newbie grower, advise?

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shredder1

Member
i just recently have taken up growing and have been serching local department stores like mad to find the right shit, i have accumulated the following,

miracle grow perlite
sunshing pro premium potting soil
horticultural vermiculite
bone meal
blood meal both miracle grow organic
alaskan fish emulsion 5-1-1
and today ordered some foxfarm nutes
(the trio- big bloom, grow big and tiger bloom)

what i was planning on doing is starting my seedling in the soil with nothing in it seeing how it already contains a good ammount of perlite however it said nothing of the soil haveing vermiculite but it does contain pine straw?
i am planning on letting them develop a decent root system and only feeding them filtered water that has a ph of roughly 6.5 for the first couple weeks, then i really have no knowlage on the nutrients, how to use them/ when to use them and exactly how much to use, could i get away with using only fox farm nutes throughout the whole grow? is blood/bone meal or alaskan fish emulsion necessary and also is it ok to start in plain soil like the sunshin pro premium potting soil or will i need attitives, (perlite, vermiculit dolmitic lime, ect, and if so how much)

any knowledge shed on all theses questions would be swell, thank's again
 
Dirtyboy

Dirtyboy

Well-Known Member
shredder1 said:
i just recently have taken up growing and have been serching local department stores like mad to find the right shit, i have accumulated the following,

miracle grow perlite
sunshing pro premium potting soil
horticultural vermiculite
bone meal
blood meal both miracle grow organic
alaskan fish emulsion 5-1-1
and today ordered some foxfarm nutes
(the trio- big bloom, grow big and tiger bloom)

what i was planning on doing is starting my seedling in the soil with nothing in it seeing how it already contains a good ammount of perlite however it said nothing of the soil haveing vermiculite but it does contain pine straw?
i am planning on letting them develop a decent root system and only feeding them filtered water that has a ph of roughly 6.5 for the first couple weeks, then i really have no knowlage on the nutrients, how to use them/ when to use them and exactly how much to use, could i get away with using only fox farm nutes throughout the whole grow? is blood/bone meal or alaskan fish emulsion necessary and also is it ok to start in plain soil like the sunshin pro premium potting soil or will i need attitives, (perlite, vermiculit dolmitic lime, ect, and if so how much)

any knowledge shed on all theses questions would be swell, thank's again
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Ditch the mg perlite and get some with out nutes. Just use the fox farm nutes. Follow there chart. It will tell you when,how,and how much.
 
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carolinagrower

Active Member
I have grown for years using just FF nutes and soil and have been more than pleased with the results. Their ocean forest soil is great though I do like to add 10% perlite to it. But dirtyboy is right, ditch the mircle grow and just use the Fox Farm, and go find some regular perlite, that crap from Mircle Grow even has their nutes in it.
 
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