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Age Old Organics.
If you're going to use that combo of mediums, you can add One dry organic ingredient and then just add water. No need for anything else.
Go to Home Depot or similar big box / garden store and get a 40 lb bag of Milorganite. It's completely organic and makes plants grow like crazy.
For a 5 gallon bucket, place the pearlite and vermiculite in a bucket with holes in the bottom and pour a gallon or so of water through it. Then pour it out onto a tarp and mix it back and forth. The wet particles will distribute themselves evenly, which they Don't do when mixed dry.
Then slowly add four cups of Milorganite, and mix again in the tarp. Add the Coir, and mix again.
Put it in the bucket, plant the clone/start, and water as needed.
An occasional hit of liquid seaweed, and/or dilute molasses, could be used if you think it'll help ... but that's about all.
Good luck.
I went with purvian guano, jamaican guano, and mexican guano for my teas, add a little earth worm castings / kelp / liquid karma and you're plants will love you. buy some beneficial bacteria too..
all the recipes for the teas are in the organics for beginners thread, customize them to optimize your grow.
For short harvested indoor crops, I find it hard to find an organic that is available as any salt-based nute, and after a couple of side by side runs, I'm ditching organics indoors.
I did GH 3 part vs Floranova my first run in coco, and AN Sensi 2 part vs Pura Vida organics the second run. The salt based nutes yielded better both times, and quality was not diminished. The organic stuff smells a little stronger when fresh cut, but after they're cured you can't tell them apart.
Biggest difference in the end, my wallet was a lot lighter with organics and I had less product at the end to make up for it.
Lose/Lose for me. Your mileage may vary.
For short harvested indoor crops, I find it hard to find an organic that is available as any salt-based nute, and after a couple of side by side runs, I'm ditching organics indoors. ... The salt based nutes yielded better both times, and quality was not diminished. The organic stuff smells a little stronger when fresh cut, but after they're cured you can't tell them apart.
Biggest difference in the end, my wallet was a lot lighter with organics and I had less product at the end to make up for it.
Lose/Lose for me. Your mileage may vary.
You do know "milorganite" is made of human sewage, right? BC
It's not surprising that hydro doesn't get better results with the rancid "organic" swill that pours from Satans pecker straight to the shelf of the Grow-store.
Organic soil has a lot more potential, even in short-term S.O.G. grows.
Using inert media like Pearlite & Coir with a Real organic like Milorganite is a hybrid grow where complete nutrition is combined with great root aeration . It would be interesting to see a Coir/Milorganite plant in a drip-irrigated or hempy style bucket, side by side with a commercial hydro fert-flush plant.
WHOA! easy on the molasses there, buddy! Dr. Elaine Ingham's EWC aerated tea recipie calls for 2 Tbs. molasses in a 50 GALLON brew. Too much sugar makes the populations skyrocket, then decrease and even go anaerobic in 24 hours. I use about 4 TBS. molasses at the start of my 35 gallon brew, then add about 8 more TBS. at the end of brewing process just before watering.i would go with compost tea. i'm not growing at this time, but i only used tea, and i used it every watering. i used 2cups WC, about 1cup of composted cow manure, a dash of blood,bone and kelp meal and a healthy dose of molasses maybe a half a cup, didnt really measure, in 5 gallons of water and bubbled it for a day or 2 and my plants loved it.
no earth juice fans here?