Questions ?ocean forest (fox farm)

There's never a medium of yay or nays to this soil. Everything I see about it for seedlings is "it's too hot, no it's perfect" so I'm here to see if I can work with it. I'm not trying to add nuts until a month later. My name is Chicagosworse because I'm a gamer. Chicagosworse gamer FYI

Plenty of people use it just fine.

Newbie here, I've grown 8 seedlings to adulthood so far in FFOF no real problems. I've been told "Just buy it from a store that keeps the soil inside during summer if you don't want extra insects/fungus gnats."

Actually basically just assume fungus gnats are coming with any living soil & buy some Microbe-Lift BMC. 1 tiny drop per gallon - 2gallons of watering

You can, just watch'm when they are young. Some babies do fine others can be sensitive to it..

It's fine as long as you don't use their nutrients and follow their feed chart that has you using a dozen bottles of stuff and feeding 3.0 EC. The soil is fine but I wouldn't use their nutrients.

farmerfischer said:

You can, just watch'm when they are young. Some babies do fine others can be sensitive to it..

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Yup a lot of people swear by "diluting" FFOF with Fox Farm Happy Frog 50/50, or just using Happy Frog for the seedling stage.... then FFOF for transplants. I think I may do that in future.

Drduke, can I just bake the soil and get rid of any insects?

Chicagosworse said:

Drduke, can I just bake the soil and get rid of any insects?

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Keep in mined Baking will kill alot of benificials..

Chicagosworse said:

Drduke, can I just bake the soil and get rid of any insects?

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The only insects I've noticed are beneficial ones & fungus gnats. Like I said, 1 drop a week of Microbe-LiftBMC & some yellow sticky traps = gnat problem solved. Regular IPM prevents anything else unwanted introduced to your environment. That's the limit of my knowledge so far bro, only been at it 5 months.

Don't bake the soil.

Thank you leeloo, if that makes any sense. From fifth element. Bad joke maybe

Ok! Thanks ! No bake

Chicagosworse said:

Thank you leeloo, if that makes any sense. From fifth element. Bad joke maybe

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Multee-pass!

I have been using FFHF and FFOF since the start of my grow with no issues. I started in HF with perlite mixed in in cups and then when I went to 1 gallon fabric pots had a mix of HF OF and perlite. Then up to the 3 gallons with OF. Knock on wood, but I have had no bug issues or any other issues thus far.

I mix mine Happy Frog/OF 60/40.

I think people complaining it's too hot are over watering and feeding too soon. The soil can usually hold you over a few weeks before you need to add any food.

Chicagosworse said:

There's never a medium of yay or nays to this soil. Everything I see about it for seedlings is "it's too hot, no it's perfect" so I'm here to see if I can work with it. I'm not trying to add nuts until a month later. My name is Chicagosworse because I'm a gamer. Chicagosworse gamer FYI

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Why kinda nuts you plannin on growin? Peanuts, walnuts.... water chestnuts?

The mental nuts one

60% happy frog, 20% ocean forest, 20% perlite.

Geesh 8 seedlings. That's pretty good, That's how much I killed. I'm wondering what did you feed them when they matured? I have a head injury so it's hard to understand certain things at times. Just like Michael Scott " explain it to me as if I was 12"

Chicagosworse said:

Geesh 8 seedlings. That's pretty good, That's how much I killed. I'm wondering what did you feed them when they matured? I have a head injury so it's hard to understand certain things at times. Just like Michael Scott " explain it to me as if I was 12"

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General Hydroponics original trio is cheap and works perfectly. You don’t need anything else except cal mag. For cal mag use a brand with the lowest nitrogen. CaliMagic is fine.