JustBlazin
Well-Known Member
Hi all.
Ive been growing a long time and after many years of growing I think I've found my easiest way to grow top quality buds.
Ive used salt nutrients for years, they work great but I grew tired of mixing nutrients and checking ph. And heaven forbid you have to flush for some reason. Geez what a pain and talk about a waste of water.
Then I tried organic liquid nutrients for a few years, also worked great but once again got tired of mixing all the time.
So I moved on to living soil in a bag. Now we are getting somewhere...lol
Much easier to just water tap water easy as it gets. No ph testing, no mixing just straight from tap or I also use dehumidifier water so I dont waste any water.
This stuff works great with just water for around a month or so(depending on pot and plant size) then you will have to top dress with more mix every few weeks or so.
Bags of living soil(gaia green,ocean forest, happy frog ect.) Are pretty expensive around $30 for a bag at the time, so I figured i would buy some dry amendments and a bag of promix(my medium of choice) and mix it up myself for a fraction of the price.
the jug of Gaia green was around $20 and the promix was around $30-40. So for the price of 2 bags of soil i can do my whole tent with stuff left over.
I did a side by side with my left over ocean forest vs my mixture of gaia green 444/promix and the mix i made blew the ocean forest out of the water. After 3 or 4 weeks I tossed the ocean forest for more room as the gaia green mixture was at least double the size.
I've been using gaia green dry amendments with promix ever since. It's been between 5-10 years and it works great.
Heres what you need to grow top quality cannabis in the easiest way I have found.
1- bail of promix, it can be bx,hp,organic ive used all three.
2- 2kg jug of gaia green 444 all purpose, if you like it next time get the bags for a cheaper price point.
3- 2kg jug of gaia green 284 power bloom.
Now you just mix up the soil as per the instructions on the label for the all purpose 444. When mixing it make sure it's moist and mix it up good. Let it sit for 3-4 weeks to cook, if you can turn it once or twice in that time its a good idea to do.
When I put clones or seedlings Into solo cups I use half my mix and half plain promix, So its only half strength, just to let the smaller plants get used to the soil. I dont want to risk burning them.
Let them grow a couple weeks and once they are growing well then transplant to your bigger pots.
Top dressing, This is where things get a little tricky. Top dressing all depends on two factors from my perspective, the size of the plant and the size of the pot.
Now if you have a relatively small plant in a huge 10-20 gallon pot or bed you probably won't need to top dress but if you are in a smaller 2-7 gallon pot you will have to top dress. And if you have a huge tree in pretty much any size pot, I would guess you would have to top dress. I dont grow huge plants personally.
Top dressing is done usually every 2-3 weeks, usually at a tbls per gallon of soil.
In flower you would top dress with the power bloom after week 2-3 of flower
Here is my personal method which has worked really well for me. And I found it very easy to produce quality buds.
I have my next plants for the next flower run in solo cups for a few weeks.
Now I put them into my mix in my 2 gallon containers,(I would recommend 3-5 gallon to make it less likely to not run into trouble. I find the bigger the pot the easier to not run into problems. But I like to put in lots of plants for variety so I use 2 gallons) and I put them into my flower tent, let them veg for a week or 2. I just want to make sure they get used the the new pot and start growing nicely before I flip to flower.
Once I'm going to flip to flower I top dress them with all purpose 444. This is so the plant has lots of nitrogen for the first 2-3 weeks of stretch.
After the stretch and they are just starting to bud around week 3ish, now it's time to top dress with the power bloom 284. I will also top dress again around week 5-6. If you have a 12+ week strain you might want to top dress again at week 8.
The whole time I'm just feeding tap/dehumidifier water.
And now you enjoy the dank!!
It doesn't get any easier than that.....
Oh wait!!!!!
If you would like to make things even easier I would suggest blumats, autopots or a timed watering system.
I use blumats, so i just fill a res with water every few days and the blumats water the plants themselves.
Blumats can be tricky to deal with, so autopots might be a better option as it has the same type of principle of blumats without the flooding risk.
Timed systems are good too, but i personally like the fact plants literally drink as much or as little as they like with blumats or autopots whereas timed systems force feed every plant the same no matter what as far as I know.
In order to grow some serious quality buds you also need great genetics.
If you have quality genetics and use this method you can grow some serious dank.
The proof is in the pudding.
Happy growing
Justblazin
P.S The pudding
Ive been growing a long time and after many years of growing I think I've found my easiest way to grow top quality buds.
Ive used salt nutrients for years, they work great but I grew tired of mixing nutrients and checking ph. And heaven forbid you have to flush for some reason. Geez what a pain and talk about a waste of water.
Then I tried organic liquid nutrients for a few years, also worked great but once again got tired of mixing all the time.
So I moved on to living soil in a bag. Now we are getting somewhere...lol
Much easier to just water tap water easy as it gets. No ph testing, no mixing just straight from tap or I also use dehumidifier water so I dont waste any water.
This stuff works great with just water for around a month or so(depending on pot and plant size) then you will have to top dress with more mix every few weeks or so.
Bags of living soil(gaia green,ocean forest, happy frog ect.) Are pretty expensive around $30 for a bag at the time, so I figured i would buy some dry amendments and a bag of promix(my medium of choice) and mix it up myself for a fraction of the price.
the jug of Gaia green was around $20 and the promix was around $30-40. So for the price of 2 bags of soil i can do my whole tent with stuff left over.
I did a side by side with my left over ocean forest vs my mixture of gaia green 444/promix and the mix i made blew the ocean forest out of the water. After 3 or 4 weeks I tossed the ocean forest for more room as the gaia green mixture was at least double the size.
I've been using gaia green dry amendments with promix ever since. It's been between 5-10 years and it works great.
Heres what you need to grow top quality cannabis in the easiest way I have found.
1- bail of promix, it can be bx,hp,organic ive used all three.
2- 2kg jug of gaia green 444 all purpose, if you like it next time get the bags for a cheaper price point.
3- 2kg jug of gaia green 284 power bloom.
Now you just mix up the soil as per the instructions on the label for the all purpose 444. When mixing it make sure it's moist and mix it up good. Let it sit for 3-4 weeks to cook, if you can turn it once or twice in that time its a good idea to do.
When I put clones or seedlings Into solo cups I use half my mix and half plain promix, So its only half strength, just to let the smaller plants get used to the soil. I dont want to risk burning them.
Let them grow a couple weeks and once they are growing well then transplant to your bigger pots.
Top dressing, This is where things get a little tricky. Top dressing all depends on two factors from my perspective, the size of the plant and the size of the pot.
Now if you have a relatively small plant in a huge 10-20 gallon pot or bed you probably won't need to top dress but if you are in a smaller 2-7 gallon pot you will have to top dress. And if you have a huge tree in pretty much any size pot, I would guess you would have to top dress. I dont grow huge plants personally.
Top dressing is done usually every 2-3 weeks, usually at a tbls per gallon of soil.
In flower you would top dress with the power bloom after week 2-3 of flower
Here is my personal method which has worked really well for me. And I found it very easy to produce quality buds.
I have my next plants for the next flower run in solo cups for a few weeks.
Now I put them into my mix in my 2 gallon containers,(I would recommend 3-5 gallon to make it less likely to not run into trouble. I find the bigger the pot the easier to not run into problems. But I like to put in lots of plants for variety so I use 2 gallons) and I put them into my flower tent, let them veg for a week or 2. I just want to make sure they get used the the new pot and start growing nicely before I flip to flower.
Once I'm going to flip to flower I top dress them with all purpose 444. This is so the plant has lots of nitrogen for the first 2-3 weeks of stretch.
After the stretch and they are just starting to bud around week 3ish, now it's time to top dress with the power bloom 284. I will also top dress again around week 5-6. If you have a 12+ week strain you might want to top dress again at week 8.
The whole time I'm just feeding tap/dehumidifier water.
And now you enjoy the dank!!
It doesn't get any easier than that.....
Oh wait!!!!!
If you would like to make things even easier I would suggest blumats, autopots or a timed watering system.
I use blumats, so i just fill a res with water every few days and the blumats water the plants themselves.
Blumats can be tricky to deal with, so autopots might be a better option as it has the same type of principle of blumats without the flooding risk.
Timed systems are good too, but i personally like the fact plants literally drink as much or as little as they like with blumats or autopots whereas timed systems force feed every plant the same no matter what as far as I know.
In order to grow some serious quality buds you also need great genetics.
If you have quality genetics and use this method you can grow some serious dank.
The proof is in the pudding.
Happy growing
Justblazin
P.S The pudding
