flyawayclyde
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I feel ya here...
Mix up an organic soil. Let it sit for 6 to 8 weeks, then water only.
Mix up an organic soil. Let it sit for 6 to 8 weeks, then water only.
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I use budstorm additive and just some banana peel tea sometimes with a bit of seaweed tonic for flowering and for veg just some blood and bone fish fertiliser but I don't over do it really in veg just once a week feed but once into flower I use almost every watering then flush then let dry out a little then water then back to nutes for few more days straight now and then I see a little burn on my leaves but nothing major the buds are sweet then at the end just flush then water for the last 2 weeks before I let dry out before cutting and hanging but I've only just started with the budstorm seems OK tho I was just using banana peel tea but just wasn't cutting it really and the one mil of bud storm does almost 3litres which is not bad and throw in some seaweed fertalizers and yeah it's pritty much done but I'm no expert but it works for me
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Alien GreenThumbs
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Ready for my easy peazy way to remember the minimum amount to feed on feeding days? Be sure to have a ppm meter handy,....ready?......never feed more ppms than light watts. Tada!I will never understand the math on using nutes... If I am to add for every gallon of water, I feel that I would kill my plants... As a matter of fact, I followed the directions for feedings and totally fried and stunted my first grow!!! I've tried doing it my own way but that usually results in it not being enough or it being too much... Everyone else ceems to grow great plants following these steps, but it just doesn't work out well for me...
Okay, now that I got that off my chest, let me cee how bad I can fuck this next run up!!!
So, for instance: my tap is 240 ppms. Already more than my veg light watts, but its not NPK. So on a feeding day i add 100 ppms of NPK to my tap,(100 watts in veg) for a total of 340 ppms, of which only 100 ppms are nutes. Get it? If you approch feeds from this perspective, you error on the side of not enough, which you can then you bump up ppms on that next feed if necessary. If not, stay at the same ppms. When you start off hot, its hard to pull back and understand what your plants are burning from. Good luck!
Yeah I prefer to go minimal the last few weeks of flower I've just upped it a tad not by much not enough to kill her anyway but yeah i have 4 other clones from her next to her with no symptoms of burn at all maybe because there needing it for that push to bud I'm not sure but they getting exact recipe of the mum maybe mum is almost done so I may have to slow right down on any nutes for her but I'm only on week 4 and a half now so I'm not sure I want to grow her another 3 weeks at least hopefully I've got pistels changing color and she's maturing and smelling beautiful I must say but for me I don't smoke there just like roses to me I ain't in a hurry but I am kind of running out of light to and space my 600w for flower and 400w for veg is pushing there limits now and mum takes up the light more or less her self but yeah having 7 plants under a 600w is not ideal I know
speedwell68
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I wish I had the space to do something like that.
What do you meen repot my mother plant
Oh I have over 21 plants all up 17 of them are vegging and as soon as ones done I put another one over to flower its a endless forest most are clones so not as big as seed cause seed will always be taller and bigger really they grow so big I have 6 from seed and they were last and there bigger then all of them even the one budding which I grew in veg for 2 months or something like that it's not fair hahaha but yeah clones are great because u really don't have to wait for ages for it to mature just when you ready change it over I usually go 6 or more weeks of veg give them enough momentum to atleast give a oz and what ever else is a bonus and alday you going to get more the a oz off one
Frank Nitty
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That is what I have been wanting to do...What kind of mix are we talking about??? I need to get something together before I run out of money!!!
flyawayclyde
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So at the risk of sounding like I am so knowledgeable about all this soil. I will admit that I am a new grower. And have had many set backs this last 4 months. That said, I came across this thread on a different site. It has been around for many years now, and many growers have used it, I have 72 gallons of it "cooking" 3 weeks to go.
Buy the ingredients once, use soil, and reuse again. Water only, no "Nutes" added during grow.
Easy Organic Soil Mix for Beginners
So you want to go organic but don't know where to start? Here's a recipe for an easy, organic, water-only soil that will provide more than enough...
speedwell68
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That is interesting. My niggle with that is that the UK are banning the sale of Peat based products in 2024 and they are already getting hard to buy.So at the risk of sounding like I am so knowledgeable about all this soil. I will admit that I am a new grower. And have had many set backs this last 4 months. That said, I came across this thread on a different site. It has been around for many years now, and many growers have used it, I have 72 gallons of it "cooking" 3 weeks to go.
Buy the ingredients once, use soil, and reuse again. Water only, no "Nutes" added during grow.
Easy Organic Soil Mix for Beginners
So you want to go organic but don't know where to start? Here's a recipe for an easy, organic, water-only soil that will provide more than enough...forum.grasscity.com
At the moment I am mixing bagged wood/green waste compost with farmyard manure and Perlite. It works, but I feel it needs some tweaking. The compost I use is locally produced and the same company are bringing out a proprietary pre-mixed which is organic.
How many of you put hot water over your soil before you plant in it to kill bugs and what other preparations do yous make before you put that soil and plant in your rooms cause that's what I do and if I get a clone off a mate I neem it leave it somewere over night before I put with my plants
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flyawayclyde
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I feel ya my friend, I was also using bagged wood-waste/steer manure and bagged compost. My last grow, and by the 7th week. My plants were stunted and sick. I couldn't figure out what the plants were telling me, I was chasing my tail. And after doing that 2 times before.
I was willing to give it a whirl. Some of the ingredients I was able to find at a local feed store. The rest of the ingredients I sourced off of Amazon.
The thread is 757 pages long, and I am on 177. A lot of real good information there.
I can't wait to get my next four seedlings in this mix in 3 weeks time.
Flyaway
flyawayclyde
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Oh forgot to mention, there is a 'Modified' version of this recipe, using 'Coir' as the peat.
speedwell68
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Coir is as bad for the environment as peat is.
speedwell68
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That will kill all of the microscopic life.
So what precautions do you take before planting or do u just hope there's none
PadawanWarrior
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speedwell68
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At the end of the day you have to have faith it will all turn out ok. If you are worried about pests in soil then go hydro.
The only insect I have ever had issue with is Fungus Gnats and they are easy to deal with.
Porky1982
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Soil is alive. You just accept that when you use it.
Use coco or perlite if you want something free of life.