I got some the day I put up the first post, and swapped a few AF's that weren't doing to well into it at a ration of 2:1 with perilite. All signs of nute burn stopped, and the plants REALLY took off. This is the same strain I started another thread on that the 3rd set of leaves I had problems with growing in yellow, the G13 AF that they stopped selling for a while. It's not the normal AF easy grow. The nute ratio is really good though, I flushed it once before adding the plant and will continue to use a slightly watered down (no pun intended) grow big and big bloom. @previous poster, those little balls I believe are potassium, it's the way to delay them to flowering time. I've never crushed them, and I will state that normal MG I've never had good results. As for it not being a good beginner soil, if you throw some perilite in it, might as well be MG perilite while we're at it since it has the same nute ratio, you may actually be able to grow it without adding nutes. Not that I'd advise it, but I watered 3 party cups with this soil. Put an over watering, and underwatering, and an average watering, and one of plain top soil with perilite as a control. The over watering drained about as much as the control, the average watering held it all, and the underwatering obviously held it all. 2 days later, using the moisture meter that was recommended, the 3 MG's had almost the same moisture level and were all 3 about the same as the control, so the moisture control actually does work. I'm going to see how long I can go before they go totally dry, will keep up to date.
Again, I hate MG regular. This is by no way an endorsement of their nutes or regular soil. This is just the moisture control, which I have found to be a very forgiving soil and with the mositure control, if I do get nute burn I know I can flush the hell out of it and give it an extra day to recover because of the stored water.
fortunately it popped male.