Tutorial Organics for Beginners

[greenspace]

It's hot. I think it's for heavy eaters like Big Bud, Chronic, Critical Mass and the like.
Burn1

Thanks BurnOne. I mixed it with peat/perlite/ewc at a 1 to 1 ratio and the plants seemed to really like that.

I have grown some of the most amazing bud with these soil mixes, I can't tell you how many people tell me this is the best bud they have ever smoked.

I am growing just a single strain as my main producer, Jock Horror, which I started from seed in 2005. Been cloning her ever since.

 

[noknees]

anyone here tried running the fish and seaweed formulas through blumats? or in hempys?

seems to me if you could get blumats to run right, that would be about as easy & simple as it gets. (drip clean?)

 

[Chevy cHaze]

anyone here tried running the fish and seaweed formulas through blumats? or in hempys?

seems to me if you could get blumats to run right, that would be about as easy & simple as it gets. (drip clean?)

Don't do it! Running anything other than chemical ferts through blumats will sludge them the small diameter feedlines up. And even with chem ferts I'd clean my driplines after every grow as they've gone shut on me before years ago.ESPECIALLY all organic ferts I've ever known will cause problems.
I've resorted to putting everything in my soil as per Lavender Cowboy's recipe and now go water only through the Blumats all through harvest. Teas by hand on top occasionally...

CC

 

[noknees]

I've resorted to putting everything in my soil as per Lavender Cowboy's recipe and now go water only through the Blumats all through harvest. Teas by hand on top occasionally...

CC

 

[Chevy cHaze]

And let me add that not only is by far the easiest way to grow I've ever experienced, the final product is of a quality both taste and effect wise that I still need to find in chemically grown weed (But let's not start that debate ;-)

 

[greenspace]

For the people that use LC1 mix: do you use regular peat, Pro Mix HP or coco and why?

I use plain peat and about the only issue that I have with my mix is that it's a bit heavy at times and slow to dry out. I am using 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled on the bottom and sides to assist with the aeration and I usually up the ratio of perlite in the mix to 5 parts peat/4 parts perlite/2 parts EWC but even that seems slow to dry.

If I halve the EWC will it drastically reduce the microbial activity? Should I switch over to coco?

 

[Dr.Young]

You have to give long dry cycles and make sure your not flooding the mix....I've heard recently to prewet soil with water, and never feed dry roots nute water. When they are small they need more humidity water than ground water really.... Having them in the right size pot so they are strong enough to handle a full container flood is what i do. Let them stay a little dry on transplants and search for water.. When they have control of the container then you can water/feed heavy.

I'm doing a fresh mix with Promix bx now.... Gotta get perlite... and more Ewc.... I think the 3.8 cuft bale busts down to 7 cubic foot... so... I'll do 6 cu Promix 2 cu Perlite 2 cu Earthworm...... or whatever gallon measures it ends up... Should be bout 75-80 gallon of mix.

 

[noknees]

For the people that use LC1 mix: do you use regular peat, Pro Mix HP or coco and why?

I use plain peat and about the only issue that I have with my mix is that it's a bit heavy at times and slow to dry out. I am using 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled on the bottom and sides to assist with the aeration and I usually up the ratio of perlite in the mix to 5 parts peat/4 parts perlite/2 parts EWC but even that seems slow to dry.

If I halve the EWC will it drastically reduce the microbial activity? Should I switch over to coco?

could just try fabric pots.

 

[Dr.Young]

that too

 

[greenspace]

I am sure fabric pots would help but I just don't have the $ to drop on that right now.

We have been stuck in some pretty cold air lately and I think that was playing a role in my mix staying wet longer than usual. The nighttime temps were dropping into the mid 60's and I guess my sativa girls didn't like that so I have upped that and dropped the amount of water used with each watering and that seems to have made the girls happy again.

I may start using a 1-3" rock base in my larger 5 gallon pots or cut back the amount of soil used.

 

[EMoose]

Legendary post. so helpful. thank you.

 

[Chevy cHaze]

For the people that use LC1 mix: do you use regular peat, Pro Mix HP or coco and why?

I use plain peat and about the only issue that I have with my mix is that it's a bit heavy at times and slow to dry out. I am using 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled on the bottom and sides to assist with the aeration and I usually up the ratio of perlite in the mix to 5 parts peat/4 parts perlite/2 parts EWC but even that seems slow to dry.

If I halve the EWC will it drastically reduce the microbial activity? Should I switch over to coco?

I use canna coco in fabric pots. No problem to use peat but I wanted to go with sth. more sustainable.
Careful with anything that's pre-charged with ferts would be my only advice...


Fabric pots will help with aeration and quicker drying out, but watch out that you don't put your blumats too close to the walls, as that drying has the same effect on them as plants sucking up water from the soil and it might set off the blumats early, especially when the pots are not fully rooted.



I don't think you can really overdo EWCs and less will only give you a slightly slower start as you're adding less microbes...

 

[Vhghost]

Hello all, long time hydro guy wanting to go back to where I started.. organic.
Looking for some advice on a nice only add water recipe(willing to do a few teas during flower if necessary) just trying to keep it simple.
Here is what my recipe consists of, just wanted some input first.
3parts pro mix JP
3parts fox farm ocean forest
2P wc
2p perlite
2tbsp dolomite lime per gal
1tbsp blood and kelp per gal
2tbsp bone
1/2 tbsp greens and per gal.
Just wanted to make sure this will work. Thank you very much

 

[big315smooth]

I run a super soil mix then hit the teas as needed organic all the way

 

[rolnik1]

Hey guys, i used lc1 recipe 1 few times and always get like 1-2days of composting, when mix gets little warm, after that it smells like proper earth. Is that some bad sign? I also started seeds in it and there was little to no difference in growth.

 

[aridbud]

Hey guys, i used lc1 recipe 1 few times and always get like 1-2days of composting, when mix gets little warm, after that it smells like proper earth. Is that some bad sign? I also started seeds in it and there was little to no difference in growth.

That's a good sign....dirt/soil should have a good smell. Way to grow!!

 

[big315smooth]

just got budswel and molasses tday gonna run tea's on next run gotta dig out old fish air pump and stone. switched to try gh organics work well going back to teas tho

 

[Alexphillips]

thanx for the recipes. lot of help

 

[BurnOne]

Thank you to everyone who tried and even better to those who succeeded in using the info in this thread to become self reliant and grow your own without taxation and inflated prices of this harmless plant. Grow on my friends. My time here is complete. I only hope I made just one person have their own grow. If so it was well worth my time here. I wish I could meet every one of you, shake your hand and say well done.
Farewell and God bless.
Burn1
Fuck it. I'm out.

 

[noknees]

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