manphredd
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Semi-newb need some feedback from all ya´ll od veterans. Soil mix & planting holes.
Hey-hoe! What´s up, matey´s?
First off, i want to tell you guys a little bit about myself. I have a couple of years indoor growing experience, but i am a semi-total od guerilla growing noob, besides growing veggies then. But i guess that´s kinda alike. Anyways, i´m at 57N. That´s like north of Denmark, or south of Sweden. Or very north of Scotland.
I am a planting hole super noob, i have never in my entire life, dug a planting hole. And this year i am going to do multiple ones. I would really appreciate your feedback. Let me explain what i am thinking to do, and if something comes to mind while you reading this, please just write a couple of words.
I am going to get going out there in the woods soon. It´s about 4-6 weeks until planting out the babies. And this is the first time i will prepare, and growing in planting holes. Last year, that was my very first guerilla grow run, i grew in pots and bags. The plants did very good until something unfortunate happened that i´m not going to get into now. You guys probably can guess.
Last spring, during my guerilla od prep, i had such a hard time. And i am not supposed to carry heavy stuff. I was carrying bags of soil out into the woods. I hauled maybe 200-300 liters of ready soil mix out there. I took maybe at most 50 liters each time, and i thought at many times i would croke. It was a major fu*king PITA.
Ok, so this time i thought i would make it easier for myself. And i am planning to mix native soil from the planting holes with coco and/or perlite/vermiculite. The spot where i am growing there is much sandy, sometimes red sandy soil. And i need it to "fluff it up" a little bit.
I bought four large, heavy ass coco bricks (5 kg expanded = 70 liters), They were very expencive, so i will have to wait a couple of weeks, but i am going to buy two or three bricks more soon. I also going to get some more perlite and vermiculite.
My plan as i wrote, is to dig large planting holes, get rid of the bottom part of the soil, and use the perlite and coco coir to fluff up the native top soil. I am also going to mix in lime and a algea based slow release fertilizer. Maybe half strenght, so nature can take it´s course a little bit at least.
What do you think guys? If you guys have some feedback i would really appreciate it.
Ps. A buddy on another forum said to me that he thought that i should expand, and rinse out the salt in the coco before hauling it out. That´s a major PITA. That will fu*k up, and miss the whole point of getting the coco in the first place.
Can´t i just carry it out, and lay it on the ground and let the rain rinse it a couple of weeks? Or can that result in something bad, like pests or such?
Ps 2. As i grew in pots last year, can i maybe re-use the soil of the plants that didn´t make it very long? Males, deer food and such.
Peace out guys!
/H.
Hey-hoe! What´s up, matey´s?
First off, i want to tell you guys a little bit about myself. I have a couple of years indoor growing experience, but i am a semi-total od guerilla growing noob, besides growing veggies then. But i guess that´s kinda alike. Anyways, i´m at 57N. That´s like north of Denmark, or south of Sweden. Or very north of Scotland.
I am a planting hole super noob, i have never in my entire life, dug a planting hole. And this year i am going to do multiple ones. I would really appreciate your feedback. Let me explain what i am thinking to do, and if something comes to mind while you reading this, please just write a couple of words.
I am going to get going out there in the woods soon. It´s about 4-6 weeks until planting out the babies. And this is the first time i will prepare, and growing in planting holes. Last year, that was my very first guerilla grow run, i grew in pots and bags. The plants did very good until something unfortunate happened that i´m not going to get into now.
You guys probably can guess.Last spring, during my guerilla od prep, i had such a hard time. And i am not supposed to carry heavy stuff. I was carrying bags of soil out into the woods. I hauled maybe 200-300 liters of ready soil mix out there. I took maybe at most 50 liters each time, and i thought at many times i would croke. It was a major fu*king PITA.
Ok, so this time i thought i would make it easier for myself. And i am planning to mix native soil from the planting holes with coco and/or perlite/vermiculite. The spot where i am growing there is much sandy, sometimes red sandy soil. And i need it to "fluff it up" a little bit.
I bought four large, heavy ass coco bricks (5 kg expanded = 70 liters), They were very expencive, so i will have to wait a couple of weeks, but i am going to buy two or three bricks more soon. I also going to get some more perlite and vermiculite.
My plan as i wrote, is to dig large planting holes, get rid of the bottom part of the soil, and use the perlite and coco coir to fluff up the native top soil. I am also going to mix in lime and a algea based slow release fertilizer. Maybe half strenght, so nature can take it´s course a little bit at least.
What do you think guys? If you guys have some feedback i would really appreciate it.
Ps. A buddy on another forum said to me that he thought that i should expand, and rinse out the salt in the coco before hauling it out. That´s a major PITA. That will fu*k up, and miss the whole point of getting the coco in the first place.
Can´t i just carry it out, and lay it on the ground and let the rain rinse it a couple of weeks? Or can that result in something bad, like pests or such?
Ps 2. As i grew in pots last year, can i maybe re-use the soil of the plants that didn´t make it very long? Males, deer food and such.
Peace out guys!
/H.
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