Experienced Grower Advice

Charles U Farley said:

For me, there's just nothing like getting your hands in real honest to God dirt. Even though I know my wife would love it if I would get into hydroponics (it'd make the house a hell of a lot cleaner) but there's just something so magical about cannabis growing in soil.

Since I don't get caught up in all the measuring of pH, EC, runoff, various and assorted fertilizer ratios for various periods of time, etc., I find cannabis plants teach me more than any school ever did.

You learn how to take care of what takes care of you.

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For sure man, lol, well said.

I've learned more about gardening and plants since starting to grow Cannabis than I did for 20 years previously. Full respect to the nature, and beauty, of this plant!

Here's one... Lots of newer folks starting and choose to make up their own soil. Many are going to add coco, use unlimed Pete, add various feed, etc.
The coco thing I believe adds much confusion for newbies and especially when making mixes.
Do you mix Pete in your soil mixes?
If so what do you do differently than say regular commercial mixes?
I know many won't understand what all goes in and what to look out for.

I've found that soaking seeds in a quart of water with 2-3 drops of H202 for 5-10min before planting gets some water and oxygen working into the seed and helps to clean the seed of anything that could lead to damping off. Don't let soak for too long or that H202 could do damage. Ive seen 6 hour soaks and the worst that happens is like 80% of seeds germinate instead of all of them, but better to just keep it short.

Grape Stomper

beebud said:

Here's one... Lots of newer folks starting and choose to make up their own soil. Many are going to add coco, use unlimed Pete, add various feed, etc.
The coco thing I believe adds much confusion for newbies and especially when making mixes.
Do you mix Pete in your soil mixes?
If so what do you do differently than say regular commercial mixes?
I know many won't understand what all goes in and what to look out for.

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I don't add peat into my soil mixes just because i start with the roots organic original as a base, which already has a great ratio of peat and coco in it. No need to reinvent the wheel, just add some spokes you know. I add a bunch of amendments to the bag of roots, a fairly long list, basically my own tweaked version of super soil after doing side by side trials for 4-5 years. Things like fish meal, fish bone meal, oyster shell, dolmitic lime, quanos, castings, compost, other seed meals, kelp, insect frass, rock phosphate, etc.