Ideas on soil grow?

[Mellow-fellow]

Hi all,

I need your help and advice please. I want to understand the best options around soil grows. If it's just a few plants, I was thinking of using bagged top soil from the local green house basic tap water and a two stage option on nutes like b'cuzz... I would love to hear your input though.. my goal is to keep it simple so I can learn. If you have easy options or substitution ideas, please make a suggestion.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Holie214]

I'm still on my first grow...so take this with a grain of salt. I didn't want to mix soil or have to feed the whole time so I am trying In Kind soil in the base of the pots with Dr Earth (black label) on top. The In Kind website explained that you don't need to add any nutrients to the soil except water so I figured I couldn't mess that up. So far so good. I'm almost to five weeks and the only issues I had was a little bit of yellowing...turns out I wasn't watering enough and that seemed to stop once I topped off the pots so the water came out into the trays.

 

[Indacouch]

If your brand new to growing I suggest fox farm ocean forest soil with there trio of nutes Grow Big,Big Bloom, and Tiger bloom....the soil has enough food for several weeks and those nutes can be used at quarter strength.....this was my go to for a long time and I grew some awesome plants with this simple bagged soil and trio of nutes ......if your starting from seed I suggest some light warrior seedling starter also fox farms .....decent sized clones will be fine going rite into the ocean forest ......very simple and you can learn and build off that very easily ......NOTE--- Big Bloom can be used at regular recommended dosage if you decide to go this route ...Grow Big and Tiger Bloom should be started at quarter strength like I mentioned above .....if nothing else look into it and GL

 

[gunjamonster]

2 five gallon buckets full peat moss
1 five gallon bucket Well rotted horse manure or compost or worm castings
1 and 1/2 cup Garden lime
1 large coffee can full of perlite ( Equal To 12 Cups)
1 handful of Epsom salts


Now this is the basic mix you can add your own rock dust, bone meal, blood meal,etc to this if you want! I had great success with this recipe however your results will differ with the type and quality of the compost used!

 

[Greenthumbskunk]

2 five gallon buckets full peat moss
1 five gallon bucket Well rotted horse manure or compost or worm castings
1 and 1/2 cup Garden lime
1 large coffee can full of perlite ( Equal To 12 Cups)
1 handful of Epsom salts


Now this is the basic mix you can add your own rock dust, bone meal, blood meal,etc to this if you want! I had great success with this recipe however your results will differ with the type and quality of the compost used!

Couldnt agree with this more. Same mixture for me but i use chicken poo and about a gal of it.

 

[Chunky Stool]

If your brand new to growing I suggest fox farm ocean forest soil with there trio of nutes Grow Big,Big Bloom, and Tiger bloom....the soil has enough food for several weeks and those nutes can be used at quarter strength.....this was my go to for a long time and I grew some awesome plants with this simple bagged soil and trio of nutes ......if your starting from seed I suggest some light warrior seedling starter also fox farms .....decent sized clones will be fine going rite into the ocean forest ......very simple and you can learn and build off that very easily ......NOTE--- Big Bloom can be used at regular recommended dosage if you decide to go this route ...Grow Big and Tiger Bloom should be started at quarter strength like I mentioned above .....if nothing else look into it and GL

You really can't go wrong with fox farm. I know several people who use their soil & bottled nutes and love em.
I still love ocean forest soil but amend it for larger plants.

 

[Indacouch]

You really can't go wrong with fox farm. I know several people who use their soil & bottled nutes and love em.
I still love ocean forest soil but amend it for larger plants.

I always water in cal mag with ffof ....seems the last few years it's been lacking ....thought it was just me until a few friends who live near me were having the same issue ((big plants)) .....I actually just started to try and ammend and reuse my ffof this year ....havnt grown anything in it yet,,but will see how it goes .....shit gets expensive to buy every year and just throw away ....so I kept a few yards from last year and I'm trying my hand at it ....just finished mixing the last batch today actually....I used DTE products to ammend followed with lime and EWC as well ....so will see

Hopefully all goes well

 

[714steadyeddie]

I always water in cal mag with ffof ....seems the last few years it's been lacking ....thought it was just me until a few friends who live near me were having the same issue ((big plants)) .....I actually just started to try and ammend and reuse my ffof this year ....havnt grown anything in it yet,,but will see how it goes .....shit gets expensive to buy every year and just throw away ....so I kept a few yards from last year and I'm trying my hand at it ....just finished mixing the last batch today actually....I used DTE products to ammend followed with lime and EWC as well ....so will see

Hopefully all goes well

That's my plan exactly , I have like 25+ gallons of FFoF being used. I'm amending slowly now, and gonna reuse after this run

 

[Indacouch]

That's my plan exactly , I have like 25+ gallons of FFoF being used. I'm amending slowly now, and gonna reuse after this run

Good luck ....like anything else there's guna be a learning curve I'm sure

 

[H8R16]

2 five gallon buckets full peat moss
1 five gallon bucket Well rotted horse manure or compost or worm castings
1 and 1/2 cup Garden lime
1 large coffee can full of perlite ( Equal To 12 Cups)
1 handful of Epsom salts


Now this is the basic mix you can add your own rock dust, bone meal, blood meal,etc to this if you want! I had great success with this recipe however your results will differ with the type and quality of the compost used!

What would you recommend with amendments. What are the most important ones i would need to begin with?
Thx

 

[Chunky Stool]

In the recipe above, I'd replace the lime with oyster shell flour. Also replace epsom with langbeinite. Then you can just add something with a high NP like fish meal (8-6-0) plus some micros like azomite and be good to go.