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Since a VA guy aluded to acting crazy and smoking... I love my VaporGenie from Blackburgs VA, and it really feels like less pollutants going to the knoggen, and I make fewer big mistakes later.

Hi TeaTree nice to hear from you. Yeah I bought dried whole sphagnum plants. Similar plant matter is the primary ingredient in most all soil mixes. Different varieties sold at various levels of chopping, compressing, decomposing, and with various amendments. All moss is not rendered equally -...

Ah ha this explains it! You are using ground peat moss, not whole dried sphagnum plants. There is a big difference (in price too). I tried to explain in the original post. Thanks for chiming in. I believe the stuff you have has started to decompose and feeds your plants.

In nature the fert is in the soil, still there all the same. I don't get the joke. Sorry I didn't state before my values are PPM not percentage. Maybe that is why you were shocked. 100 PPM nitrogen is actually modest (again from what I've read)...

Yeah, I am a complete novice. I had success one time with soil, might ditch the hydro idea. About the nutes, just seems strange that a 5 inch plant can grow out of just a seed. Ok Sir, what day after germ do you start feeding and at what levels?

Thanks doobnVA! That NPK ratio is what I read recommended for the first 2 weeks. This is hydro right? There is nothing in the medium, so how does the plant grow? I know the sprout forms from the carbs in the seed, but once the green comes out isn't it PSing and needing nutes from the soil?

Basically it seems like the moss dries out too uniformly. For a short plant there is not enough space between the upper dry zone and lower wet zone. Maybe adding a lot more filler to the moss will help.

I tried 8 10 liter trash cans (filled with whole sphagnum and a little perlite). They had the bottom 1/8 cut out and replaced with tight mesh net for air and water movement. They were sitting in a shallow reservoir. It didn’t go too well. Many died b/c the moss held so much water. There was very...