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Relic79

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i was going to edit my post and add these, but can't seem to (maybe you can't edit after X hours?) anyway some full spectrum bud shots (ceiling light bulbs) and some HPS soaked room shots of my 7 week flower Gaia Green plants.

To recap above, veg was in all purpose 4-4-4 and coco pre-watered and allowed to break down, flower has been in power bloom 2-8-4 in coco. Top dressed 2-8-4 at recommended rate twice so far. Not much else, just plain water and a little organic cal/mag a couple times.
 

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Timbo-604

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FRICKITYFRICKTYFRESH said:
I would defiantly learn towards the 1/4 tbsp a week. The only tricky part about using dry amendments ive noticed so far is the timing inbetween top dressings. They are all slow release and break down faster or slower depending on the microbiology in the medium. Id think topdressing a 1/4 tbsp per week would help mitigate potential deficiencies. If you topdress heavy once a month you could end up frying your plants.
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I top dress with 2-8-4 once a week probably under feeding at this point. I was giving about two table spoons per 7 gal pot. Now they are in 15 gal pots and i didn’t increase the amount in my weekly top dress. I never saw any deficiency’s. Forgot to mention they are outdoor so just starting to flower now. About one week into stretch. Starting to get a few yellow leaves near the bottoms but other wise still green and growing.
 
GiovanniJones

GiovanniJones

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This thread is amazing. So far, in a nutshell, if I could put a grow plan together that works for this style of grow, this is what it might look like right now:
  • Begin with your unamended soil and your favorite brand of organic dry nutrients. This could be Gaia Green, Dr. Earth, Roots Organics, Agricola, or similar.
  • Mix in about 3-4 TBSP of veg. or all-purpose fertilizer into your soil.
  • Moisten it and let it compost for a minimum of two weeks. Keep in mind that it has to stay moist. Use this mix for your plants.
  • Once in one-gallon pots, feed by top-dressing with veg. or all-purpose at 1/4 TBSP each week. I love this idea of feeding weekly in smaller amounts.
  • When transplanting into larger pots, use soil that was prepared as above, but with the bloom fertilizer.
  • Feed weekly by top-dressing with bloom or flower fertilizer at 1/4 TBSP per gallon of soil each week.
  • NOTE #1: At two or three points in the grow, optionally feed with compost teas. This might not be necessary if your ferts came premixed with microbes.
  • NOTE #2: Top-dressing is not necessary on transplant weeks. When your plants go into one-gallon pots, don't top-dress that week and when they go into their final containers, don't top-dress that week either because the nutes are so fresh.
  • Harvest, dry, cure, smoke and pass out.
I'll try to change this plan once in a while as more posts come in and we collectively form new ideas. I'd love it if a simple guide like this might work as a starting point that could work regardless of fertilizer brand or (in most cases), the strain. I'm trying 100% Agricola in my next round starting in a few weeks, because I already have a bag.
 
swedsteven

swedsteven

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If you reuse your medium test your soil amazon sell cheap npk and ph tester all togethers and easy to use
After the third cycle with my medium it became hot
Now this cycle i will top dress at half the streng.

Love gaia green make it simple 2 bag of 20kg a year !with a pinch off dolomite garden lime to keep the ph from getting to acid.

Cheaper place i cant get it !
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GreenHighlander

GreenHighlander

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Dabbie McDoob said:
I see your on the east coast as well.

How do you find this product? Is it compost extract?
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I usually get it from a place called Halifax Seed.
TBH I am not 100% sure on what it is other then it is really good lol

swedsteven said:
If you reuse your medium test your soil amazon sell cheap npk and ph tester all togethers and easy to use
After the third cycle with my medium it became hot
Now this cycle i will top dress at half the streng.

Love gaia green make it simple 2 bag of 20kg a year !with a pinch off dolomite garden lime to keep the ph from getting to acid.

Cheaper place i cant get it !
indoor-growing-canada.myshopify.com

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HOLIDAY SALE 10% OFF NUTRIENTS! - The Number 1 rated Indoor Growing & Hydroponics store in Canada. We are dedicated in helping every grower find the best Grow tents, grow lights, grow kits and more. Free shipping on eligible orders over $149 in Canada.
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I stopped reusing and trying to re amend my soil. I have pretty hard water and the build up it causes was creating problems. I will sometimes now reuse at a rate of 1/4 old soil 3/4 new in my final 7gal pots. I also will reuse for veg in my 1gal pots. Other then that my used soil goes outside into garden beds.

Cheers :)
 
GiovanniJones

GiovanniJones

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GreenHighlander said:
TBH I am not 100% sure on what it is other then it is really good lol
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That's all I really need to hear, lol, I'm sold on it!

I use this water filter and water inline with a little hose right in my basement. It keeps all the mineral levels in the water pretty low. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but helpful in preventing buildups I hope.

My wife looks for places on the ocean in NS all the time on the Realtor website, hoping to have a summer home there for when we retire. So beautiful out there. :)
 
GiovanniJones

GiovanniJones

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The Neptune's Harvest website has a retail store locator on their website that seems helpful.

So, @GreenHighlander, if you're growing organically and you see some deficiency, do you water with Neptune's Harvest at 1 TBSP per gallon of water, as per their instructions? Do you do this weekly until the end of the grow? Thanks, I really appreciate this.
 
GreenHighlander

GreenHighlander

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GiovanniJones said:
The Neptune's Harvest website has a retail store locator on their website that seems helpful.

So, @GreenHighlander, if you're growing organically and you see some deficiency, do you water with Neptune's Harvest at 1 TBSP per gallon of water, as per their instructions? Do you do this weekly until the end of the grow? Thanks, I really appreciate this.
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It all depends on how bad the soil is running out of gas. For the most part I just let things play out and make adjustments if I run it again. But ya the rare time I do use it I do so at a rate of 1 tbs per gal. I freind of mine also swears by it as a foliar

Cheers :)
 
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Chadwick9519

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New to growing with soil and Organic Amendments and fertilizers im in need of some advice from others who know more then me and i cant seem to find anything on google that can help me out. I have previously grown hydro and synthetic Nutrients but do to the summer weather i cant seem to keep my water temps low enough to do that atm.

I Currently have 1 Kush'n cheese from Dinafem
2 bag seed of Skywalker O.G
Just curious if my soil has all the right stuff
Im going to be putting the girls in 5 gallon fabric pots with a mix of
ProMox BX and im adding COCO and WormCastings
Dolomite lime
Fine ground oyster shell
Organic Kelp meal
Organic neem fertilizer
Bone Meal

Gaia Green all purpose for veg
Gaia Green 284 for bloom

Does this sound okay? Is there something i should add or take out ? Would this make my soil "hot" as i said im new and open to criticism or pointers, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
 
swedsteven

swedsteven

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Chadwick9519 said:
New to growing with soil and Organic Amendments and fertilizers im in need of some advice from others who know more then me and i cant seem to find anything on google that can help me out. I have previously grown hydro and synthetic Nutrients but do to the summer weather i cant seem to keep my water temps low enough to do that atm.

I Currently have 1 Kush'n cheese from Dinafem
2 bag seed of Skywalker O.G
Just curious if my soil has all the right stuff
Im going to be putting the girls in 5 gallon fabric pots with a mix of
ProMox BX and im adding COCO and WormCastings
Dolomite lime
Fine ground oyster shell
Organic Kelp meal
Organic neem fertilizer
Bone Meal

Gaia Green all purpose for veg
Gaia Green 284 for bloom

Does this sound okay? Is there something i should add or take out ? Would this make my soil "hot" as i said im new and open to criticism or pointers, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
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Wow dont use lime and oyester shell nono with new promix you dont need its already in there
Use your mix of medium promix coco and worm casting and add only the 4-4-4 for the premix as told on the box and top dres 50/50 or 25/75 with the 2-8-4 every 3 to 4 week more then that is to much . I am high peace bro read on this site a lot off great info.

1cup off 4-4-4 is enought for the first 5 gallon mix
Then half for the topdress use a litlle off worm casting when top dressing and mix it on the top even if it break some small root half inch off the top soil. Good luck water only
 
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Chadwick9519

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swedsteven said:
Wow dont use lime and oyester shell nono with new promix you dont need its already in there
Use your mix of medium promix coco and worm casting and add only the 4-4-4 for the premix as told on the box and top dres 50/50 or 25/75 with the 2-8-4 every 3 to 4 week more then that is to much . I am high peace bro read on this site a lot off great info.

1cup off 4-4-4 is enought for the first 5 gallon mix
Then half for the topdress use a litlle off worm casting when top dressing and mix it on the top even if it break some small root half inch off the top soil. Good luck water only
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Fuck i already mixed it all and transplanted them into 1 gallon containers for now
 
GiovanniJones

GiovanniJones

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GreenHighlander said:
It all depends on how bad the soil is running out of gas. For the most part I just let things play out and make adjustments if I run it again. But ya the rare time I do use it I do so at a rate of 1 tbs per gal. I freind of mine also swears by it as a foliar

Cheers :)
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Even though I'm late into my current grow, I've felt like the nutes have been pretty depleted for a while now, so I just added some Neptune's harvest to each plant to hopefully make my plants a little less hungry. Thanks for that tip, I picked up a gallon exactly like yours today. Next time I grow, I'm going to start at around that 1 cup of Gaia Green per 5 gallons of soil, which is quite a bit more than I used this time around. Really appreciate the suggestions.
 
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