inc0gnit0
Active member
This is my 1st attempt at an organic soil grow. Usually i just buy a good pre-mixed soil and
use it with little or no problems. But, I recently got bitten by the "All organic" bug and
have found that, i don't know what the hell I'm doing. I may have just screwed up
a perfectly healthy couple of fine little plants. I just transplanted 2 very nice females
that are about a month old into a batch of homemade composted organic soil. About 5
days later they are both exhibiting a rather increasingly benign case of the claw. Looks
like too much Nitrogen in the mix, cause i wasn't thinking. Ok, I know you guys are gonna
say my soil wasn't right and now I know this but this is what i used in the soil mix:
5 gal top soil
2 gal composted cow manure "planting soil"
1 Tblsp per gal. Blood meal
1 Tblsp per gal. Bone Meal
2 Tblsp per gal. Dolomite lime
Vermiculite
epsom salts
gypsum
I moistened it and let it sit for about a week and a half, mixing it every now and then.
It gave off a very earthy, rich, quiet pleasent smell indeed. To us gardeners anyway. Seemed
to be warm at the middle and bottom. Not Hot, just warmer than the top.
The Plants were preflowering, just noticed the first signs of the female perssuaion, about a week
and a day. I might also add at this point, that they have been stressed a bit by heat on and off
in their lives, so this may be a factor as well.
I replanted them today and started them slowly back into veg. I used a scaled down mixture
16 lbs organic no fertz added soil
8qt Perlite
4qt Peat Moss
about 6qt of the previous soil mix
14 Tblsp Lime.
2 qt Vermiculite
Filled to 5 inches below the rim of an 18 gal storage container.
The pics are about 1 hour after transplant. I didn't have access to kelp meal or Wormcastings.
Yeah, I could order them but it's a real hassle for me. I'm gonna swallow my pride here and ask
from the organics experts here, What do I need to be doing?
use it with little or no problems. But, I recently got bitten by the "All organic" bug and
have found that, i don't know what the hell I'm doing. I may have just screwed up
a perfectly healthy couple of fine little plants. I just transplanted 2 very nice females
that are about a month old into a batch of homemade composted organic soil. About 5
days later they are both exhibiting a rather increasingly benign case of the claw. Looks
like too much Nitrogen in the mix, cause i wasn't thinking. Ok, I know you guys are gonna
say my soil wasn't right and now I know this but this is what i used in the soil mix:
5 gal top soil
2 gal composted cow manure "planting soil"
1 Tblsp per gal. Blood meal
1 Tblsp per gal. Bone Meal
2 Tblsp per gal. Dolomite lime
Vermiculite
epsom salts
gypsum
I moistened it and let it sit for about a week and a half, mixing it every now and then.
It gave off a very earthy, rich, quiet pleasent smell indeed. To us gardeners anyway. Seemed
to be warm at the middle and bottom. Not Hot, just warmer than the top.
The Plants were preflowering, just noticed the first signs of the female perssuaion, about a week
and a day. I might also add at this point, that they have been stressed a bit by heat on and off
in their lives, so this may be a factor as well.
I replanted them today and started them slowly back into veg. I used a scaled down mixture
16 lbs organic no fertz added soil
8qt Perlite
4qt Peat Moss
about 6qt of the previous soil mix
14 Tblsp Lime.
2 qt Vermiculite
Filled to 5 inches below the rim of an 18 gal storage container.
The pics are about 1 hour after transplant. I didn't have access to kelp meal or Wormcastings.
Yeah, I could order them but it's a real hassle for me. I'm gonna swallow my pride here and ask
from the organics experts here, What do I need to be doing?