Any good organic nutrients from Lowes/Home Depot?

Hello, fellow cultivators.

I have no connection for Advanced Nutrients nearby. The closest retailer of their products is like 100 miles away from me!

I was wondering if anyone else has the same situation, where they could only get decent nutrients and organic feed from places like Lowes, Home Depot or any lawn and garden place?

Thank you for any feedback.


Toke on

-B

Order from Ebay, You can get great prices, shipped quick and very discreet(Private Listing)

If you are wanting to go organic I seriously suggest reading this thread, especially the 1st 100 pages or so.

Recycled Organic Living Soil (ROLS) and No Till Thread

The basics are not throwing away your soil and giving up bottled nutes entirely.


I have been following that thread plus the AACT thread and just bought a bunch of stuff from Home Depot a few days ago.

My base mix is all Home Depot

Alaskan Peat [coco too]
Ecoscraps Compost
Perlite [ other alternatives, Rice Hulls, Lava Rock, Pumice]

This is my organic base mix, 33% of each or just mix 1cf of each to make 3cf each time. Water down with AACT and Aloe/Coconut Water and let sit for at least 2 weeks.

Most will recommend just amending with:

Rock Dusts 1 0z / per CF [Azomite, Glacial, Ebay Specials]
Kelp Meal 4 oz / per CF
Crab Meal 4 oz / per CF
Alfalfa Meal 4 oz / per CF

That's it for the soil.

I water with one tea: Seed Sprout Tea and my own Fulvic concoction [Some use BioAg] [2x week]
and then another tea is just Distastic Malt Powder 1 tbsp / gallon and Fresh Aloe and 1/2 cup/gallon of Coconut WATER. [2x week]

Plain waterings in between and top dress with up to 2" of compost a few weeks into flower.

That's it.
Completely organic and the boyz in the ROLS thread go off on their gear.


Other things people add that you may find at the Depot:
Fish Hydrolysate [Not Emulsion!]
Blood Meal
Bone Meal [Saw some from Scotts, that was "organic"]

I am using smaller pots, then most recommend for ROLS, but after flower, I cut out the stalk, re-amend the pots, topdress with compost and lest sit for @ least 4 weeks.

Soil is good to go for another round. I will shortly be working on 3rd rounds. No need to by new soil, just cheap ass amendments instead. Plus I am LAZY

Good growing

Get some maxsea from mail order.......only thing non organic in it is the urea.

Organics is good and all but not everyone wants to or has the space to do organics in. I did find teas to be udeful, but damn did I have a hard time making them consistent from one batch to another. I miss my old outdoor organic garden, but indoors can be another story.


Miracle Grow. Seriously. Many logs on here showing you can grow excellent cannabis in miracle grow.

Dont they sell DynaGro at those retailers?

my local HD carrys Epsoma

and manure

Not that I've used Dynagrow, but that may be a better choice based on what I've seen. I'd like to try it out one of these days, just want more space.

Pretty sure Dynagro is synthetic but Dr. Earth has a great organic potting soil and they have pre packaged organic ferts for top dressing and a general purpose organic liquid. The black bag of potting soil is the better soil but you will need to cut it with perlite because its thick as hell. They have a great, inexpensive, easy to follow line that works great

Go to "DanTheGrowMan.com cheapest around (discountadvanced nntrienrs.com) Dan says "cut the middle man out, also free shipping - for no-organic try budswell ans super Tea sub-post to be the best organic

LIBERTYCHICKEN said:

my local HD carrys Epsoma

and manure

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Espoma is more than excellent and totally organic.

Wet

Wetdog said:

Espoma is more than excellent and totally organic.

Wet

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Agreed. Espoma Garden Tone is an excellent fertilizer. Fairly complete and even contains some beneficials.

I use, Age Old Organics.
It has the highest NPK ratios I've seen in a liquid organic.
It costs around $35-$40 a gal. I use between 1/4 oz and 1/2 per gallon.
They sell several products and I have found it at several nurseries here in my area. They originated in Boulder Co., but it is produced in Illinois now.

http://http://www.ageoldorganics.com/

lowes and HD carry a product called Morbloom, so far pretty good results during flowering.

I agreed with some posters regard espoma products are excellent fertilizer.

If you re going for sythenic then i would go for Miracle Gro (veg) from start to finish, make sure you amend your soil with dolomite (espoma's garden lime) then you should be fine with grow

Espoma if you can find it! My local nursery has it and next year I am stocking up!! My local nursery is closer to me then the big stores and has GREAT prices. As for fertilizers, check their aisle. Anything with OMRI cert is good. Look at the n-p-k numbers too so you get an idea of how much you are putting in the soil. Home depot has Alaska fish fertilizer, which is what I am using and it's good but REAKS like fish!

MG organic soil is great too, you just need to shift out the big pieces of bark and such so they don't block root growth

I hope dynagrow works as good as everyone says it does

littletunealright said:

Hello, fellow cultivators.

I have no connection for Advanced Nutrients nearby. The closest retailer of their products is like 100 miles away from me!

I was wondering if anyone else has the same situation, where they could only get decent nutrients and organic feed from places like Lowes, Home Depot or any lawn and garden place?

Thank you for any feedback.


Toke on

-B

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I get my fish emulsion from Lowes /Home Depot . Works great for veg phase. Shop e-bay for a high Phosphorous
fertilizer such as Bat Guano for flowering . My SSH x J.Herer 2 weeks in, after her last dose of Fish emulsion _~ Happy Growing!

I picked up a fish emultion and seaweed extract at rona (lowes). Worked pretty good for veg. Using GO now.