BioBizz Light-Mix - sucky soil?

[blackone]

I've been growing with BioBizz light mix and my results haven't been too good. Seems like I get issues no matter how I use it. I'm using BioBizz Bio-Grow and Alg-A-Mic, and also Bio-Bloom in flower.
Freshly rooted clones and seedlings show burns and don't grow very fast really, mature plants get deficiencies...
When I just used a normal potting soil from a garden center mixed with perlite for vegging and cheap seedling soil for seedlings I had much healthier plants...
I won't be using Light-Mix again that's for sure, but I wonder if I should give All-Mix a try, or just mix my own using a normal garden center soil?

 

[bingobango]

Hi there dude,I grow with bio bizz but i use all mix.With the all mix i dont use any nutes for two weeks,then i start with nutes, i use the full range grow, bloom, topmax and bio heaven.You can get the feeding schedule off bio bizz website or from your local hydro store.As of yet i have had no problems apart from the odd blotch or slightly dead leaf at bottom,I start my girls off with aeroponics so as to get really strong roots witch seems to work well.I will say that i used the alg a mix and didnt really see any differance but then somebody could say different,the bio heaven is about £45 for a litre but boy is it worth it,really brings on the crystalls Oh and my guy at the grow shop said that light mix is for people who like total control and all mix is for the majority of us who still want control with a helping hand

 

[blackone]

Yeah I'm thinking Light-Mix is closer to being a soilless mix really - perhaps my real problem is that it doesn't do enough PH buffering and chelation because of the lack of wormcastings, making it harder to dial stuff in.

 

[N. Accumbens]

All-mix works very well...as does the light mix (for those of us that love the smell of a brewing tea).

Light mix is hardly a soil-less mix, mine is usually pretty much black like garden store soil. Black can not equal soil less without worm castings, it's black because there's composted material in there, which is a fairly good source of humates and fulvates (buffers and chelaters). It's just not "buffed up" in the nutritional sense...lower e.c.

I use it for easy to grow strain seedlings b/c they are frequently burned by nutes in the beginning. Some of my haze mixes need all-mix for the start so that adequate P is supplied. It's all about the tuning.

I honestly think light mix does well with teas...whereas the all mix is good for quick grows.
All-mix for mums.
Light mix for an emergency pre- flowering transplant.... so there is not too much N.
All mix as a top dressing if N is missing in early flower along with teas.

I don't use garden store soil because it usually carries an assemblage of insects with it...but my garden store is probably not your garden store so you have to check it out. If it weren't for the insects I'd be making my own soil mixes right now. I make my own mixes with the light mix from biobizz or grow mix from plagron...add a little perlite, guano, worm castings, trichoderma....pour over with kelp and molasses...add coco or peat sometimes...a little extra perlite for Sativas.

It's good soil.

The Accumbens' 2 cents...

 

[hedpi]

im using it with fishmix instead of biogrow, getting OK results but yeah, some mg def.. going to try epsom salt on the next wattering and see if it goes away..if not i'm going to bump the algamic and fishmix a bit and start giving bloom/grow as it contains n and mg (altough plants are in veg state).
next time im trying all mix

 

[guest101]

All-mix here!