I would lov to give supersoil a go, but after having dealt with root aphids and mites in the past, I am very hesitant to go with soil. I hear lots of horror stories about Roots soils coming with thrips and RA's and such and I am just, "no way". I am sticking with hydro until I know for sure I can get clean soil.
What can I say... I smoke weed, I am paranoid!
Anything but mites is irrelevant and pretty easy to deal with... thrips and aphids are easily wiped out by lady bugs... i've had aphids before (not from roots). If you're paranoid about bugs you can either do like subcool (pretreat soil with an organic bug killer like spinocid (sp)) or bake the soil to kill anything in it. I don't do any of that shit... i've never had spider mites, but they are definitely in my back yard -- they took down a pepper plant we had there. the only thing i'm really worried about is mites because usually by the time you find out about them, it's bad no matter what -- at the BEST a big pain in the ass. I've never heard that hydro prevents you from getting mites though I'm pretty sure you can get mites on your plants in hydro through transmission... probably does make it harder without the soil tho.
Damn you Reff,Now i wanna do a Supersoil grow......Can you mix up a small amount to do like 5 plants.
I wanna try it,But dont wanna spend a fortune just to try it!!
Wanna just try it on one flower station.
Beech
I do a 1/4 of a batch at a time... 2 bags of super soil and 1/4 the recipe... about $50 for the soil tho if you got a good one locally cheaper you can always go with that... $5-10 for castings, the rest you pretty much have to get in packages that can be used for multiple runs of super soil or your own custom mix, or your outdoor plants, so it's not like it's gonna go to waste even if you don't keep using super soil.... probably around $40-50 that'll get you through several batches of super soil... So yeah probably gonna cost you over $100 for a small batch to do it the way I am... this whole run was from 4 bags of roots probably around $150ish in actual ingredients... which is definitely not cheap, but for me I probably yield a lot more in super soil than the other ways I've tried so it's a small amount compared to what I get back from it -- really one better yielding plant pays for the whole thing if I get an ounce extra you know what I mean?
How was I not subscribed to this before? Epic LEDness.
Unfortunately moving further away from LED as I go due to not wanting to spend the $$ to invest in bigger LEDs... since my focus is trying to save to move I can't really justify it at least until i'm set up somewhere else
i'm still not so much in love with HPS as with the big buds those little 240s just can't deliver on comparatively
I do prefer roots for the same reason as you it's a lighter mix more in between soilless and soil than one or the other.... you could really almost say it's soilless with the benefits of soil -- there's not much actual soil in there compared to other mixes. I tried happy frog the mix was way too heavy for me I ended up overwatering because I'm used to watering with roots... you almost can't overwater with roots it's very forgiving in that sense, especially if you combine it with airpots
Roots is the best soil I've used so far, tho I'm sure tga's version will blow it away if I ever get ahold of some... not gonna say you're guaranteed no bugs with roots (tho gnats is the worst i've had, and that's as much on me as the soil -- they need a moist place to live
i can't say for sure i even ever got gnats from roots since i tend to use more than one thing), but as far as quality for growing taking that out of the equation it's up there (unless you're looking for a soil that retains more water and willing to take the risks associated with that... still you can add stuff for water retention for example i add extra coco coir)
In case you haven't noticed a lot of my grow is tailored to making it easier for me not to fuck things up
water is the next end of that equation...
Tonight's day 35 so I will probably be taking a vid here shortly since i moved my light schedule to days I don't have to wait til 8:30 to take the vid
we'll see how big those ace and finishing timewreck buds have gotten...
