not a huge fan of Advanced Nutrients and they are expensive but I think their Iguana Juice (bloom) is great for organic supplementing.
Olive Drab Green
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Roots Organics Master Pack or Player Pack. You should roll with that.
bakertoad
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Yeah, potting mixes are weird, everything from tree branches with a bit of nitrogen added to something a little better...but I haven't found anything organic that was great.
So - and YMMV - but I've landed the following mix(s) for soil. Works across a wide variety of vegetables - weed is less picky. Nothing shockingly new, but it's solid.
use
A) Mixed compost - combination of worm/cow/chicken composted manure.
Note: Use at least 2 composts, especially if one of them is worm castings (which is awesome with bonus humic acid and Ph fixing.. but a little N heavy)
B) peat moss or something similar
C) vermiculite (or perlite if that's what you can find)
Pick #1 or #2 recipe. #2 probably for this purpose.
#1) 30% A B and C (1:1:1)
#2) 50% A and 25% B and C (2:1:1)
Benefits - hold enough moisture but drains well if over watered. Works better than anything else I've tried for cloth pots. Works for anything you want to grow except for maybe blueberries and similar super picky plants where you'd need to add acid mix or something. This mix will not burn your plants or seedlings. It'll be a while before you need to fertilize (if ever) and the makeup of the soil let's top dressing or liquid organics hit the entire rootball when you feed
Olive Drab Green
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I top dress with dry nutrients, then use the premade organic teas/liquid nutes from Roots. Truly some of the best quality organics I’ve found. As a n00b, I used MG Nature’s Care due to accessibility, switched to Dr. Earth, then FoxFarms nutrients like Bat Guano, but when I came across roots, it was the start of a long and prosperous relationship. Particularly, I think if anything, the OregonismXL inoculant is indispensable in comparison to other inoculants.