Is growing out of compost a good or bad idea?

[ConstructABlunt]

Is growing out of compost a good or bad idea?

 

[beenthere donethat]

"compost" is a wide term and isn't much to go on for information purposes. However, chances are that it should be mixed with another medium and will be too "hot" to plant in straight up.

good luck

bt dt

 

[abudsmoker]

i would never recomend "compost" as a solid growing media, personally i like the soil plain and i control the nutes

 

[beenthere donethat]

I'm with you, abud. Control is where it's at...especially indoors.

Pests/bugs/other unknowns in compost should also be noted. You just don't know what yer getting/what's in there, etc.

good luck

bt dt

 

[green_nobody]

pure compost is often loaded with nutes to the top, so it easily burns plants. also can be the pH to high or to low to grow in there, so this has to be checked as well.

i wouldn't grow in pure compost, rather would i use it to to mix a base with soil and place it well below my plants rootball if i grow outdoors. that might work, but growing in pure will be trick to impossible.

try it first with a cloned plant, so that you only sacrefise a rooted clone and not a fancy seed

 

[green_nobody]

i would never recomend "compost" as a solid growing media, personally i like the soil plain and i control the nutes

if you would be a true control freak you would grow on pure perlite or rockwool. soil and even expanded clay add to much odds for a real control freak

 

[law]

would it be ok to grow with a compost/ perlite mix of 80% compost, 20% perlite?

 

[green_nobody]

would it be ok to grow with a compost/ perlite mix of 80% compost, 20% perlite?

if the compost isn't to loaded and the pH is right you could try this, but as i state earlyer, let a clone go first.

and if this your first grow dude, don't make yourself unhappy. rather go the easy route and buy some good soil mix it with perlite and grow your first few grows that way. you can experiment with it enough later on

 

[law]

well this is my first grow, and i have got seeds from some very badly grown skunk that got pollenated. it was loaded with seeds, but was not weed. have a hundred or so, and starting growing in the airing cupboard, but the temp was so high the plants actually went to a crisp. so i scraped that and threw it all away. just started germinating again now that i built my growbox.
I built it from a large 3 door wardrobe with 2 areas, one for veg and the other for grow. its 120cm high, 90cm deep, with 130cm wide, and 110cm wide.

got 200watt envirolite 6500k, and 4 2ft 18 watt fluoros. the flower section will have 7 23w cfls, 2 11w cfls, and a 400w sodium light.

I know yield is also to do with genetics, but do you think i could get a good crop from this?


ps sorry for thread jacking.

 

[st0ned4good]

Im sure he wont mind u jacked his thread since his question was already clearly answered but yea. All seeds have a chance to sprout healthy, fat, chronic yields(especially if its a good strain) even though the crop the seeds were grown from was not grown good, the seeds still have the opportunity to be better than its originator depending on how experienced the grower is, gl on ur grow man.

 

[ConstructABlunt]

fucking gay fag

 

[McGreasenstein]

green nobody, good answer, i never thought about the nutes burning the little ladies out, cuz i was really thinking about making a badass compost and putting some germies in it...i guess not now