sonewtothis
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What a good soil you can buy at a garden center if a name would help so new at this
Good soil
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Fallguy111
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I’d recommend peat moss, perlite and worm castings. Amend and top dress with dr earth. Can’t get any easier. I’m typically let down by pre made soils
King Avitas
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Recipe for "Good Soil"
Peat:
-7.5cu.ft. Sphagnum Peat Moss (fluffed Up)
Compost:
-1cu.ft. Sheep Manure Compost
-1cu.ft. Mushroom Manure Compost
-1cu.ft Sea Soil Fish Compost
-3cu.ft. Worm Castings
Aeration:
-4cu.ft. Coarse Perlite
-2cu.ft. Rice Hulls
1cu.ft Charged Bio-Char (not traditional airation but...)
Fertilizer Amendments:
10 Cup Kelp Meal
10 Cup Neem Cake
4 Cup Alfalfa
Mineral Amendments:
20 Cups Basalt Rock Dust
10 Cups Oyster Shell Flour
10 Cup Gypsum
Peat:
-7.5cu.ft. Sphagnum Peat Moss (fluffed Up)
Compost:
-1cu.ft. Sheep Manure Compost
-1cu.ft. Mushroom Manure Compost
-1cu.ft Sea Soil Fish Compost
-3cu.ft. Worm Castings
Aeration:
-4cu.ft. Coarse Perlite
-2cu.ft. Rice Hulls
1cu.ft Charged Bio-Char (not traditional airation but...)
Fertilizer Amendments:
10 Cup Kelp Meal
10 Cup Neem Cake
4 Cup Alfalfa
Mineral Amendments:
20 Cups Basalt Rock Dust
10 Cups Oyster Shell Flour
10 Cup Gypsum
mtnman2016
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2 grows ago I did 2 in Roots Organic and 2 in Ocean Forest. The RO sucked big time compared to OF. I did not even need to add nutes in OF until week 2 of flower but RO had to add 1 week before flower. I stick with Happy Frog during veg and transplant to OF feeding at week 2 in Flower when they tell me it is time. I use tap water after 4 grows in reverse osmosis water that made no difference except needing to feed more.
farmingfisherman
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Depends on the area you live. I used Fox Farm Ocean Forest once indoors and battled moisture gnats the entire time.
Marq1340
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Sorry to hear you possibly had a bad experience due to roots organic.
conor c
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Where are you from north america or europe or ?
sonewtothis
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Gnats are bad everywhere and I don't have any thing out
Fallguy111
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When gnats get bad my first and usually fatal step is top dressing with 1/2+ inches of worm castings. If that don’t work the mosquito corn stuff soak in water I then add perlite to water maybe a bit of soil and top dress that
FatherNelson
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Has anyone used Epsoma land and sea compost? I think I want to construct something around it.
Blue_Focus
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crimsonecho
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25% coco 25% peat 25% perlite and pumice 20% ewc and 5% manure. mix 1 tbsp high p bat guano per gallon of medium and a tsp of rye oat or whole wheat flour for fungi.
topdress with ewc manure and guano mix every week to every 2 weeks depending on your container and plant size. go straight water till harvest.
i set one of my friends up with this setup who had never grown anything in his life and his stuff looks better than mine jk lmao
topdress with ewc manure and guano mix every week to every 2 weeks depending on your container and plant size. go straight water till harvest.
i set one of my friends up with this setup who had never grown anything in his life and his stuff looks better than mine jk lmao
FatherNelson
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Does that stay moist for a few days? Coco + Peat would take awhile to dry out unless youre running hps
crimsonecho
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i think it takes about 3 days or so but i also built him a setup like mine with huge pots and we went with 4 seedlings in each pot. just way more forgiving than small pots especially for a begginer as long as you let them dry out fairly well.
ShowMeDaBudz
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50% Roots Organic Original and 50% Strawberry Fields is what im trying this year and sofar they love it.
Charles U Farley
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As long as you stick with _potting_ soil (not top soil, garden soil, etc.) you'll be okay for cannabis with pretty much any brand you'll find at a garden store. The primary ingredient in Promix, and almost all other potting soils, is peat.
I use Sta-Green (which is a Lowe's brand) and Miracle-Gro, because very frequently it's on sale and it's worked out okay for me for many, many years:
It's easy to get overwhelmed reading all the technical jargon on these cannabis forums, but if you just keep it simple and don't buy into the marketing jargon, cannabis is very easy to grow.
As long as you don't love it to death by over-watering / over fertilizing, or trying to micromanage everything about the environment and trying to make everything perfect, you'll do just fine.