New Nutrient search

Im looking to change Nutrients, I have used Botanicare products for my first grow (it was given to me). What is a good nutrient line to use? I am in soil and indoor. I stick with organic, I have even made compost tea a few times. Im wanting something for VEG and BLOOM. I have considered Humbolt products but still unsure.

Build your own soil mix. Look up Cootz soil recipe . Dont use any bottle line. They're not organic. They use chemical ph stabilizers that are harmful to soil microbes like calcium nitrates, potassium sulfate or phosphoric acid.

hyroot said:

Build your own soil mix. Look up Cootz soil recipe . Dont use any bottle line. They're not organic. They use chemical ph stabilizers that are harmful to soil microbes like calcium nitrates, potassium sulfate or phosphoric acid.

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Im way to new to this growing to build my own soil yet but I hope to be able to in the next couple grows. We have an outfit just an 1 1/2 hrs south of me that grows comercialy and they make their own soil and sell it. Thats what im using this grow.

Wrong forum for nute lines everyones gonna tell you to build your own soil and buy organic meals like kelp and bone...ROLS thread has tons of recipes

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All-in said:

Im way to new to this growing to build my own soil yet but I hope to be able to in the next couple grows. We have an outfit just an 1 1/2 hrs south of me that grows comercialy and they make their own soil and sell it. Thats what im using this grow.

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I like to use bio ag tm-7, protek and a kelp foliar spray mixed together, but outside of that I top dress kelp, alfalfa, chicken manure pellets, blood meal if needed, ect.

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So let me see if im understanding what I think Im reading. You guys build your super soil but don't add nutes throughout the grow? Im in my first grow so im all for learning something new, especially if its better for my girls. For this grow I used a soil made just south of me in medford oregon its called 707. Ive been using botanicare pure grow and pure Bloom (it was given to me). I have also made compost tea on a number of occassion

I think next growni am going this route for sure. Do you have any suggestions for feedings? I have stuff like fish fertilizer, bat guano worm castings and kelp. Some of whitch i use when i make my compost tea.

I too, try and do all organic. However a lot of my products are not advertised as organic, but are “all natural”. For veg I use, cal mag(General Organics), epsom salt, hygrozyme or slf100, RAW veg microbes, mykos wp (xtreme gardening), yucca (RAW) and use ph up and down from earth juice.

For bloom I use the same cal mag, epsom, hygrozyme, yucca and ph. I use the RAW bloom microbes, Boogie Brix, Buddha bloom, and terpinator.

All of these products together have given me AMAZING results. Happy gardening!!!

MegaCrop.....

Equal parts peat moss, wormcastings / compost and garden pumice.

per cubic foot
1/2 cup kelp meal
1/2 cup crab shell meal
1/4 cup ahimsa indian neem cake
1/4 cup karanja cake
1/2 cup malted barley seed
2 cups basalt rock dust
2 cups gypsum rock dust
1/2 cup em1 bokashi or grokashi

Mix and cook in a tote or trash can for 4 weeks ( all soil mixes must be cooked). Cooking is basically fermenting the soil. Allowing everything to be broken down by microbes so everything is readily available for uptake when the plant wants. If you don't cook your soil you will be running intodeficiencies early on.

If you use a more amended mix with any bone meals (fish or cattle) you will have a much hotter soil and could burn your plants. With bone meals ( fish or cow) you should cook the soil for 2 months minimum for them to break down fully.

Green sand and dolomite lime are both useless as they take up to 2 years to break down. Dolomite lime has the wrong ratio of cal and mag. You want more of a 5:1 cal:mag ratio with liming. Oyster shell flour or gypsum rock dust is a better option. Dolomite lime is a 2:1 ratio


Never use perlite. It floats to the top of the soil ( not aerating the rest) and over time it breaks down into a powder and clogs the soil.

Rice hulls are better for a mulch as the break down pretty quick. Worms love them

2nd round plant new clone or seedling off to the side of the main stalk.. The main stalk from the last grow will break down eventually. Top with worm castings and water

Also add red wigglers and night crawlers to your pots or sips

Use mulch or cover crops.

Pot size 15 gallons minimum. 25 is better.

Lately I've just been top dressing 1-2 cups of bio live from down to earth. Then a thinlayer of homemade bokashi and a 2 inch layer of homemade worm castings

Then I also feed ferments.