Birdrussell
Well-Known Member
I've seen quite a few posts on here about growing with Dr. Earth and similar products, but I had a lot of trouble finding what exactly to feed my plant. Luckily soil grows are forgiving and organinc nutes by and large are forgiving as well. I've actually stopped measuring my nutes because I don't want fermented fish guts and bird shit on my 5mL mesuring spoon, but also because its unlikely I'll burn my plants, so why worry. All in all I find it's a great way to learn to grow.
The first nutrient up is superthrive. Its marketed as a vitamin b-1 supliments and claims to help with promoting root growth.
I believe it's made of kelp and other stuff.
Next up I used Dr. Earth tomato fert and their general use fertilizer with NPK values of 3-2-2 and 1-1-1 respectively.
I picked up some unsulfered blackstrap molasses. As I understand it molasses has an NPK value of 1-0-5 and gives your bacterial and fungal cultures something to snack on down in the soil. I use about 5mL/1Tbsp per gallon of water.
I grabbed a fish emulsion and guano fertilizer as well as plants just adore fermented fish and guano. That has an NPK value of 9-6-2.
For flower I got some morbloom. It has an NPK value of 0-10-10. For the flower cycle I've been using only the Dr. Earth tomato fert and the morbloom. In a week or so I'll only be using the morbloom.
And with those ingredients, used as directed, I have successfully grown a plant out to its second week of flower without complications.
I've been feeding nutrients pretty consistently using distilled water that I buy from the local grocery. I need an RO system but I'm just not there yet. Since switching to flower I have feed with only pure water a couple of times instead of a nutrient solution. Other than that the plant has been super low maintenance.
Like I said, everything here can be obtained through Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, ect... Also I pretty much just followed the directions on each bottle. Often times I'll err on the side of using less than directed as there is a ton of stuff in my nutrient solution. Lastly, I've been mixing up 1 gallon at a time.
I wanted to do a grow like this just to see that it's possible and it appears to be. It's been real fun and given me a chance to play with different training methods because my plant has been healthy as an ox.
In conclusion, if you want to grow and don't have access to a proper hydroponics store, or an Amazon account you can still grow a great plant.
The first nutrient up is superthrive. Its marketed as a vitamin b-1 supliments and claims to help with promoting root growth.
I believe it's made of kelp and other stuff.
Next up I used Dr. Earth tomato fert and their general use fertilizer with NPK values of 3-2-2 and 1-1-1 respectively.
I picked up some unsulfered blackstrap molasses. As I understand it molasses has an NPK value of 1-0-5 and gives your bacterial and fungal cultures something to snack on down in the soil. I use about 5mL/1Tbsp per gallon of water.
I grabbed a fish emulsion and guano fertilizer as well as plants just adore fermented fish and guano. That has an NPK value of 9-6-2.
For flower I got some morbloom. It has an NPK value of 0-10-10. For the flower cycle I've been using only the Dr. Earth tomato fert and the morbloom. In a week or so I'll only be using the morbloom.
And with those ingredients, used as directed, I have successfully grown a plant out to its second week of flower without complications.
I've been feeding nutrients pretty consistently using distilled water that I buy from the local grocery. I need an RO system but I'm just not there yet. Since switching to flower I have feed with only pure water a couple of times instead of a nutrient solution. Other than that the plant has been super low maintenance.
Like I said, everything here can be obtained through Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, ect... Also I pretty much just followed the directions on each bottle. Often times I'll err on the side of using less than directed as there is a ton of stuff in my nutrient solution. Lastly, I've been mixing up 1 gallon at a time.
I wanted to do a grow like this just to see that it's possible and it appears to be. It's been real fun and given me a chance to play with different training methods because my plant has been healthy as an ox.
In conclusion, if you want to grow and don't have access to a proper hydroponics store, or an Amazon account you can still grow a great plant.
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damn, what a grow!! Very impressive to have a grow that large all organic