Biobizz Light mix + Plagron Bat mix for Ethiopian

[Mateiro]

Hello everyone guys! Can you tell me which commercial potting soil mix from growshop is most suitable for the growth of the Ethiopia strain? I have access to all popular soil lines. These are Biobizz, Atami, Plagron..etc.

Will Biobizz Light mix be too hot for young seedlings? Next, I plan to transplant the strengthened plants into Plagron Batmix. Will the Plagron Batmix be too hot at 4-5 weeks of growth?

If you think that Biobizz Light mix is too hot for seedlings, then can I drain it with a lot of water to wash the accumulated salts?
Maybe wash the batmix and germinate seedlings right into it?

 

[Koondense]

LightMix for seedlings and veg
Batmix + LightMix for last transplant in stretch(a few weeks of 12/12)

Cheers

 

[Mateiro]

LightMix for seedlings and veg
Batmix + LightMix for last transplant in stretch(a few weeks of 12/12)

Cheers

This is concrete for Ethiopian strain?

 

[Koondense]

Works good for most sativas.
Depends on your grow style and space available, but using just the light mix you will need to add more nutrients after a month, with a mixed soil you have a more balanced availability of food for your plants.
Your Ethiopians are regular seeds so until you find out the females and transplant them your light mix will be ok, later when in flowering they will need more food. It's best to follow the development of the plants and see when they will show signs of hunger.

Cheers

 

[Mateiro]

Works good for most sativas.
Depends on your grow style and space available, but using just the light mix you will need to add more nutrients after a month, with a mixed soil you have a more balanced availability of food for your plants.
Your Ethiopians are regular seeds so until you find out the females and transplant them your light mix will be ok, later when in flowering they will need more food. It's best to follow the development of the plants and see when they will show signs of hunger.

Cheers

Did you grow Ethiopian?

 

[Koondense]

No.

 

[dubi]

Hi @Mateiro sorry, i somehow overlooked your thread.

I do not use branded soil for almost 20 years, i prefer to prepare it myself and adjust every soil mix with different blends of high quality peat, coco, worm casting and guano, depending on the requirements of the strain, parent plant and stage of the grow.

As far as i have seen from other growers experiences here in the forums, Bio Bizz light mix works very well during growth stage for pure sativa strains (Ethiopian included) that prefer softer feeding. If you also like to feed with bottled fertilizers during flowering, then Bio Bizz light will still be a good choice for that stage, or use a more enriched soil for flowering and feed lesser by hand.

Please, keep us updated on your Ethiopian grow.

 

[Mateiro]

Hi @Mateiro sorry, i somehow overlooked your thread.

I do not use branded soil for almost 20 years, i prefer to prepare it myself and adjust every soil mix with different blends of high quality peat, coco, worm casting and guano, depending on the requirements of the strain, parent plant and stage of the grow.

As far as i have seen from other growers experiences here in the forums, Bio Bizz light mix works very well during growth stage for pure sativa strains (Ethiopian included) that prefer softer feeding. If you also like to feed with bottled fertilizers during flowering, then Bio Bizz light will still be a good choice for that stage, or use a more enriched soil for flowering and feed lesser by hand.

Please, keep us updated on your Ethiopian grow.

thank you!

 

[Mateiro]

Hi @Mateiro sorry, i somehow overlooked your thread.

I do not use branded soil for almost 20 years, i prefer to prepare it myself and adjust every soil mix with different blends of high quality peat, coco, worm casting and guano, depending on the requirements of the strain, parent plant and stage of the grow.

As far as i have seen from other growers experiences here in the forums, Bio Bizz light mix works very well during growth stage for pure sativa strains (Ethiopian included) that prefer softer feeding. If you also like to feed with bottled fertilizers during flowering, then Bio Bizz light will still be a good choice for that stage, or use a more enriched soil for flowering and feed lesser by hand.

Please, keep us updated on your Ethiopian grow.

Hello Dubi! Can you tell me, how can I check up the quality of my peat? I checked runoff and it is super clean (45 ppm from 0.5 L pot). I am saturate the media first, then give it to get some runoff. Also Ph is around 6. Can I trust to high quality PPM meter when I mix it with EWC? My EWC seems too hot. I get 4000 ppm from 0.5 L pot. Mixing 10% with peat burned my seedlings. First true leaves are yellow/white and they die after develop 3 nodes... I see somewhere some growers washed EWC and peat from salt excess. Also they recommend to warming up the mix before use.

 

[Mateiro]

Hi @Mateiro sorry, i somehow overlooked your thread.

I do not use branded soil for almost 20 years, i prefer to prepare it myself and adjust every soil mix with different blends of high quality peat, coco, worm casting and guano, depending on the requirements of the strain, parent plant and stage of the grow.

As far as i have seen from other growers experiences here in the forums, Bio Bizz light mix works very well during growth stage for pure sativa strains (Ethiopian included) that prefer softer feeding. If you also like to feed with bottled fertilizers during flowering, then Bio Bizz light will still be a good choice for that stage, or use a more enriched soil for flowering and feed lesser by hand.

Please, keep us updated on your Ethiopian grow.

 

[Podenco]

I have good results with Biobizz light. I can assume that all bags are the same, they seem to have good quality control. I do have bad experiences with older bags of stronger fertilized soil, maybe a bad batch, maybe my own fault cause stored too long or too wet.

EWC is a gamble, hard to tell the quality.

If I were you I would stick to Biobizz light and not mix, only add volume/airiness by mixing perlite or good quality buffered coco. And fertilize lightly with well known and trusted fertilizer brands.

For all my (sativa) grows I use Biobizz light or Canna professional with 10-20% extra perlite, 10% extra coco (Canna bags, not bricks) with 1 good tablespoon of lava meal per 10 L. I fertilize with Plagron alga grow and bloom at lowest concentration.

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