What kind of soil are you using?

There's alot of choices when it comes to soils. I know that foxfarm is the best you can get but some people use different ones and swear by them. Starting an outdoor grow in a couple weeks and I'm going to plant them in cups then transplant into the ground. What soils have you tried and recommend? And how many bags per plant? I appreciate and will rep any helpful replies.

Matt09784 said:

There's alot of choices when it comes to soils. I know that foxfarm is the best you can get but some people use different ones and swear by them. Starting an outdoor grow in a couple weeks and I'm going to plant them in cups then transplant into the ground. What soils have you tried and recommend? And how many bags per plant? I appreciate and will rep any helpful replies.

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MG organic choice it works look at the avitar grown with MG soil. Dont over water and you will be fine .Good Luck

Pro mix
and nutrition is all u need

i use sunshine mix which is similiar to pro mix. comes in 3.8 cu ft compressed bales. good stuff. it contains no nutes growing in it is basicaly dwc you have to add what the plant wants. that or pro mix is good choices for a base medium ive used them both but i now have a good hook up for sunchine so i go with that.

i used scotts soil in my indoor grow with no problems but now i have catipillers so i dont know if ill be useing it again.

mo841 said:

i used scotts soil in my indoor grow with no problems but now i have catipillers so i dont know if ill be useing it again.

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So where do you suppose the eggs came from the soil? next time add this to you soil will help with crawling pests its OMRI
diatomaceous earth
Good Luck

Matt09784 said:

There's alot of choices when it comes to soils. I know that foxfarm is the best you can get but some people use different ones and swear by them. Starting an outdoor grow in a couple weeks and I'm going to plant them in cups then transplant into the ground. What soils have you tried and recommend? And how many bags per plant? I appreciate and will rep any helpful replies.

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if your going to grow outdoors i would'nt sugest a soilless mix such as pro mix or sunshine. i would sugest a good organic potting soil with small dose of time released ferts.

i grow commercially indoor and outdoor.
yes for indoor i use promix and add water soluble ferts as i maintain them on a daily basis.

however i wouldnt sugest this outdoors because the purpose of growing outdoors is to let nature nurture you plants. This being said i would go with a simple soil mix simular to this:

Good organic potting soil
1 part perlite
1 part worm casting.

something close to this works real well for outdoor.
and when doing this i always dig a whole about a foot to 2 foot deep and fill the whole with a mix such as the one above. once the roots grow through this the plant is normally mature enough to take care of itself using earths natural soil..

so this is something i would recommend and again there are many variables. good luck and happy growing

I mixed FFOF and Black Gold + Perlite. 2 to one ratio, soil to prelite. My plants are lovein it. If you dont believ me, serach The Magic Sauna.

That is 1 part FF
1 part BG
1 part Perlite

Trick

two ff ocean one happy frog one bag perlite

im using the biobizz all mix plus their line of nutes... so far im seeing some improvement to my previous grows...

I used to use grow all the way through flowering when i was growing on soil. Biobizz grow is designed to be used like this, one of the reasons i liked it so much.