need tips on cheap good soil

i need tips on the cheap good soil i was told MG but i was also told it sucks i need tips for the best cheap soil i need this soil available to buy from wal mart

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I'm no expert, but i'm on my 3rd grow, and i've always used miracle grow. The only thing I do is add a good amount of perlite to the soil and it seems to work fine.

can u buy perlite cheap at wal mart tho? and is it cheap?

ya pretty much any store that sells soil will have perlite, and it is cheap. only a few $ for a decent sized bag. the one bag i bought was more than enough to mix with the 41 gallons of soil i used for my 6 plants

I add perlite to everything. With MG soil, don't add any ferts for 2-3 months.. just water.

soz im also interested is the ratio about 70-30 or 50-50?

growwwww said:

soz im also interested is the ratio about 70-30 or 50-50?

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I use 11 parts soil to 3 parts perlite. Basically 4:1

is perlite the white strifoam things in the soil i believe i already have them

yes, perlite is the white styrofoam in soil, but it seems to me that pot plants like a bit more perlite in the mix than what comes premixed in most soils. The perlite allows for better drainage of water, and more air pockets in the soil. trust me, the roots of your plants will love it...

As for fertilizing, (again im no expert) I started to slowly introduce nutes (using mg soil) when my plants had 2 - 3 sets of true fan leafs. I only used about 1/4 of what was recommended and increased from there. the only nute problem i had was when i started to induce flowering, and my dumbass switched to a flowering nute with an npk of 10-54-10, not realising that the plant would actually do a lot of VEGETATIVE growth (stretching phase) during the 1st week or so that my lights were on the 12 - 12 light cycle. in doing this i burned my plants pretty bad due to the high amounts of P nutes when the plant still really needed mostly N. I think i also may have given them too much of this solution for the first feeding of flowering nutes. anyway, here are what my plants looked like about a week before i switched to flowering.

the plants dont look that big to be flowering in these pics, but i had the plants in 7 gal. pots which are pretty large. these were actually all at least 22 inches

sick grow bro n tanks for the info REP+ and does perlite come in a big bag or a small bag? i need enough for just one or two plants 2 at max

the bag i bought was about the size of a small bag of soil, but it was only about 1/2 to 3/4 full

how much did that bag cost?

You can probably find a bag of perlite for under $7.

THanks also another quick question, can you mix perlite with manure? like all purpose manure or whatever? so like 70 percent manure and 30 percent perlite?

I don't play with shit, so I can't help you with that one.

a bag of dirt at menards..1.50 ..a bag of moo doo compost at mennards...another 1.50...a bag of garden lime..5 bucks..just add a couple of handfulls to your soil...a bag of perlite ...mennards five bucks for a little bag..at your greenhouse supply...15 bucks for two cubic ft..ALOT.imix the moo doo compost at the rate of 25% into the dirt..then i put a couple of nice handfull;s of garden lime into that mix..then i mix in around 40 to 50% perlite..and wa la.....done..

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a bag of dirt at menards..1.50 ..a bag of moo doo compost at mennards...another 1.50...a bag of garden lime..5 bucks..just add a couple of handfulls to your soil...a bag of perlite ...mennards five bucks for a little bag..at your greenhouse supply...15 bucks for two cubic ft..ALOT.imix the moo doo compost at the rate of 25% into the dirt..then i put a couple of nice handfull;s of garden lime into that mix..then i mix in around 40 to 50% perlite..and wa la.....done..

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Sounds like a good mix. My only concern with the el cheapo soils is bugs.

(I just started a soil mix comparison experiment, MG, ProMix, FF, and coco. Will see what is BS and what isn't. Will post results once all done)