Help with my super soil

It’s my first run around with a fairly large sized cannabis grow. I just started mixing my soil, after adding several different organic amendments. I understand some peoples grow mold, is it bad if mine doesn’t ? & when it’s cooking can I use just unfiltered hose water? Lastly I need to mix the soil as it’s cooking every so often as well as water it correct ?

Hey man, not sure about the mold, I think it's all right if yours doesn't grow mold. You can use unfiltered water, let it rest for a day in order to let the chlorine evaporate, it's bad for microbes. And yeah mix it, let the mix sit, and water a little when you see it's getting dry. It needs to keep a little moist for the microbes to live.

In general when your letting the soil cook is it better to cover it or leave it exposed to light?

Just an FYI, you can use powdered vitamin C to get rid of the chlorine and chloramines. You need a tiny amount per gallon-30 mg or so. To give you an idea, one gallon would use just the tiniest bit on the edge of a spoon, or say, a full bathtub would be like a teaspoon. I buy it by the LB on Amazon for like $12 and it lasts forever.

Dreminen169 said:

In general when your letting the soil cook is it better to cover it or leave it exposed to light?

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Not sure, but a lot of people let it sit in the garden. I erased my last comment because I remembered that when I watered slowly and saturated my soil I had a plant already in it. My bad. Now that I remember my soil mix was moist because I did it with reused promix, and I had to wash it (I used bottled ferts the previous grow), the pro mix kept my whole soil mix moist. But I guess if I had to do it again with dry promix I would just water it the same, because I've seen people do it that way.

Rurumo said:

Just an FYI, you can use powdered vitamin C to get rid of the chlorine and chloramines. You need a tiny amount per gallon-30 mg or so. To give you an idea, one gallon would use just the tiniest bit on the edge of a spoon, or say, a full bathtub would be like a teaspoon. I buy it by the LB on Amazon for like $12 and it lasts forever.

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That's a good tip man, great for big amounts of water, thanks.

Dreminen169 said:

In general when your letting the soil cook is it better to cover it or leave it exposed to light?

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My totes of soil sit in the dark with the lid upside down and a little crooked to let some air in.