So my first attempt at this was a failure, ready to try again. My grow information and troubles was posted here: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=256877
I determined the likely cause of the spots to be from early fertilization but hard to say for sure, they eventually did clear up. Turned into healthy looking but very small compact plants. Thick sturdy main stem with short branches and small leaves. Could have been a combination of over nute, bad soil (ph?) and low humidity (20-30%).
My question today is on soil. Being a micro grow I want to keep costs down and method simple. I have read a lot on organic growing which I would love to do, but my location does not have any grow shops or garden centers; limited to canadian tire, rona, home hardware, walmart, etc. I don't think it's practical to spend a bunch of money on soil additives only to use tea spoons at a time.
The soil I have is a home hardware store brand, not enriched (a la MG). Bought a soil test kit and found no trace of nutes and found PH to be 7-7.5 which isn't outrageous but watering with store bought RO, PH at 6.5-6.8 which I hope would naturally offset the soil PH.
I used approximately 40% perlite in my mix (not enriched), 2:1 rounded down. Is that too much? The soil was very airy, when watering it would almost immediately appear coming out the holes in the bottom. Seemed like the mix didn't hold much water.
I am ready start again, have humidity up to ~50%
Thanks!
I determined the likely cause of the spots to be from early fertilization but hard to say for sure, they eventually did clear up. Turned into healthy looking but very small compact plants. Thick sturdy main stem with short branches and small leaves. Could have been a combination of over nute, bad soil (ph?) and low humidity (20-30%).
My question today is on soil. Being a micro grow I want to keep costs down and method simple. I have read a lot on organic growing which I would love to do, but my location does not have any grow shops or garden centers; limited to canadian tire, rona, home hardware, walmart, etc. I don't think it's practical to spend a bunch of money on soil additives only to use tea spoons at a time.
The soil I have is a home hardware store brand, not enriched (a la MG). Bought a soil test kit and found no trace of nutes and found PH to be 7-7.5 which isn't outrageous but watering with store bought RO, PH at 6.5-6.8 which I hope would naturally offset the soil PH.
I used approximately 40% perlite in my mix (not enriched), 2:1 rounded down. Is that too much? The soil was very airy, when watering it would almost immediately appear coming out the holes in the bottom. Seemed like the mix didn't hold much water.
I am ready start again, have humidity up to ~50%
Thanks!
