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Here’s their bloom feed bottle. Also I will say I live in a really soft water area. So before I was using rainwater I always had cal/mag defs. So I use biobizz organic calmag, which also contains no N which is nice and also is alkaline which helps keeps the feed in an acceptable pH range

I have dol lime and always use biobizz light mix which is organic also ! So in a 5 gallon pot I should mix 2 n a half table spoons of dol lime in befor I plant?

Sorry for all the questions just trying to get my head around organic growing at the moment, so different to synthetic

Buddy73 said:

I have dol lime and always use biobizz light mix which is organic also ! So in a 5 gallon pot I should mix 2 n a half table spoons of dol lime in befor I plant?

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No worries man fire away!

Well it all depends on what the pH of the mix is. I bought myself an expensive pH pen to stop all the guess work with run off.

Don’t know why it’s £100 more now but was £150 when I bought it last year, although a dog is like 2 grand now so fuck knows.

It says it already has a ph buffer in so should not need dol then ?

Buffers to 6.2 - 6.3

Buddy73 said:

View attachment 4878450It says it already has a ph buffer in so should not need dol then ?

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Yea my house and garden mix has lime too. Comes out the bag 5.8 when they say 5.8-6.3

This run I didn’t add extra lime as ive only just switched to using this soil and again all the classic mid flower deficiencies started showing.

My water is soft and at 7.8 pH

But there is no calcium to buffer that pH. Eventually the soft water acidifies the media.

If your water is hard you shouldn’t need to add extra lime to the soil. But on the other hand the only way to know for sure as every bag varies is to get a reliable means of testing that pH.

First plant on left is done and was limed, the one on the right wasn’t limed and is now yellowing.

Buddy73 said:

Buffers to 6.2 - 6.3

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I would check to make sure my bag is that pH level with my pen just to be certain. Saves the guess work later down the toad

Hmm I don’t want to mess things up in the soil, was going to do it with my outside grow 1st and see

Buddy73 said:

Hmm I don’t want to mess things up in the soil, was going to do it with my outside grow 1st and see

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Well 6.5 pH is optimum for our plants so you have a little headroom to add some.

Dol Lime is pH neutral. So it won’t go past pH 7

You’d do no harm at all adding 1 tbsp in a 5 gal pot. That should get you to around pH 6.5 and will keep you there even if you overfeed. Excess P and K acidifies the rootzone, just when we tend to add more of it in flowering. So if it’s not all used your soil will acidify.

Ive never used biobizz soil but this is just my experience with primarily peat based media

I could alway water in a tablespoon in flower couldn’t I ?

Got this!

Buddy73 said:

I could alway water in a tablespoon in flower couldn’t I ?

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Ive tried that and it didn’t work at all. Just all sat on top of the soil. Really needs to be mixed in few days prior to planting.

Won’t load the last of the label for me in the photo. Probably does the job but personally I’d stick to a brand I’m more familiar with.

And tbh I wouldn’t change my nutrients halfway through a grow unless something bad was going on and for you that’s not the case

Next run could always try organic, not much different when using bottled feeds

I’m going to start my organic grow with the 4 I am putting outside in the ground!

I have quite a bit of organic feeds including stuff I have made myself, powder banana skin, powder egg shell, ground dry rabbit poop. And also done some fermented plant juice, and I have a large worm compost bin that was mainly horse and rabbit poop that’s about 2 years old now that I keep adding greens bananas pumpkin tea leaves and selected items too , so got a good start on the microbes and great for my own compost t.

Buddy73 said:

View attachment 4878506I have quite a bit of organic feeds including stuff I have made myself, powder banana skin, powder egg shell, ground dry rabbit poop. And also done some fermented plant juice, and I have a large worm compost bin that was mainly horse and rabbit poop that’s about 2 years old now that I keep adding greens bananas pumpkin tea leaves and selected items too , so got a good start on the microbes and great for my own compost t.

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Nice man! Might wanna check out the organic thread. Those guys are much more knowledgeable than me on organics. I do the lazy way with bottles haha

She’s a big girl, cream cookie!

Now that’s a proper sized auto! Gonna be one hungry girl soon