Should I be watering to runoff?

Hollatchaboy said:

Ahhh.... the struggle of living and learning. I wanted to cry when my first plants died. Lol.... it's funny to me that when I first started I though to myself "it's just growing a plant. Water, light, dirt, how hard can it be? ". Man if I only knew.

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Raspberrykiwi said:

Well yeah. Organics is based on the amount of organic matter in the soil. The more, the better. You can get away with soil, compost and worm castings from seed to harvest. But if you start removing compost and worm castings and just use soil, you’ll run into issues with only soil and dry amendments. I used dry amendments only my first try, cooked my plants in 2 weeks. I tried to add more amendments thinking maybe they’re deficient. They died within a couple days.

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Raspberrykiwi said:

Man. I thought “ima follow the mr canuk from YouTube. Dry amendments and a peat moss”. I fucked up. Idk what he does that makes it work, but I definitely couldn’t. First try making my own soil lol. Went terrible. I’m sure now I could do it no problem, some peat, perlite, compost, ewc and wallaaaa. My very own homemade soil mix lol.

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Hollatchaboy said:

I feel dry amendments are needed

Lol yea he does have a way to make them look.... perfect. I started off with hygro hybrid. It's the same with him. They make it look so easy, and it is once you get the hang of it, but until then.... let's just say I never used to have anxiety.

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Raspberrykiwi said:

How is it too late to switch to organic. Give a nice watering til runoff to wash out the salts. I told someone do that mid grow and his plants came out great. If you aren’t an experienced grower, bottled nutes can be difficult. Getting his soil right can definitely save them plants.

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Raspberrykiwi said:

Well yeah. Organics is based on the amount of organic matter in the soil. The more, the better. You can get away with soil, compost and worm castings from seed to harvest. But if you start removing compost and worm castings and just use soil, you’ll run into issues with only soil and dry amendments. I used dry amendments only my first try, cooked my plants in 2 weeks. I tried to add more amendments thinking maybe they’re deficient. They died within a couple days.

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GardenWeasel77 said:

Interesting. If I were to make my own soil with compost ewc perlite and ffof what ratio would you recommend?

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