Promix BX

[thegambler]

hhaha anyways. promix doesnt need any sort of special watering. just water slow at first so hit all the pots so u get the top soil wet.. and then go back and hit with more water to avoid water running off.. havent had any problems what so ever. nice beautiful dark green healthy plants.

Then you are lucky and have good water.....most of us don't.

 

[Hank Hemp]

In the past I've used 50% promix bx, 25% perlite and earth worm castings. Organic ferts has worked well for me. Look at Mr Soul's teas. Used pure blend pro grow/bloom. That will work.

 

[DrFever]

hhaha anyways. promix doesnt need any sort of special watering. just water slow at first so hit all the pots so u get the top soil wet.. and then go back and hit with more water to avoid water running off.. havent had any problems what so ever. nice beautiful dark green healthy plants.

Yup exactly again leave it to a grower to fck it all up

Pro-mix add some shit some compost little more perlite if you like don't let it dry out to bad , breakup top 2 inches of soil prior to watering and your set

 

[de145]

another Q, since it is soiless, or a type of hydro? what about taste and smell of the final product?
I keep reading that hydro nugs lack in that dept?

In my personal experience the taste and smell is overwhelmingly determined by four things:

- The phenotype of the plant (Absolutely no question you can grow out a bunch of seeds from even the most stable lines and you will often find a huge variety in they type of taste and smell and the strength of the taste /smell)

- The heat during growing (The difference in flavor in the same cutting between a summer grow at 24C and higher and a winter grow down around 20c is like night and day. Also why I think LED kicks ass in the taste and smell department for anyone who ever tries it: cooler temps)

- The level of nutes, excessive feeding throughout the grow causes less taste. More buds maybe but less taste. Flushing is beside the point because it's over the whole bloom period, not just at the very end.
Wine growers have known this for ... well forever. I saw a documentary the other day on an organic winery in europe somewhere and they needed to plant grass all around the vines to "use up the richness of the soil" because it was too rich and causes bland tasting grapes and shitty wine. Plants that have to work for it taste better.

- A screwed up cure (but only if you fuck it up. A cure doesn't bring out a smell that wasn't there already at harvest time, it just doesn't, but you can sure screw up the taste with too quick a dry or too wet a cure)


I think hydro gets the bad rep mostly because the majority of hydro is aimed at commercial production and they want big buds so they feed the shit out of them and come as close to burning them as possible without actually doing it with super bright lights and C02 and what have you: happy, fat, quick growing plants are not tasty plants.

 

[Hazed]

Pro Mix BX is good shit!
Scratch the top of the soil an inch deep and ya wont have so much compaction and water running down the sides cause that mulch will help keep it from over drying underneath.
Heavier soils grow fruits and veggies with higher sugar content and better flavor than sht grown in sand and watered every 30 mins, lol. This goes for weed too believe it or not, lol!

Amend, amend, amend! Low nitrates from many sources is always better than a shit ton of nitrates from foxfarm, AN...

Im using Coco right now, hand watering twice a day and for working my ass off over the last 8 weeks, I have gained one week on harvest, lol. Good luck to ya!

 

[ThaMagnificent]

ProMix fan checking in also!

 

[the gnome]

OK...... glad i picked it up, sounds like the possibilities with PMix are unlimited.
i saw it sitting in the store and it sat for 3-4 months, the same bale.
so i asked about it,
it was s special order and they buyer never showed, she said i could have it for $20, she just wanted to get rid of it.
I figured i could do something with it in the veggy garden and i know I had seen it many times here on the boards so what the hell.... best $20 I spent in the store all day long

 

[TNJed]

In the past I've used 50% promix bx, 25% perlite and earth worm castings. Organic ferts has worked well for me. Look at Mr Soul's teas. Used pure blend pro grow/bloom. That will work.

We seem to have much in common, my friend. That's the exact mix I use, and I am also a man from the South who digs Hank III.

 

[smog]

im looking from some good promix grows had herd the name krome but cant find em. any one got any good links

 

[AlterEgo860]

been using promix for 6 years.. before that was FFOF and Happy Frog mixed 1:1 .. and before that was FFOF and Light Warrior 1:1

promix.. can provide all the nutes with your waterings or amend it. works well both ways..

im going to be amending next round.. this round im reusing my soil.. and adding mycos and flushed it before hand with pure water.. then added 1/2 strength nutes flushed till water was coming out the bottom.. added the mycos an shite after the pure water flush. wen the soil wasn't soaked.

 

[ThaMagnificent]

i have promix bails but refuse to use em. im stuck in the coco mode. promix can be ammended with more perlite or coco or mixed with any dry additives you like. the soil gets crusty and water likes to run down the side when watered. it cant be watered like coco but holds onto nutrients much longer so less ferts needed.

many people use it with success. ive seen many plants on here grown in it that are fantastic.that nute regime seems like a good one for promix as well. as long as u provide all the nutes with all the micros and the npk, youll be fine. try a container on the side and see how you like it. if i recall i never had any bugs in mine as well. i always washed the plastic before anything entered the g room includind those hard to get seems. you could also leave em in the sun in a black plastic bag and bake it sterilise it that way if you worried bout pests. a car works well for sterilizing as well in the summer.

This one has stumped me for a while. Do you use liquid coco or soil nutes when feeding or does it not matter with a promix/coco mixture?