Osiyo! How's it going everyone! I am new to the forum, but have been following for a while. Not a new grower. Been growing for several years. All outdoors and up until recently, all photo plants.
@Budzbuddha it is nice to meet you. I have been following some of your threads and grows for a while. Very nice grows i might add. I like the way you also like to keep things simple. But I just wanted to chime in on this. I am not trying to toot Fox Farms horn anymore, but it is really hard to beat a soil mix of FFOF/HF. Here is what I am using as a mix (which is pretty similar to yours). And this is for auto grows, which i just started growing last year finally. Until then i have only grew photos. And i have a little bit different variation that i have been using for them. Save that for another thread.
But for a 5gal. fabric bag,
The bottom layer i am using 3 gal. of just FFOF, for the top layer I use 1 1/2gal. of a 50/50 mix of HF/OF with about a cup of good quality earthworm castings mixed in(to give the myco in the HF a little jumpstart boost), and to finish i will start my seeds in a 1/2 gal. pot using only HF, and i will leave a spot in the middle of the bag where it will be. When i transplant i dust the inside of the hole and the roots of the plant with Xtreme Mycos WP. (just my preference) Great White and Big Foot myco are also very good as well. And then after transplant i use nothing but water out of the tap, not ph'd or de-clorinated, for about 5 to 6 weeks, and then i will scratch in about a big handful of ewc or just top dress with fresh OF if i have any left. That is pretty much it. Oh, i would like to mention that i add about 10% perlite in all of the soil mix. And as far as any outside nutes i was going to try to use none for these autos, but last year when they started flowering good, the ladies started showing a few deficiencies. So I gave them a few waterings of Maxibloom, and that straightened them up. Now keep in mind these are outdoors also. Nutes get used up faster from my experience. But just having to mix up some mb a few times isn't that awful. It is still super simple imo. And the plants have did great. I am on my 2nd auto grow this year. Going to be doing 2 harvests of autos, 4 plants each run. We are allowed 6. But i also have 2 photos going as well. I will be starting a grow journal shortly.
And I am growing in NE Oklahoma. Right in the heart of tornado alley. And the last 2-3 weeks has shown it in our state. So growing outdoors here is not a very easy task to take on in the first place. No reason to make it more difficult by making grows more complicated than they need to be.
Sorry for the long reply. Lol
Glad to be apart of the group. Seems like a lot of good growers in here with a lot of knowledge. I look forward to maybe being able to help someone else if they have issues as well as learning more myself.
