Soil, growing tomatoes v marijuana

Beard-o

Beard-o

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While I take my marijuana growing seriously, I'm super serious about my tomatoes.
Each year I grow 50 tomato plants, outdoors, in 10 gallon soft pots. Each spring I amend the soil in each pot. Dump it out, pull out old roots, add myco, worm castings, lime, bone meal, and a really healthy dose of composted bagged cow manure. A lot of manure.

I "think" all the other stuff helps. But I know it's the cow manure that gives tomatoes a boost. I grow beautiful tomatoes.
So, wouldn't the same work for marijuana? Clean up your old used soil, and refill half the bag with cow manure, some myco and call it a day.

Marijuana is a weed. Everything commercial farmers grow is fertilized with cow manure, and thrives. Why not marijuana?
 
Woedae

Woedae

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Beard-o said:
While I take my marijuana growing seriously, I'm super serious about my tomatoes.
Each year I grow 50 tomato plants, outdoors, in 10 gallon soft pots. Each spring I amend the soil in each pot. Dump it out, pull out old roots, add myco, worm castings, lime, bone meal, and a really healthy dose of composted bagged cow manure. A lot of manure.

I "think" all the other stuff helps. But I know it's the cow manure that gives tomatoes a boost. I grow beautiful tomatoes.
So, wouldn't the same work for marijuana? Clean up your old used soil, and refill half the bag with cow manure, some myco and call it a day.

Marijuana is a weed. Everything commercial farmers grow is fertilized with cow manure, and thrives. Why not marijuana?
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I don't see or know of any reason why cow manure wouldn't work great for cannabis. Most manure tends to have good levels of phos and nitrogen, some can be used without composting and others need it. Bovine manure has a very high organic matter content and will burn plants if not composted first. Also known for higher potential to contain pathogens.

I prefer to use alpaca, fish manure and insect frass in my compost pile, also used as an ammendment I can incorporate into a soil mix or use as a top dressing. But the most important thing to consider when choosing a manure is the initial quality, meaning... what it's food source was.
 
BongerChonger

BongerChonger

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Grow my out outdoor organically, like someone would their veggie garden. I use blood and bone meal, cow manure, gypsum, dolomite lime and mulch, that's it. Plus, I also like using composted chicken manure just before stretch starts, but that's just me.

I usually top dress with manure a couple times through the grow. Plants have always liked it a lot and it's easy to tell.

The worms like it a lot too.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Beard-o said:
While I take my marijuana growing seriously, I'm super serious about my tomatoes.
Each year I grow 50 tomato plants, outdoors, in 10 gallon soft pots. Each spring I amend the soil in each pot. Dump it out, pull out old roots, add myco, worm castings, lime, bone meal, and a really healthy dose of composted bagged cow manure. A lot of manure.

I "think" all the other stuff helps. But I know it's the cow manure that gives tomatoes a boost. I grow beautiful tomatoes.
So, wouldn't the same work for marijuana? Clean up your old used soil, and refill half the bag with cow manure, some myco and call it a day.

Marijuana is a weed. Everything commercial farmers grow is fertilized with cow manure, and thrives. Why not marijuana?
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Cannabis and tomatoes are well known to enjoy similar soils and high rates of fertilization. I bet it would make for vigorously healthy cannabis plants.
 
DCcan

DCcan

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I grow in outdoor planters filled with manure, leaf compost and recycled potting soil.
Usually buy the manure in the summer, let age in the bag till spring.

Biochar and wood ash from the fire pit is good too, ash is mostly calcium carbonate.
Manure and compost has plenty of natural mycos, never needed any extra.
 
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