dreadlock
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...After 3 year or so, growing with Coco Hempy buckets with good results i'm making the change over to growing in a fully organic culture.
Thanks to the guys from the 'living soil' section for all the great detailed info, you know who you are..
I'd like to keep a track of the journey with a thread keeping the info together in one place too..
bare with any silly questions for now please as i've always been studying plants in hydro, trying to bring back to life all the organic info i studied once upon a time..something to work towards, deff not expecting to get it over night..
firstly is there a big difference in pre made soil mix or a home made mix a part from the costs involved? quality wise is my main concern..
I know guano is great for taste & you get diff types for all stages which is ideal however apparently not environmentally safe so curious to know if their any alternatives without compromising quality if what they say is true..
already bitten by the organics bugs and in the process of brewing a ewc,great white,molasses tea for the first time finally for hempy buckets i've been running with,once a week.. going well
need help from growers with experience using these mixes, i don't have the privilege of knowing any other growers personally to chat with and i'd really like to get into organics without having to spends years of trial and error like i have with hempy/coco, nutes etc.. hopefully get everything i need to switch over before winter is upon us..
The plants will be scrogged and in veg for around 6-7 weeks, can't decide on 15 liter or 19 liter pots? guessing with soil you need bigger pots?
thanks for looking.. all advice/opinions welcome
dreads
:quick update:
will be going with LC's soiless mix #1:
5 parts Canadian Sphagnum Peat or Coir or Pro-Moss
3 parts perlite
2 parts worm castings or mushroom compost or home made compost
dolomite lime 2 tablespoons per gallon
Nutrient recipe RECIPE #3 (Burnz101 favorite)
Guano Tea and Kelp mix for seedlings, veg & flower.
Veg mix-
1/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano (PSG)
1/3 cup High N Bat Guano (Mexican)
1/3 cup Earth Worm Castings (EWC)
Mix with water @ 1 cup of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Maxicrop or Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed.
5 tsp. Black Strap Molasses
water with every 3rd watering.
Flowering nute tea mix:
2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano
2/3 cup Earth Worm Castings
2/3 cup High P Guano (Indonesian or Jamaican)
Mix with water @ 2 cups of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Maxicrop or Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed.
5 tsp. Black Strap Molasses
water with every watering.
for indica/sative which require different feeds ill just adjust the amounts if it requires more or less along the way..
if anyone has any experience using this method before please let me know how it went if anything needs to be supplemented will save me some time and hassle..
hope anyone else looking for info finds this useful..
keep you posted on how it goes
over n out
Thanks to the guys from the 'living soil' section for all the great detailed info, you know who you are..
I'd like to keep a track of the journey with a thread keeping the info together in one place too..
bare with any silly questions for now please as i've always been studying plants in hydro, trying to bring back to life all the organic info i studied once upon a time..something to work towards, deff not expecting to get it over night..
firstly is there a big difference in pre made soil mix or a home made mix a part from the costs involved? quality wise is my main concern..
I know guano is great for taste & you get diff types for all stages which is ideal however apparently not environmentally safe so curious to know if their any alternatives without compromising quality if what they say is true..
already bitten by the organics bugs and in the process of brewing a ewc,great white,molasses tea for the first time finally for hempy buckets i've been running with,once a week.. going well
need help from growers with experience using these mixes, i don't have the privilege of knowing any other growers personally to chat with and i'd really like to get into organics without having to spends years of trial and error like i have with hempy/coco, nutes etc.. hopefully get everything i need to switch over before winter is upon us..
The plants will be scrogged and in veg for around 6-7 weeks, can't decide on 15 liter or 19 liter pots? guessing with soil you need bigger pots?
thanks for looking.. all advice/opinions welcome
dreads
:quick update:
will be going with LC's soiless mix #1:
5 parts Canadian Sphagnum Peat or Coir or Pro-Moss
3 parts perlite
2 parts worm castings or mushroom compost or home made compost
dolomite lime 2 tablespoons per gallon
Nutrient recipe RECIPE #3 (Burnz101 favorite)
Guano Tea and Kelp mix for seedlings, veg & flower.
Veg mix-
1/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano (PSG)
1/3 cup High N Bat Guano (Mexican)
1/3 cup Earth Worm Castings (EWC)
Mix with water @ 1 cup of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Maxicrop or Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed.
5 tsp. Black Strap Molasses
water with every 3rd watering.
Flowering nute tea mix:
2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano
2/3 cup Earth Worm Castings
2/3 cup High P Guano (Indonesian or Jamaican)
Mix with water @ 2 cups of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
To that 5 gallons of tea add:
5 tbs. Maxicrop or Neptune's Harvest liquid seaweed.
5 tsp. Black Strap Molasses
water with every watering.
for indica/sative which require different feeds ill just adjust the amounts if it requires more or less along the way..
if anyone has any experience using this method before please let me know how it went if anything needs to be supplemented will save me some time and hassle..
hope anyone else looking for info finds this useful..
keep you posted on how it goes
over n out
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