MrShpongle
Member
I've recently been chatting with an old timey OG grower. We've traded some genetics and talked shop, etc. When I quizzed him about his process (soils, nutes, amendments, etc.) he blew me away. He says that he uses nothing more than overwintered horse manure - that's it. He plants clones directly into 100% manure (no perlite/compost/ewc/anything) and gives them nothing but water right up until harvest. I thought he was pulling my leg until he gave me some teenage clones in 2 liter bottles and lo and behold he was serious.
Has anyone ever tried this? His plants looked great, and life would be a whole lot simpler if the only thing I ever needed to do was pour some R/o water into them. In addition, he uses way smaller pots than I would think would be possible. He says that because the manure is so much denser than potting soil (it is at least 2-3x as heavy) there are more nutes per cubic foot so he needs less to accomplish the yield.
Has anyone ever tried this? His plants looked great, and life would be a whole lot simpler if the only thing I ever needed to do was pour some R/o water into them. In addition, he uses way smaller pots than I would think would be possible. He says that because the manure is so much denser than potting soil (it is at least 2-3x as heavy) there are more nutes per cubic foot so he needs less to accomplish the yield.