Your articles by the way are great and I will be shopping for your book tomorrow. Would this be a good soil I can buy locally. The ingredients are as follows.loam, redwood compost,mujshroom compost, aged and washed cow manure,lava rock, lava sand,rice hulls, perlite,organic sea kelp,greensand,blood meal, mocha bat guano, and biozome. cost is $8 FOR 1.5CU FT they will deliver. Subcool I'm kinda lazy so could you tell me is this comparable and if I should add to this or substitute.

Thanks in advance
Dirrtyd

Looks good but ya cant really know untill you test it.

Great growers are never lazy!

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Thanks for the advice and I will strive to be a great grower some day. So more work to create great crops. Makes sense.

i was thinking just use super soil but i also was wondering how using growilla bud food for flowering would effect my grow do you think it will kill the plants like over feeding cuz the soil is strong by itself... thanks for all the info in advance

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if you feed at all with my super soil u will fry your plants
its 4.1 ec

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I tried to add some non food growth enhancers and shit went south, real fast, in an otherwise healthy grow. I then backed off and things improved. There was not damage perm. or serious but they showed some unhealthy signs and marks. I think that after cooking it with all the ingreds a perfect soil food web is built and to mess with it is wrong. I love my grow. I only add water.

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Hi Subcool,

I've got my first batch of super soil all mixed up and cooking out on my deck. All of it wouldn't fit in my compost tumbler so I have some in a plastic bin in a spare bedroom. I buried a seedling heat mat and the temps in there are around 85 in the soil so this might be a good option in the winter. I'm only using one seed mat for a small amount of soil so a full batch of super soil would probably require a soil heating cable or something more robust.

What is the ph of your water when you feed your plants? I saw where the ph of your mix should run off at around 6.5 when fed 7.0 water but I couldn't find if you routinely feed 7.0 water.

I'd like to try a TGA strain in my garden... do you have a TGA cross suggestion that can be managed to stay on the shorter side, under 4 feet without too much difficulty?

Thanks,
gpg

jw how long into the grow will your soil still be active i would imagine well over 6 months but i was considering a long veg out like a 8 month+ veg so like would your soil still be active at around 10-11 months

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Hey subcool, for some reason I don't have any PM privileges and you have your wallposts disabled, but I'm a new prospective grower looking for some advice on growing. I've read some of your posts and I'm very interested in having you give me some insight on my growing endeavors, if you could do me a favor and check my thread out in the Newbie Central which is Outdoor Growing - Need Help

It'd be great if you could give me some advice and I apologize if this isn't relavent to the thread, I just had no other way of contacting you.

the local gardening store has bulk organics for sale in small amounts... giant tubs of kelpmeal, alfalfa meal, worm castings, bone meal, blood meal, humate ore, etc. the problem is that they don't list the NPK values of any of these.

can i still follow this recipe if i just go and get exactly what i need without knowing the npk of any of the organic substance?

for example i asked the employee the NPK of the steamed bone meal and it was 1-12-0 as opposed to the 3-15-0 NPK on foxfarms boxed steamed bonemeal.

thanks for the insight.