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Rogo
Is Foxfarm Original, Foxfarm Ocean Forest, and Foxfarm Light Warrior, dolmite lime, and pearlite a solid soil mix and what nutes should I use with this mix and when? Thanks for any suggestions
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Greenlife1
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Yes there all good. if you want to mix all that it will work well.
Nutes are personal preference. Are you going organic?? or synthetic??
I would try to keep it simple as possible.
Nutes are personal preference. Are you going organic?? or synthetic??
I would try to keep it simple as possible.
...if you're new at this i'd suggest straight coco hempy buckets, KISS style.
...i suggest this because it is brain-dead easy to run and extremely easy to achieve consistent, repeatable results.
soil can be very unforgiving for the inexperienced.
...this is old news that shows a couple White Rhino's grown in 2liter Coke bottle coco hempy 'buckets' under a 400CMH that yielded nearly 2zipz each so almost a quarter elbow in 4 liters of coco. (they were fed nothing but MaxiBloom from rooted clone right up to the flush)
peace, bozo
...i suggest this because it is brain-dead easy to run and extremely easy to achieve consistent, repeatable results.
soil can be very unforgiving for the inexperienced.
...this is old news that shows a couple White Rhino's grown in 2liter Coke bottle coco hempy 'buckets' under a 400CMH that yielded nearly 2zipz each so almost a quarter elbow in 4 liters of coco. (they were fed nothing but MaxiBloom from rooted clone right up to the flush)
peace, bozo
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Rogo
I'm new but not a newbie... My last grow was soil and I used general hydro nutes. I had a huge, wonderful potent healthy yield off three plants. I want to go more organic I've mixed my above soil mixture and I'm going to supplement watering with thrive alive and a smart tea of seaweed, natural bacteria fungi and sugar cane molasses.
Does this sound good to y'all?
Does this sound good to y'all?
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Rogo
I have also decided to use a variety of earth juice in bloom phase... Any thoughts on this guys?
The OrigF/clred
Member
any chance you ran a thread on that grow?
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The_Core
The Hempy Bucket Thread started years back on ICMAG and they made it a sticky. Using perlite at first. Transformed and now alot of guys are doing Hempy Style with coco or a combination of coco and perlite. I was reading up on it, I think there is over 3,000 posts so you might want to jump forward a bit.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=98419
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=98419
Your mix sounds good. The lime raises ph does not lower it, in case that is important. I no longer use it as my water is 8.5 ph!
My soil mix is ffof with 20% chunky perlite and 10% ewc, that is for veg. Flower soil is the same with Rainbow Bloom Mix 2 tbsp per gallon added. Just water it no added nutes.
I would say that is as simple as hempy buckets but the hempy will yield more. May try hempy in the future but I like going organic and just grow for myself.
My soil mix is ffof with 20% chunky perlite and 10% ewc, that is for veg. Flower soil is the same with Rainbow Bloom Mix 2 tbsp per gallon added. Just water it no added nutes.
I would say that is as simple as hempy buckets but the hempy will yield more. May try hempy in the future but I like going organic and just grow for myself.
sorry man but i haven't done a thread in at least a few years, i'm a lazy phuck by nature so all the documentation got to be too big a pain in my ass, lol.
the truth is i used to run threads when i was here learning how to grow, now i'm here trying to help others learn and pay back a little for the help i got when i was new so i'm mostly in other peoples threads trying to help out if i can.
...i'd be happy to answer questions and/or share some links with you if you give me an idea what you're interested in, i know where some VERY nice threads are hiding, lost in the fullness of time, as it were.
peace, bozo
surfguitar
Member
I would avoid any sort of foxfarm soil at all costs. The quality isn't there with this soil anymore and I've heard the same from other folks, it's garbage.
Do yourself a favor and make a similar mix yourself with peatmoss/compost/drainage/lime amendmants and possibly stuff like neem/kelp/crab/alfalfa meal. It will be less money and way higher quality.
Do yourself a favor and make a similar mix yourself with peatmoss/compost/drainage/lime amendmants and possibly stuff like neem/kelp/crab/alfalfa meal. It will be less money and way higher quality.
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Eureka Springs Organics
Mix your own soil, and have a higher quality soil that costs less. Check out this blog post for a beginners guide.
http://eurekaspringsorganics.com/how-to-make-your-own-organic-potting-soil
If you need any help let me know.
http://eurekaspringsorganics.com/how-to-make-your-own-organic-potting-soil
If you need any help let me know.
The OrigF/clred
Member
tks - appreciate
appreciate but TC covered it - i was interested in the hempy grow - it's not the first time i'd seen you suggest it so i figured i'd take a look at what it was about. I'm still in the "pre-virgin" state, helping a bud with his grow, trying to learn the pitfalls etc
...yeah, i advocate for coco hempy buckets KISS style for a few reasons, not least of which is the yields which are pretty impressive.
...another reason is the economy, running coco hempy's KISS style is one of the least expensive ways to grow there is.
...the third and maybe the main reason i advocate for coco hempy's, KISS style, especially for new growers, is the simplicity and reliability.
...when you are new and learning your chops there seems to be just a mountain of shit you have to learn and so doing things as simply as possible in the beginning really makes learning much easier, ...MUCH easier.
...anyway, here are a couple other links i think you might could read and if you do you won't be sorry.
...this first is to the original 'hempy' posting a new thread to discuss his upgrading to coco, ...don't take everything he says as gospel, he is only a man after all, ...the technique is so simple that once you begin growing hempy style you will quickly become an armchair expert.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?threadid=147954Coco Hempy style.
...and this is to the KISS thread so you'll know what i mean when i say KISS in case you don't already know.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=191645*The K.I.S.S. Method*
good luck, bozo
surfguitar
Member
Do you have to PH your nutes justanother? I did hempy bukets and have done coco grows before with pretty good results but I absolutley hated having to PH anything, definitly not KISS imo 
That's the main thing holding me back from trying coco again but I might actually give it a try with general organic nutes as those come out at a good PH for coco out of the bottle with my water.
That's the main thing holding me back from trying coco again but I might actually give it a try with general organic nutes as those come out at a good PH for coco out of the bottle with my water.
...i DO test my ph occasionally but not very often.Do you have to PH your nutes justanother? I did hempy bukets and have done coco grows before with pretty good results but I absolutley hated having to PH anything, definitly not KISS imo
i feed with Jack's Pro Hydro combined with their calcium nitrate and that is ALL i feed so no additives to skew the ph.
plus, i don't use a meter to test my ph, i just use one of those drip testers where you compare the color of your results to the charts to determine your ph, ...i shoot for a nice piss yellow and call it a day.
...anyway, because i do things so simply and consistently, i only need to test for ph and ppms to be sure i'm still in my healthy range, ...say once a month or even less, i really am a lazy phuck, lol.
...the beauty of running things simply like this is that once you don't have to stress over HOW to grow, you can begin to relax and start learning to read your plants and when you begin to do this you really start feeling like a grower, ...like you really have a handle on things.
...so yeah, lol, coco hempy buckets, KISS style FTW!
peace, bozo
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surfguitar
Member
That's what I was doing when I found the most success with my coco grow, using the dropper and getting a nice yellow color.
Honestly tho it sucked compared to the ease and simplicity I have recently making my own carefully picked soil mix. Still haven't gone a full round yet but the plants are so healthy and grow so vigouriously, I never ever have to even consider PH or PPMs. Just mix up cheaply made or wild harvested herbs, compost teas or sprouted teas every once in awhile. If the no till works out like I hope, it should decrease my cost drastically versus always having to buy new bags of medium and bottles.
Just my 2 cents, I still wanna try a couple 5 gals of coco with my leftover bottled nutes
Honestly tho it sucked compared to the ease and simplicity I have recently making my own carefully picked soil mix. Still haven't gone a full round yet but the plants are so healthy and grow so vigouriously, I never ever have to even consider PH or PPMs. Just mix up cheaply made or wild harvested herbs, compost teas or sprouted teas every once in awhile. If the no till works out like I hope, it should decrease my cost drastically versus always having to buy new bags of medium and bottles.
Just my 2 cents, I still wanna try a couple 5 gals of coco with my leftover bottled nutes
