Hey Matt, you seam to know your stuff. Let me tell you what I'm working and get your input.
First my soil
I mixed a bag each of Ocean forest, light warrior, and Happy Frog, with 15Lbs of earth worm casting, 3 cups of lime, 6-7 oz of Humboldt's Myco Madness, one cup Peace of mind tomato & vegetable 7-4-5 and few handfuls of perlite.
I'm hoping this soil will carry me through veg and most of flower, do you think this is the case? I ask because I'm bad at noticing deficiencies until they are about to spread to the whole plant.
I also have a box of the entire General Organics line. I know how to use the Grow and bloom nutes as well as the Calmag but I'm not sure about all of the other bottles.
One bottle, diamond black is supposedly a soil conditioner containing Leonardite, Then there's a bottle of Bio-Weed which is made from sea weed and supposedly helps plants recover from stress, there are also few more bottles made from other things like squid and rock phosphate. One is to help the mycorhazie.
Do I really need any of these products? I don't want to risk burning my plants but is seams like all of the bottles work together so I don't want to leave out a key part.
I tried to build a soil that would nourish the endomycorrhazie, but if I can help them even more with all of the extra bottles I'll give it a try, whats your opinion?
Thanks for your help.
Well, the good thing is that organics are harder to burn with, and you ARE good at seeing deficiencies already but just need the confidence.
Your soil mix sounds good for minimal feeding. Why would you mix so many media? I personally like to do that to, just curious.
The Diamond Black is actually something I use a lot of. I consider it a liquid version of awesome soil, that I add to my mostly soil-less media (your media is a mix of soil-less and soil base). You can use that (0-0-1) without burning, and you don't have to feed full strength on any of these products unless they need the food.
And I've been a huge fan of seaweed products for a long time, they are a major portion of the PLANT BASED ORGANIC INDOOR SOIL-LESS system that I'm working on. (.2-0-.3) is also a rating that practically cannot burn.
The root boost is something that also, cannot hurt. I use lots of that kind of product early, and then just a little throughout. (1-1-1) can't really burn.
Don't be shy with the flower booster, (.5-.1-1) is also something that can't really burn if used on top of slow release. Just make sure to do a real flush (2 weeks plus) to get rid of all the food and get some good chlorosis (yellowing).
Deficient herb tastes the best...what can I say...my whole set up is based around being able to cut the food out at the end and forcing the plants to live off of their stores of chlorophyll.
+ rep me if you like the answer, hope I helped. peas.
You should be good on food through veg and early flower. And if you use a tea now and then to refresh your microbes, should be gravy if your water is quality. Don't be shy with the flower food, your slow release is mostly Nitrogen. Deficiencies start either at the top or bottom, if anything doesn't look quite right, then it is not. Watch your pH both water and soil.
and I spent way more to grow way less. Update on the results asap. Peas.
