Canna Bio Terra Plus Soil Mix

cerberus said:

As it was explained to me, those fruit gnats are the top of culture train in your dirt. The gnats don't cause any harm to plants (although they are a nuisance) and removing them is removing the top of the food chain in the culture your trying to build with an organic setup.

, if you can accept the gnats, you want to leave them alone.

this is second hand knowledge though..

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Dude, no. Fungus gnats eat your roots (as Mr. Rize above stated), and spread fungal diseases among other things. Do not want.

R. Duke said:

I have used both Canna soils, both the Bio Terra and the Terra Pro Plus. they are both very good. they are especially porous and retain water well. You do however need to break it up by hand thoroughly. Add extra perlite no matter what the bag tells you. Time released nutes and all that jazz written on the bag, well i wouldn't read too into that. Add your usual amendments: guano, blood and bone mean, etc. For veg it makes growing pretty effortless. But if you are using it for flowering (which is expensive, personally i use it for veg only and something more cost effective like Roots Organic for flowering) dont put too much stock in the soil alone and use a regular feeding program.

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I don't break it up. I think the giant peat aggregates are what makes this product so great. And I reuse. But I do add some perlite to the BTPlus. I feed it like there is nothing there.

Matt Rize said:

I don't break it up. I think the giant peat aggregates are what makes this product so great. And I reuse. But I do add some perlite to the BTPlus. I feed it like there is nothing there.

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I'll have to give it a try that way. I did incidentally stumble upon something that i will do from here on out. when i made up my last batch of vegging soil which consisted of Canna TPP, perlite, a little bit of blood meal for nitrogen, and some mykos from extreme gardening. I transplanted my clones and made a good deal of the soil mix left. I put the soil in a large tupperware bin and put it out in the garage for later use. about 3 weeks later i opened it for the first time and the soil had been entirely colonized with Mykos and had white fuzz growing along the top. It had become completely alive. With the timing of my grow i havent got a chance to use that batch yet, but the concept of utilizing the beneficial bacteria for the entire life cycle of the plant is great. the only real downside to buying expensive mycorhizae is that it takes some time before your plants get to enjoy it benefits and the fungus has colonized your root system. and with only a 2-3 month life cycle that time can be cut short.