[Canniwhatsis]

taged.

Originally Posted by silverhazefiend

+1 for fox farm being to Heavy ..Idk if they changed the formula but a few yrs ago it was pretty light and airy ..still heavy tho ..after my last run ..I practically had mud leftover ..I like my soil airy so 30% perlite is a must for me ..maybe 40% depending on how big the plant might get and how many waterings it's gonna get ..

I would say that the OF i've been getting runs between 27 and 35 percent perlite, depending on exact composition of that batch, it definitely isn't turning into mud as you fellas have been describing, my pots end up almost as saturated with roots as the plants grown in Royal Gold Tupur, perhaps just slightly less so, but that Tupur is some amazing stuff.

Plants are being shifted into flower on Monday, April 1st, and no it isn't a joke


The Ocean Forest examples remain ahead in overall growth, but since being moved into larger containers the examples in the other two mediums have sped up a bit, making flowering them all at the same time feasible, YAY!


The Amazon Bloom examples are healthy and happy, and catching up with their Ocean Forest counterparts.


The Black Gold examples have outgrown the tendency for lower leaf yellowing that was present when they were in smaller containers, they were also not topped so as to allow their vertical growth to even out with the other two sets, they were topped shortly after this picture and if they don't quite look as happy as i'd like I may push back the flowering date to the 2nd or 3rd of April.

Stay tuned! It's getting good!

The game is afoot, all 9 example plants have been placed in a flowering room!

[Canniwhatsis]

looking forward to the show!

[Biosynthesis]

Thank you for the great controlled experiment! Im sure lots of people are going to be reading this one.

[herbaless]

Very cool thanks SooperSmurph

Progress continues, the plants are just about to start seriously spitting out pistils, so they'll receive their last dose of heavy chems (Eagle 20, Floramite) in a couple days, leaving weeks 2-9 of flower free of any sprays besides Green Cure and Mighty Wash.

The room they're in is currently undercrowded, so the plants are in pairs under the 1000W lights rather than groups of three or four, resulting in the images you see in which the groups are mixed, however, clear labeling shall keep the data pure and helpful.

[KAT]

Great reading,thank a lot.happy trails

[2 Legal Co]

Originally Posted by SooperSmurph

My main gripe with the Fox Farm lies in consistency also, far more unprocessed wood chips and unmixed clumps than I like to see in premium potting soil.

Amazon Bloom also has a nicer consistency than Ocean Forest, but it contains no perlite at all.
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It has little to no unprocessed bits, and has that rich loamy smell you associate with soil that has been thoroughly composted, whereas the Black Gold smells mostly like Peat Moss and little else.

Black Gold is a bit softer to the touch than Ocean Forest, probably because of the extra peat moss, it also has a much lower amount of perlite, i'd describe the level as the same as miracle gro soils which feature perlite, not quite where i'd want it for proper aeration and drainage.
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It shares the problem with Ocean Forest of a few too many pieces of unprocessed wood in the mix.

I'll need to add some perlite to both mixes in order to make the experiment fair, just to the same level as present in Ocean Forest out of the bag, shown here:
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SS;
Risking the exposure of my ignorance.... why are you adjusting the mix of the soils, when doing a comparison?

It seems almost as crazy (to me), as doing a feeding program, while testing organically proportioned mixes?

I'm liking what you are doing in this experiment..... just trying to understand what it is exactly you are 'testing'.

Give me some help in understanding what the testing parameters are. I don't want to seem trollish here... just don't get it.

thx
2lc