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What a good soil you can buy at a garden center if a name would help so new at this

Been falling out of love with it somewhat recently, but Fox Farm Happy Frog is usually a pretty decent soil.

Roots Organic

I’ve had good luck with ProMix Organic. Amend it slightly to my liking, but as a base, it’s pretty good. It is peat based and likely similar to FF or Sunshine Mix

I’d recommend peat moss, perlite and worm castings. Amend and top dress with dr earth. Can’t get any easier. I’m typically let down by pre made soils

Recipe for "Good Soil"

Peat:
-7.5cu.ft. Sphagnum Peat Moss (fluffed Up)

Compost:
-1cu.ft. Sheep Manure Compost
-1cu.ft. Mushroom Manure Compost
-1cu.ft Sea Soil Fish Compost
-3cu.ft. Worm Castings

Aeration:
-4cu.ft. Coarse Perlite
-2cu.ft. Rice Hulls
1cu.ft Charged Bio-Char (not traditional airation but...)

Fertilizer Amendments:
10 Cup Kelp Meal
10 Cup Neem Cake
4 Cup Alfalfa

Mineral Amendments:
20 Cups Basalt Rock Dust
10 Cups Oyster Shell Flour
10 Cup Gypsum

Marq1340 said:

Roots Organic

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2 grows ago I did 2 in Roots Organic and 2 in Ocean Forest. The RO sucked big time compared to OF. I did not even need to add nutes in OF until week 2 of flower but RO had to add 1 week before flower. I stick with Happy Frog during veg and transplant to OF feeding at week 2 in Flower when they tell me it is time. I use tap water after 4 grows in reverse osmosis water that made no difference except needing to feed more.

Depends on the area you live. I used Fox Farm Ocean Forest once indoors and battled moisture gnats the entire time.

mtnman2016 said:

2 grows ago I did 2 in Roots Organic and 2 in Ocean Forest. The RO sucked big time compared to OF. I did not even need to add nutes in OF until week 2 of flower but RO had to add 1 week before flower. I stick with Happy Frog during veg and transplant to OF feeding at week 2 in Flower when they tell me it is time. I use tap water after 4 grows in reverse osmosis water that made no difference except needing to feed more.

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Sorry to hear you possibly had a bad experience due to roots organic.

sonewtothis said:

What a good soil you can buy at a garden center if a name would help so new at this

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Where are you from north america or europe or ?

farmingfisherman said:

Depends on the area you live. I used Fox Farm Ocean Forest once indoors and battled moisture gnats the entire time

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Gnats are bad everywhere and I don't have any thing out

sonewtothis said:

Gnats are bad everywhere and I don't have any thing out

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When gnats get bad my first and usually fatal step is top dressing with 1/2+ inches of worm castings. If that don’t work the mosquito corn stuff soak in water I then add perlite to water maybe a bit of soil and top dress that

Has anyone used Epsoma land and sea compost? I think I want to construct something around it.

sonewtothis said:

What a good soil you can buy at a garden center if a name would help so new at this

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I'm using this stuff.

Day 14 of my grow.

25% coco 25% peat 25% perlite and pumice 20% ewc and 5% manure. mix 1 tbsp high p bat guano per gallon of medium and a tsp of rye oat or whole wheat flour for fungi.

topdress with ewc manure and guano mix every week to every 2 weeks depending on your container and plant size. go straight water till harvest.

i set one of my friends up with this setup who had never grown anything in his life and his stuff looks better than mine jk lmao

crimsonecho said:

25% coco 25% peat 25% perlite and pumice 20% ewc and 5% manure. mix 1 tbsp high p bat guano per gallon of medium and a tsp of rye oat or whole wheat flour for fungi.

topdress with ewc manure and guano mix every week to every 2 weeks depending on your container and plant size. go straight water till harvest.

i set one of my friends up with this setup who had never grown anything in his life and his stuff looks better than mine jk lmao

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Does that stay moist for a few days? Coco + Peat would take awhile to dry out unless youre running hps

FatherNelson said:

Does that stay moist for a few days? Coco + Peat would take awhile to dry out unless youre running hps

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i think it takes about 3 days or so but i also built him a setup like mine with huge pots and we went with 4 seedlings in each pot. just way more forgiving than small pots especially for a begginer as long as you let them dry out fairly well.

50% Roots Organic Original and 50% Strawberry Fields is what im trying this year and sofar they love it.

sonewtothis said:

What a good soil you can buy at a garden center if a name would help so new at this

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As long as you stick with _potting_ soil (not top soil, garden soil, etc.) you'll be okay for cannabis with pretty much any brand you'll find at a garden store. The primary ingredient in Promix, and almost all other potting soils, is peat.

I use Sta-Green (which is a Lowe's brand) and Miracle-Gro, because very frequently it's on sale and it's worked out okay for me for many, many years:



It's easy to get overwhelmed reading all the technical jargon on these cannabis forums, but if you just keep it simple and don't buy into the marketing jargon, cannabis is very easy to grow.

As long as you don't love it to death by over-watering / over fertilizing, or trying to micromanage everything about the environment and trying to make everything perfect, you'll do just fine.