What soil should I use?

Most important with the choice of soil for MJ is to get some with the right PH (5,8-6,8 ) Dolomite lime or other types of Lime can help you with a acid soil

Beside that MJ like a airy and light soil, so make sure to keep a good amount of perlite, clay/hydro pellets or even small stones can do the trick, coco fibers is also a nice thing to add to your soil mix to make if more "fluffy" anything that make it drain better so you will of course also want the pot`s to have a good amount of nice big drain holes, a too compact or clay filled soil can really ruin your growth, as it stay wet/moist for too long and create a too acid environment where the plant have a hard time to thrive with very little oxygen in the medium

so don't go cheap here, I had good results with Plagron and biobizz in the start, now I make my own, I buy my soil at a local garden center/school where they make a nice organic seedling soil (seedling soil = low amount of nutrients) then I add +20% perlite and if I have some 10-20% coco, its start out with a PH around 6 and if I add coco even lower, so I add some lime (like a ts per gallon of soil) beside that I only add some bat guano powder for the nutrients, and do a few repots doing veg, if/when I run out in bloom I add some more as a top dressing (a few tape spoon on top of the soil before watering)

IMO A good easy basic nutrients to start out with for new growers is GH (I used it on my first few grows and also use it in my hemp buckets now) either the flora duo or flora novo, both will work great with MJ and easy to use with the lucas formula

http://lucasformula.com


Do some read up and keep asking questions

Best of luck

Slip

prosperian said:

First time I used this: Organic bagged + Mushroom Compost + Perlite at equal ratios and supplemented with Roots Organics Budha Grow Bloom. Had to feed every two waterings.

Now I use Roots Organics Original Potting Soil 1.5 cu. ft. per plant. Ingredients: Coco fiber, peat moss, perlite, pumice, premium worm castings, bat guano, kelp, fish bone meal, soy bean meal, feather meal, greensand, leonardite and alfalfa meal.

I cook the soil a month or two before use. "Cook" means putting it into a container with water or nute tea and letting the microbes get busy. Good drainage too. No other feeding is required to harvest.

Here is the difference. Notice the yellowing and fade of the plants using bloom foods. AK47 and Pineapple Exp

Now look at these plants, green to harvest and never feed any food. Just what is in the soil.

5 week flower frostiness

Lot a ways you can grow plants with soil. I like my method. It's easy as it gets, organic, and the plants are happy.

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God I wish I could do half the shit you do.. In time. Great read!!

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prosperian said:

First time I used this: Organic bagged + Mushroom Compost + Perlite at equal ratios and supplemented with Roots Organics Budha Grow Bloom. Had to feed every two waterings.

Now I use Roots Organics Original Potting Soil 1.5 cu. ft. per plant. Ingredients: Coco fiber, peat moss, perlite, pumice, premium worm castings, bat guano, kelp, fish bone meal, soy bean meal, feather meal, greensand, leonardite and alfalfa meal.

I cook the soil a month or two before use. "Cook" means putting it into a container with water or nute tea and letting the microbes get busy. Good drainage too. No other feeding is required to harvest.

Here is the difference. Notice the yellowing and fade of the plants using bloom foods. AK47 and Pineapple Exp

Now look at these plants, green to harvest and never feed any food. Just what is in the soil.

5 week flower frostiness

Lot a ways you can grow plants with soil. I like my method. It's easy as it gets, organic, and the plants are happy.

Click to expand...

How much is your yield affected? You get more or less with the roots organic soil?