Greenhouse Soil

[Bluffacres]

First time growing by myself. I grew hemp the past two years but wasn't a part of ordering greenhouse soil. Had a falling out (which NEVER happens in this industry, right?) and am on my own this year.

Going to start in a greenhouse and transplant to my field.

I dove into multiple sites and forums and a lot of people have their own mix with a lot of complicated recipes.

I’ve been reading about all kinds of soil all morning and come to the conclusion that hemp does great in standard greenhouse soil with added worm castings. The more complicated the mix, the more potential to screw you. If tomatoes, strawberries, etc, grow well in a soil, hemp will too. Most important thing is PH balance. (6)

Can anyone confirm or dispute this?

 

[MedGrowerTom]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=53792

/\ this thread, all the answers you need

 

[Bluffacres]

Thank you

 

[bsgospel]

Yeah it's very much the same across the spectrum. Don't overthink it, you'll do fine.

 

[dank.frank]

I disagree. Sure, it will be "fine". I mean, SOMEONE has to be growing the all the reggies and the mids out there on the market.

Two environments - one around the roots and one around the foliage. Any and all sacrifices you make concerning one of those environments and you'll see a reduction in plant physiology, which ultimately means not the proper resources to allow the plant to perform at it's optimum.

Mix your soil wrong and you'll spend all season chasing your tail. Mix it right and you spend all season doing absolutely nothing but watering. Take short cuts and you'll see it in your plants performance at different intervals throughout the season. That aside, with no set NPK values on these mixes, you have no intelligent means of even coming to a conclusion how much you should use in a field setting vs a created/structured potting soil.

Unless you know how to convert these soil mixes in these threads to something meaningful in a field setting, ie getting these recipes to be reflective of lbs/acre application rate...then they will serve very little purpose for you in the grand scheme of things.



dank.Frank

 

[TychoMonolyth]

I'm not talking seed starting mix, which should be a light and airy. But at first transplant, your seedling should go into a healthy mix and a good size pot. I think about 2-3 transplants in bigger pots before it's final resting place in the ground. I can't get a good super soil here, so I make my own. I use this recipe.

It's easy and you won't have to feed. Just water.
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Feeding once you get it in the ground depends on if and how you amend the holes in your field.

 

[big315smooth]

do animals not mess with super soil as much cause its cooked. i mixed right out there few different time to come back to dug up hole's. it sucked. thinking racoons

 

['Boogieman']

do animals not mess with super soil as much cause its cooked. i mixed right out there few different time to come back to dug up hole's. it sucked. thinking racoons

They stop messing with it after about a month of cooking where I live. Probably raccoons, possibly coyotes. Fish meal, crab shells, blood and bone meal are usually what attracts them.

 

[big315smooth]

ya thats what i figured the blood/bone meal got something excited out there scraped down all the way to bottom damn animals

 

[art.spliff]

Don't judge me, I make my own potting mix!
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[TychoMonolyth]

Cooking your own supersoil will absolutely invite the curious. I lost a huge number of plants last year (about 300). I knew they'd be dug up, and was prepared to lose 75%. Well, I ended up with only 10%. Deer, mice, rabbits, and raccoons. I had a few caged and the cages were mangled up pretty good, but the plants lived. Cages are a must. I'm putting in a lot more this year, and about half have cages.

The ones that don't have cages don't have anything to attract attention (blood/bone,fish, etc.), but I've set up a few strategically placed holes that have tons of shit animals will love. I'm hoping they'll focus on them as a distraction.