Soil
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inth3shadowz
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For my soil plants, I like Coast of Maine Harbor Blend...it's fairly low in nutes and you can simply throw in some dr earth or Gaia green blah blah blah, and be good
speedwell68
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What country are you in?
Look up coots mix. You can make a significant amount for fairly cheap and almost all of it should be available in a farm/feed store or home Depot type store. if you really want to grow in a soil though the better question should be where you're going to get good compost.
That's assuming you mean growing in actual soil and not using a bag of promix and Jack's/ff/gh etc. If you're using bottled nutrients just grab any bale of peat and a couple bags of perlite and mix, some optional amendments that helped me while I was still running hydro would be small amounts of kelp/yucca/gypsum
DoobieDoobs
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I recommend you, to build your own soil mix.
Any good mix of soil will more or less be as follows,
for a 10 gallon pot:
peat or leaf mold 4 gallons
earthworm castings 1 gallon
compost 3 gallons
perlite or equivalent 2 gallons
and get some good amendments like kelp meal, fish meal, bone meal, crab meal, etc...
I dont know where do you live, but the important thing is that you get more or less these ingredients to make your own soil mix, let it sit for 30 days, keep it moist, and you should be good to go.
Look up for more soil recipes in this website, or internet in general, in order for you to have a better idea of what goes into a good soil mix, and the different types of amendments you can add.
Any good mix of soil will more or less be as follows,
for a 10 gallon pot:
peat or leaf mold 4 gallons
earthworm castings 1 gallon
compost 3 gallons
perlite or equivalent 2 gallons
and get some good amendments like kelp meal, fish meal, bone meal, crab meal, etc...
I dont know where do you live, but the important thing is that you get more or less these ingredients to make your own soil mix, let it sit for 30 days, keep it moist, and you should be good to go.
Look up for more soil recipes in this website, or internet in general, in order for you to have a better idea of what goes into a good soil mix, and the different types of amendments you can add.
crimsonecho
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good base with ph buffered peat maybe 10-20% coco too throw it in a tub add basalt dust, zeolite, activated charcoal or biochar, wormcastings (also compost worms would be briliant), manure, stinging nettles, fruit and vegetable scraps, oats and a nice compost tea then cover it losely with plastic let it cook for a month (the pile should really warm up if not add some cardboard into the pile) turn it over periodically and here you go you have top notch soil at your disposal
GreenestBasterd
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COOTS all day long if it were me.
Jjgrow420
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Or bx. I use bx and cut it further with coarse peat.
CBDNerds
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My favorite soil starting out was honestly traditional high-quality potting soil! I used this guide my first time growing and it helped me tons. Now I use coco coir.
