Your Favorite Soil Mix?

[nyxthenightmother]

Hey guys i hope the grows have been great. I'm about to stop at home depot to buy the ingredients to mix my own soil. I'm kind of sick of how expensive fox farms ocean forest and other premixed brands are. Got any tips for good soil ratios?

 

[7CardBud]

Hey guys i hope the grows have been great. I'm about to stop at home depot to buy the ingredients to mix my own soil. I'm kind of sick of how expensive fox farms ocean forest and other premixed brands are. Got any tips for good soil ratios?

Plain peat bails are jacked to hell as well now.

Anyway....a basic mix that has always worked for me.

3.8ft bale peat
4 pounds pulverized dolamite lime
1 bag Black Kow
1 ft. pearlite
4 pounds Espoma Garden Tone

I usually buy the 36pound bag of Espoma and will top dress or amend containers as needed.

 

[calvin.m16]

If I were to buy a pallet of anything it'd be Mother Earth Coco+Perlite.

I'm running ProMix HP-CC Right now and my drain to waste trays, plumbing and pots are filthy. The runoff is really dirty even 4 months later when I do bi-weekly flushes. Mother Earth Coco/Perlite will have a almost clear runoff or mildly dehydrated piss color vs brown mud water.

 

[go go kid]

If I were to buy a pallet of anything it'd be Mother Earth Coco+Perlite.

I'm running ProMix HP-CC Right now and my drain to waste trays, plumbing and pots are filthy. The runoff is really dirty even 4 months later when I do bi-weekly flushes. Mother Earth Coco/Perlite will have a almost clear runoff or mildly dehydrated piss color vs brown mud water.

is that a fertilized water flush or plain water flush? i got my balls chewed off for sugesting a flush when useing coco

 

[7CardBud]

If I were to buy a pallet of anything it'd be Mother Earth Coco+Perlite.

I'm running ProMix HP-CC Right now and my drain to waste trays, plumbing and pots are filthy. The runoff is really dirty even 4 months later when I do bi-weekly flushes. Mother Earth Coco/Perlite will have a almost clear runoff or mildly dehydrated piss color vs brown mud water.

It must be a badly manufactured batch of Promix. All the mixes I remember using over the last few years have the clear dehydrated piss runoff after the first couple waterings. That includes Berger, Sunshine and Promix.
I always douche the mix out with an initial flush of soapy water, to remove the brown fine particle sludge and to retreat the media with fresh surfactant.

 

[calvin.m16]

is that a fertilized water flush or plain water flush? i got my balls chewed off for sugesting a flush when useing coco

Plain water, once a week, the goal is to remove excess salts and any nutrient/chemical imbalances not add more IMO.
If you don't occasionally run plain water through your much more likely to face pH and nutrient toxicity issues even when feeding normal strengths. Buildup naturally happens.

After a good plain watering the plants seem to start chugging up the nutrient solution again where I've had no Drain to waste pots choke up and just "stop drinking".

I always give plain water for a few days or even a week prior to harvest and I haven't noticed any problems in the larger 10-15 gal containers I prefer growing in.

Yes I have harvested without giving plain water, there is no notable difference in yield or quality. Just less grams of Maxibloom in my bucket.

The guys that say don't flush probably also are the same guys who use little baby sized 1-5 gal pots that can't hold nutrients long enough to sustain the plant for more than a day.

 

[MissinThe90’sStrains]

Check out the organic section of the forum for some soil recipes and ideas. You don’t have to go full organic either. You can make up a fortified soil mix and still lightly feed with nutrients if you want to go that route. There are many paths to success, and you can definitely save yourself some money by making your own mix. A standard mix is roughly: 1/3 peat, 1/3 compost, 1/3 aeration material. Then you can add some dry amendments if you’d like, and let it “cook” for a while for the microbes to help it breakdown and become available for the plant. You can store tubs of this soil mix, ready to plant in. Some people make a mix with enough stuff in it that allows them to water with just plain water for the full grow. Some people make a lighter mix, and then use nutrients. There are multiple options. Congrats on getting away from the expensive bagged stuff, and going the DIY route.

 

[nyxthenightmother]

just realized this plant is a hermie
i don't know what the fuck i'm doing wrong, these plants always look great but now this is the second flower in a row spoiled by a hermie. last was a bag seed but this one was supposed to be from breeder genetics. really shitty outcome.

 

[nyxthenightmother]

hey i had a day to recover and who cares, he's goat food now. I've got a twisted helix from marijuana seed connect on the left and a mystery from up north on the right. right was topped twice but left was topped once

 

[calvin.m16]

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just realized this plant is a hermieView attachment 5310046
i don't know what the fuck i'm doing wrong, these plants always look great but now this is the second flower in a row spoiled by a hermie. last was a bag seed but this one was supposed to be from breeder genetics. really shitty outcome.

It could simply be genetics and not grower error, new seeds I always grow out in 1 gal pots and clone them beforehand, so if they fail I will just toss their clone out and throw the whole root ball and plant into a contractor bag. If they succeed I have a noted clone of it, and I can reproduce the success.

I have made the same mistake of putting lots of care and time into new genetics, usually seeds, putting them in a large container of grow medium just to have to throw it away a couple months later due to herm. Running a bunch of smaller plants and moving them to flower ASAP to see how they perform or if they hermie is ideal practice in my situation.

p.s I've had plants that show female until like 2-5 weeks into 12/12 and I know the feeling, it's plain devastating. I will tell you, those plants need to be trashed and you need to wipe down the tent using some type of sanitizer spray to kill any potential pollen that might seed new females. Don't believe the myth that water kills pollen, if that was true there would be no seeds in nature.

 

[nyxthenightmother]

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It could simply be genetics and not grower error, new seeds I always grow out in 1 gal pots and clone them beforehand, so if they fail I will just toss their clone out and throw the whole root ball and plant into a contractor bag. If they succeed I have a noted clone of it, and I can reproduce the success.

I have made the same mistake of putting lots of care and time into new genetics, usually seeds, putting them in a large container of grow medium just to have to throw it away a couple months later due to herm. Running a bunch of smaller plants and moving them to flower ASAP to see how they perform or if they hermie is ideal practice in my situation.

p.s I've had plants that show female until like 2-5 weeks into 12/12 and I know the feeling, it's plain devastating. I will tell you, those plants need to be trashed and you need to wipe down the tent using some type of sanitizer spray to kill any potential pollen that might seed new females. Don't believe the myth that water kills pollen, if that was true there would be no seeds in nature.

killed that dude immediately and will wipe it all down, luckily i'm not gonna be flowering for a little while i get these girls out. i got my humidity and temp dialed in and can see the new growth looks very healthy. i took a couple of a friends plants in to flower them as a favor and that's that one in the back left

 

[nyxthenightmother]

got the setup fixed after putting in ventilation. the camera feels like added pimpery. i've got these girls 2 days into flower.

 

[Magic Man 540]

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just realized this plant is a hermieView attachment 5310046
i don't know what the fuck i'm doing wrong, these plants always look great but now this is the second flower in a row spoiled by a hermie. last was a bag seed but this one was supposed to be from breeder genetics. really shitty outcome.

Buy quality genetics. You spend money on media and nutrients, and atleast 3 months growing them. Ffs send me an addy and i’ll send you some

 

[nyxthenightmother]

Buy quality genetics. You spend money on media and nutrients, and atleast 3 months growing them. Ffs send me an addy and i’ll send you some

yeah i bought one of the seeds from a seed connect that was credible and the other was a gifted seed from my dad and he bought that shit from "a grower upstate" and that's the only info he'd give me. my fault honestly for using the shit seeds instead of all credible seed banks.

 

[Magic Man 540]

yeah i bought one of the seeds from a seed connect that was credible and the other was a gifted seed from my dad and he bought that shit from "a grower upstate" and that's the only info he'd give me. my fault honestly for using the shit seeds instead of all credible seed banks.

never ever use bag seeds. Yea, there are outliers that grow some great plants sometimes, but 98% of the time they hermie just like their mom

 

[nyxthenightmother]

that's the shit i'm saying, everytime i fuck around i also happen to find out. bag seeds turned out shit every time but these girls are the most resistant beautiful bunch i've had, the one in the back isn't mine.