What is the best soil to use!

ganjagoddess said:

Kinda

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I want my sleeping bag to look just like that when I crawl in for the night.

My first time is like 3/4 Black Gold Potting Mix and a 1/4 Botanicare Soilless Aeration Mix (basically coco and perlite)

the miracle grow organic i am using seems to be doing good but is there any thing i should add to it like perlite or worm castings ? Should i use the same soil to flower with or something different?

I have a recipe for a soil mix but cant find worm castings or bat guano anywhere in town . Is there a substatute i can use instead or should i just order the stuff?

im using fox farms with guano,worm castings and manure. seems to be working good...in a few weeks i will be using a guano,sea bird,chicken,worm castings tea mix.

im using fox farm ocean forest, worm casting kelp seaweed mix i found bat guano bone meal perlite and peat moss hopefully it will be good just mixed all yesterday

if your not growing outside guano is useless it takes up to a year before it becomes available to your plants

nozthedon said:

if your not growing outside guano is useless it takes up to a year before it becomes available to your plants

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Ummm I've never heard that, where did that come from? Guano works fine as is, how do you think people make their organic teas and feed their plants? If it didn't work no one would use it and plants would severely under fed. It's not a matter of composting either, from what I understand it's super old and they use fossilized guano.

im just saying when you put it in the soil its not going to be available to your plants until some time thats why people use it in teas so it can be use up by the plant immediately. thats why the sell liquid guano now

blueberrysmoker said:

I have a recipe for a soil mix but cant find worm castings or bat guano anywhere in town . Is there a substatute i can use instead or should i just order the stuff?

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I use the worm casting in the veg soil only/it's a personal choice of mine-the theory is that the worm castings give off slow nitrogen so you really don't need it that much in flowering(my flowering nutes have plenty of nitrogen----get the guano---I love to mix a little in the bottom of my pots with the soil---I also add Bat Juice every other watering. When the roots hit that guano in the bottom they go ape-shit crazy, they get a supercharge of phos week 4 to 6.

I couldnt get the worm castings or bat guano so i made my own:
Using this mixture gives you a ratio of this :
52% potting mix
23% peat moss
5% perlite
10% sand
5% blood meal
5% bulb tone fertilizer
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100% organic mix

who here has tried ROOTS ORGANIC POTTING SOIL?
I just bought some and it looks excellent, was recommended over FF.

Its seen here: CoCo Coir Peat: Coco coir peat-organic multi purpose plant growing medium/potting medium, best water saver
any tips on anything to add to for a first time grower?

Everyone uses there own soil preference.