Thanks for responding. The potting mix is a slow time release type of deal, says it feeds for up to 3 months. Should I just let it do its thing for awhile and hold off on the nutes? I've read about the gh flora nova series before, i thought it was primarily used to grow hydro, but maybe I'm wrong. I plan on getting a small hydro system an maybe a 5 gal bucket also. I did plan on buying the gh flora nova for that, so if i can use this stuff with soil, I'll kill 2 birds with one stone.