Mixing Fox Farm and Outdoor Soil

Eksellent

Active Member
For my guerilla grow I am planning to layer a gallon of Fox Farm soil for every plant and as the plants grow let the roots form into the soil which is already there. Do you think this is alright?

I am limited in my resources for soil, and don't like pots either especially outdoors I want the plant to live in harmony with the environment.,
 

Faldikar

Active Member
yep youll do just fine, depending on the surrounding soil you may have to supplement with ferts later on
 

Kb's seeds

Active Member
the ocean forest will do the trick but if u havent bought it yet id go with either the happy frog soil conditioner, or the garden & bloome soil amending compost, the garden &bloome is cheaper than the fox farm and u get 3cu.ft. (round 20 gals of soil) instead of 1.5cu.ft. of soil, since ur trying to losen ur natural soil for ur roots to go into i would at least lay a layer of the soil amending compost before u put the ocean forest down, trust me it will make it easier for the roots to pentrate the natural soil
 

Chronic Indica

Active Member
Ideally you want the surrounding soil to be "hot" with nutes. If you have the extra few bucks I would recommend making subcool's supersoil mix.

8 large bags of a high-quality organic potting soil with coco fiber and mycorrhizae (i.e., your base soil)
25 to 50 lbs of organic worm castings
5 lbs steamed bone meal
5 lbs Bloom bat guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
¾ cup Epson salts
½ cup sweet lime (dolomite)
½ cup azomite (trace elements)
2 tbsp powdered humic acid

This would be the bottom layer soil, the top layer soil you would want to just use the regular potting mix or roots organics.
 

Big N' Tasty

New Member
Can you describe your native soil? If its heavy clay or sand, you would probably be better off digging individual holes (or finding another area) and filling them with FF soil. Even if you have the ideal soil type you should probably still dig individual holes (they wont need to be as big/deep as they would in shitty soil because its easy for the roots to penetrate and is already fertile), but you could most likely get away with just layering the FF on top. You should use nutrients (organic of course :p) for the flowering cycle. Your plants will live without them (planted in ground, with no pots) and seek out nutrients already in the soil, but your yields will probably suffer.
 

Eksellent

Active Member
OK thanks for the info guys, I am still waiting for my germinated seeds to sprout. I planted on 4/29, it's been 4 days. I'm afraid the temperature is getting to them this week its 50 at coldest and 82 at warmest. Last few days it went into the mid 40's though, and I have the sprouts in cups outside.
 

Kb's seeds

Active Member
i have a seed that popped up at the end of febuary this year, she survived the cold weather, showed me sex its a female which really suprised me cause ive the only seed sprouts ive seen survive winter turned out to be males, but this lady is one hellva a hardy female, im pretty sure she is a indica dominant, idk fasure the strain cause when i germinate seeds to grow indoors the ones that dont pop in a day or two get tossed in the backyard (unless theyre really old seeds i give them alittle longer to pop since theyre older) so its one of the seeds i tossed out after it wouldnt germinate, and that means it could be almost anything ranging from afgooey, redwood kush, nl#2, trainwreck, purple snow, green dream, ortega indica, granndaddys machine gun and so on i have alota seeds ive collected and alot donated by other breeders for me to test so it could be anything im excited to find out, anyway here is a pic i took on 4/20, ur seeds should be fine and its suppose to be warmin up, its already in the high 80's where im at unknown seed 420.jpg
 

sonar

Well-Known Member
I don't mess around with all that stuff. I just use time released nutes for the most part. This year is going to be Fox Farms American pride plus the Botanicare Pure Blend Pro lineup for hand feeding when necessary.
 

Chronic Indica

Active Member
Slow release nutes burned my plants and gave them the wrong amount of nutes at the different stages of plant growth, I would not recommend using soil with slow release nutes whatsoever from my past experiences.
 
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