I am new to growing

[Gruetoo]

Your girls are looking good. Have you decided on which method your going to use to raise them? Dirt/COCO/Hydro? I am sure with a bit of reading here you will be sucessful. Good luck to you and your hopefull Girls.

Gruetoo

 

[Ooterz]

I will go with soil. I have my biggest in its organic mix. I will admit, try not to cringe to hard but it's in an Maracle grow organic mix it's a 2 month deal, I had mixed it with peat and perlite so it would not be so potent for my new plant. I would like to look into xmobotx's methods for full organic growing.

 

[xmobotx]

at least you mixed the MG down a notch

seen quite a few who started w/ pre-amended mixes like that PLUS put their own amendments on

next time you water; cut a chunk of aloe and squeez the stufz in the water ~think like TBS/gallon but; less is fine too ~only takes a little

 

[Ooterz]

O yea guys I took those pictures a couple hours ago, of all 3 plants. The second picture the leaf that is pointing towards you the lower one of the two has yellow at the tip now hours later I water every other day. It's in peat moss and perlite it's about a foot away from the CFls. It's about 75 to 85 degrees in the environment. Is it ready for some food perhaps? Meaning a transplant. It has been about two weeks in that peat and per mix.

 

[xmobotx]

theres plenty of food in your mix already
85* is a little warm depending

 

[Ooterz]

I will give the aloe a try tonight had to go to my source for it tho lol. Maybe I will cut more air vents

 

[xmobotx]

i think you will like the aloe

 

[Ooterz]

Dang it I forgot to grab some b4 I went home. Started doing pizzas tonight sold a couple wooh hopefully biz picks up .

 

[FunTimesIndeed]

I will go with soil. I have my biggest in its organic mix. I will admit, try not to cringe to hard but it's in an Maracle grow organic mix it's a 2 month deal, I had mixed it with peat and perlite so it would not be so potent for my new plant. I would like to look into xmobotx's methods for full organic growing.

Good choice. Making my own potting mix worked out the best for me. It's a lot easier than most perceive it to be.

 

[Ooterz]

Yea I once read few good words. "It's just a weed" and "don't kill it with love" I try to keep it that simple.

 

[xmobotx]

more and more; i think my early potting mixes were not simple enough

been kinda saying around the place how i think a 'seedling mix' w/ a little 'good' compost top-dressed would be a good way to go

most people kill their plants w/ some over-watering love

 

[Ooterz]

Their is my 2 plants now in lst. And my little getting big

 

[xmobotx]

hell yeah

 

[Ooterz]

I just topped my bigget and fimmed a blade off one my fan leafs lol it seems to be doing ok less than 12 hours later

 

[xmobotx]

yeah; no worries ~its a pretty resilient weed

didja try the aloe? you gotta get some sprout rinse on those too!

 

[Ooterz]

I did do the aloe i really didn't notice much

 

[xmobotx]

ooters check out this thread to see how this guy is applying aloe via foliar sprays

his regimen is actually based on the advice of our resident organic gurus; as i recall its a silica product {ag-sil or pro-tekt} aloe & possibly something like lavender tea {though i thik he is just spraying aloe and ag-sil}

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[Ooterz]

Yea i just seen one nat hanging out in my grow area on top of a leaf gay.

 

[xmobotx]

long as they arent bubbling up out of the soil when you water no big deal but yeah; just a little neem seed meal puts a quick end to soil-born woes from insects and; its not too big a deal to mix a weak tea and strain for spraying like spider mites and such too

right now today there are grows on here afflicted w problems a neem seed meal user wouldnt even think twice about ~same w/ karanja meal

oddly that stuff can go in the worm bin w/o any ill effects to the worms and many of the other beneficial bugs in the bin

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[Ooterz]