Choosing the best soil for early stage?
- Thread starter RamboRus
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that's a good starter mix that will easily get thru veg, gives u time to read up on the next step. gettin ur larger pots prepped and ready to go in bout 6 weeks
Mr.Vega
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Super soil...tga
This would be for future use since it takes a month but how about something that's cheaper, easier and better? You can go to your local Orchard Supply,Ace Hardware, etc to get the ingredients
Soil mix:
1/3 sphagnum peat moss
1/3 perlite
1/3 organic compost (I'm organic so...) - do NOT be cheap here. This is THE single most important component of your soil. If you can get vermicompost or castings that's great but organic and preferably free range chicken manure or organic steer manure can be good too.
---You've just made your base soil!
Amendments:
To each 8 gallons of soil mix
1/2 cup blood meal
1/2 cup bone meal
1 cup kelp meal
1/2 cup dolomitic lime
This mix of base soil with amendments will need to be "cooked"...which means composted...which means wet it down (not drown) and turn it every week or so (and keep it damp) for about a month. You'll be rewarded with the best soil you've ever used and will need little liquid nutrients. Now there are other amendments that can be quite useful but just those four will get you going well and rather inexpensively. The only item above which may be hard to source locally is the kelp meal and that can be ordered from amazon/many internet sources or if you have a feed store nearby you may find it there.
Check out the organic section here and you can find out how to grow without expensive liquid nutrients and you can learn to reuse your soil and get BETTER results than folks who buy new soil every grow.
And if you don't want to do any of that....Roots Organic...
Soil mix:
1/3 sphagnum peat moss
1/3 perlite
1/3 organic compost (I'm organic so...) - do NOT be cheap here. This is THE single most important component of your soil. If you can get vermicompost or castings that's great but organic and preferably free range chicken manure or organic steer manure can be good too.
---You've just made your base soil!
Amendments:
To each 8 gallons of soil mix
1/2 cup blood meal
1/2 cup bone meal
1 cup kelp meal
1/2 cup dolomitic lime
This mix of base soil with amendments will need to be "cooked"...which means composted...which means wet it down (not drown) and turn it every week or so (and keep it damp) for about a month. You'll be rewarded with the best soil you've ever used and will need little liquid nutrients. Now there are other amendments that can be quite useful but just those four will get you going well and rather inexpensively. The only item above which may be hard to source locally is the kelp meal and that can be ordered from amazon/many internet sources or if you have a feed store nearby you may find it there.
Check out the organic section here and you can find out how to grow without expensive liquid nutrients and you can learn to reuse your soil and get BETTER results than folks who buy new soil every grow.
And if you don't want to do any of that....Roots Organic...
TheSnake
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note, im on my first go around with the fox farm shit, and have yet to harvest whilst using, also have some in mg so ill post pics of the difference when my shit is almost ready for chop. so far everything i plant in mg has all sorts of def and lock outs n shit, you still get bud, just not as much as if they were not tormented by the god damn soil lol.
