Gaia Green vs. Nature's Pride

For anyone in the GTA, I've searched pretty far and wide for cheap goods, and the best prices I can find on Gaia Green products are here. Hope this helps. I'm not affiliated with them all, they're just not too far from me and their prices are great.
 
I imagine that if you add some earthworm castings, you can get the microbes you want in there, too.
You can add up to 25% of your total mix. Best place to get them locally is here. Their castings are certified organic, they literally test their castings for microbial activity and they're very well-priced. They're also in the GTA.

Castings = Magic for your plants. There's a YouTube video in which someone grew out an entire plant with nothing but earthworm castings, and it made its way to harvest nicely with no added nutrients.
 
I have some seaweed powder that I got from my local grow store. This stuff is powerful. He said the castings aren’t necessary if I use the kelp. So I opted not to get it. I seen his harvest and he’s someone I can definitely lean on for info.
 
I use GG 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 in my soil mixes. For my indoor girls I topdress with a 3/4” layer of fresh ewc at 2 and 4 weeks of flower. At 6 weeks I take a cup of fresh ewc and add it to a gallon of water. I use that to water the girls. They love it!!
 
kkt3 said:
I use GG 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 in my soil mixes. For my indoor girls I topdress with a 3/4” layer of fresh ewc at 2 and 4 weeks of flower. At 6 weeks I take a cup of fresh ewc and add it to a gallon of water. I use that to water the girls. They love it!!
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How much of the 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 do you mix in? When? I'm thinking of going Gaia Green in my next grow; there seem to be a lot of successful grows using just those two in ProMix.

Do you let the ewc/water mix sit for a while before using it? Cheers.
 
GiovanniJones said:
How much of the 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 do you mix in? When? I'm thinking of going Gaia Green in my next grow; there seem to be a lot of successful grows using just those two in ProMix.

Do you let the ewc/water mix sit for a while before using it? Cheers.
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I add the GG as per instructions on the back.
My Mom, she’s 88, and me are gonna have a competition this summer. We’re mixing up soils this week so I’ll be adding the GG to our mixes. Also adding a few other amendments such as Neem seed meal, fresh ewc and compost and of course garden gypsum. That way it will sit for about a month before we put our Deep Mandarin CBD plants in the planters.

I just add the ewc to the gallon, give it a good few shakes and it’s good to water with!!
 
Thanks. Do you mix the 4-4-4 in initially, then top dress with 2-8-4 during flower?

I also grow CBD plants, it's awesome to have CBD oil in the house at all times. I've had good success with Dr. Seedsman seeds.
 
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GiovanniJones said:
Thanks. Do you mix the 4-4-4 in initially, then top dress with 2-8-4 during flower?

I also grow CBD plants, it's awesome to have CBD oil in the house at all times. I've had good success with Dr. Seedsman seeds.
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I add all amendments at the same time when mixing my soil.
Yes the Deep Mandarin CBD is what I make my gummies with. And since I make fem seeds out of all my strains, I have lots of them available.
My Mom and one of my brothers as well as myself take the gummies for helping us sleep.
 
GiovanniJones said:
Thanks. Do you mix the 4-4-4 in initially, then top dress with 2-8-4 during flower?

I also grow CBD plants, it's awesome to have CBD oil in the house at all times. I've had good success with Dr. Seedsman seeds.
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Was gonna ask you if you make your own CBD oil? If so, how do you do it?
 
kkt3 said:
Was gonna ask you if you make your own CBD oil? If so, how do you do it?
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  • I take 30g of dried CBD bud and chop it into smaller pieces with a kitchen knife on a cutting board
  • I decarb it on a cookie sheet in the oven at 245°F for maybe a bit over an hour.
  • It infuses in a Levo II using the potency hack that can be seen in this video.
  • The entire 30g of bud goes into the machine, as well as one cup of MCT oil. Costco has this oil at a good price.
I get almost 200 mL with this method; I can't seem to get the full 250 mL of oil that goes in. However, with the Dr. Seedsman bud, this gives me a potent, really high-quality CBD oil that's better than I used to get from my LPs in Canada. I feel like larger quantities would be easier to do in a crock pot though.

LPs well 40 mL bottles of CBD oil for $90 plus tax, this is way better!
 
If you mix in 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 into your soil at the start, do you put in the 3 Tbsp/gallon of each according to the package directions, or to you make sure that the total of the two adds up to 3 Tbsp/gallon?

I've hear that a ratio of 2/3 4-4-4 to 1/3 2-8-4 works well.

Btw, I hope your mom wins the competition this summer!
 
For you fellow Gia 4-4-4 fans, it gets cheaper the larger size of package you buy. I buy 20kg for $83 from the hydro shop. It would probably cost me triple that to source all those ingredients and mix it myself. I toss a full bag in my veggie garden each year and have unreal harvests.
 
Really? The lowest price I could find is $89.99. I'd love to know where that hydro shop is, in case it's in town! Cheers.
 
GiovanniJones said:
If you mix in 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 into your soil at the start, do you put in the 3 Tbsp/gallon of each according to the package directions, or to you make sure that the total of the two adds up to 3 Tbsp/gallon?

I've hear that a ratio of 2/3 4-4-4 to 1/3 2-8-4 works well.

Btw, I hope your mom wins the competition this summer!
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I add each on accordingly. It work’s for me. The ratio application would work as well.
Yes my Mom is gonna grow her own medicine!!
 
Dark_Hatchling said:
What would anyone recommend as a substitute for Gaia Green? Amazon wants an additional 82 bucks to ship it to me.... the product is only $55...
GG website appears to be down at the moment also.

I am trying an all organic (outdoor) grow this year and I am looking for something to top dress with for Veg and then something to top dress for Flower.
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I heard dr earth is the same thing. It’s a 5-5-5 tho not 4-4-4 I believe.. if I were u I’d get a few peat based soil 3.8s like I do, I live on a dairy farm so I grab the old composted cow manure at the back of a like 100yr old manure pile it’s just like soil It’s dark n rich I mix bout 80% peat soil wit the perlite in it wit 20% of that compost manure, then I used to just add bone n blood meal kelp, rock phosphate etc.. u can get all the stuff Gaia green has individually and make ur own supersoil similar to subcool n them in California
 
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