RyaNayR
Well-Known Member
So I decided to go the cheap & easy route for my soil by buying one of those all-in-one potting soil bags.
This bag includes "forest product compost", sphagnum peat, perlite, "a wetting agent", and supposedly four months worth of nutes. The nutes are 0.07% nitrogen, 0.01% phosphorous, and 0.03% potassium, by bag volume. And the bag is 8 quarts volume and 4.8 lb (2.17 kg) weight.
Now I plan on buying additional nutes for it in the right proportions for vegging, specifically 12-6-6. But will the preincluded nutes be good to start off with?
Also, please check out my setup and let me know if this is going to be sufficient at least to start off with.
Here's some pics:
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I'm using a beer can with the top cut off and some holes drilled into the bottom as the first pot, and a broken Aerogarden that I found as the light source. And the seeds are being germinated in a damp paper towl sealed in a plastic bag.
Also, are the seeds going to need to be in total darkness to germinate or should I leave them slightly out of the light like they are now?
I'm trying to make this grow as cheap as possible, so try not to be too critical about the cheapness of it all.![Laughing :lol: :lol:](/styles/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
This bag includes "forest product compost", sphagnum peat, perlite, "a wetting agent", and supposedly four months worth of nutes. The nutes are 0.07% nitrogen, 0.01% phosphorous, and 0.03% potassium, by bag volume. And the bag is 8 quarts volume and 4.8 lb (2.17 kg) weight.
Now I plan on buying additional nutes for it in the right proportions for vegging, specifically 12-6-6. But will the preincluded nutes be good to start off with?
Also, please check out my setup and let me know if this is going to be sufficient at least to start off with.
Here's some pics:
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I'm using a beer can with the top cut off and some holes drilled into the bottom as the first pot, and a broken Aerogarden that I found as the light source. And the seeds are being germinated in a damp paper towl sealed in a plastic bag.
Also, are the seeds going to need to be in total darkness to germinate or should I leave them slightly out of the light like they are now?
I'm trying to make this grow as cheap as possible, so try not to be too critical about the cheapness of it all.
![Laughing :lol: :lol:](/styles/smilies/icon_lol.gif)