I read this whole thread again this afternoon and laughed my ass off! Every time Gypsy put his fingers on the keyboard
I felt like I was on the back end of (a non ph buffered) manure spreader getting completely covered in bull shit!
:clap::clap:
I have 20, 7 gallon fabric pots that had root bound plants in them.
I want to reuse the soil and amend it again.
Is there an easier way to break up the root ball, wet, dry, etc?
I'm hacking away at the dry root balls with an axe, lol
I soak my seeds for 24 hours
Put in light soil slightly moist in small solo cups planted about 1/4" deep
Cover with plastic wrap, put in a warm place
Mist daily as needed to keep soil moist
POP
Autos don't need a lot of nutes. Your growing medium mix sounds a little weird to me. Weird in the sense that it seems to be in between two common mediums?
Don't worry about runoff ppm in soil. If you're collecting enough runoff to test, you're over watering!
My water is 7.2 well water and never had any problems with the ph in SOIL.
Soil watering rule of thumb, 1 quart of water per gallon of pot size. Wait till pot is light, then water again. Don't...
10% amber is fine if that is what you want.
Cut your mature colas with the lights ON, don't disturb the light cycle
Leave the rest to mature a little more, it's called a "staged harvest"
Seedlings that size I always mist a couple times a day, and never dump water on them
Also hang your lights at 32" to 34" above the seedlings, no closer than that
I've been in the same boat as you before
I don't bother with ppm or ph in soil as well.
If you're watering to the point where you can collect enough water for testing, you're over watering the soil.
I water just to the point of saturation or a bit less, no run off.
Start nutes at 1/4 strength then increase every other watering if you...