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GimmieThe Loot

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I would like to mix my own soil to where I wouldn't need lots of nutes or nun at all if possible. Somebody please let me know what ingridents and how much to add to fox farms of. I also heard about letting your soil cook??? Lately I been growing in happy frog at the top and ocean forest at the bottom mix with some perlite, along with emerald harvest Cali pro a&b grow and bloom nutes plus additives.
 

JavaCo

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If you want to mix your own soil the first step is getting rid of the FOX farms OF and HF. Those are already mixed soils. You might want to go up to the Super Soil forum (Subcools)and read all you can there. Plenty of posted mixes in there using single ingredients.
 

swedsteven

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Or just remix your old medium with compost 25/100 garden lime 1cup a cuft and go with some ammendment i found that 25 pounds of already mix ammendment for 150can botanicare growilla . Grow and bud for flowering top feed 1 cup each m2 every 2 week. Happy new year
 

dtl420

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I have one going organic right now, I used Dr. Earth garden soil as my base. I added bone meal, feather meal, blood meal, kelp meal, alfalfa, Jamaican guano (I think, whichever one is 0-0-12), earth worm castings, perlite, vermiculite, coconut coir, and great white (glomus intraradices)+water soluble myco grow from www.fungi.com. But a great place to start is subcool's super soil. Get that down, then you'll start to get the hang of it. I'm to the point to where I don't really measure anything. I mix small batches and just add a little of this a little of that.

And don't forget, you don't have to buy "nutrients" for organics. It's better to use things like liquid kelp, guano, fish emulsions, and compost teas to feed when once they've used up what was currently available in the soil. I feel that to do organics properly you need to have a decent foundation of knowledge in such subjects as soil ecology, mycology, botany, and some chemistry. You need to understand the process in which organic matter breaks down, and the rate at which they do. Then you'll understand how to care for those microscopic things that break down the organic matter, how much of each amendment to add, and what to use and when to use it once you have to add more food to the soil.
 

ShLUbY

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I would like to mix my own soil to where I wouldn't need lots of nutes or nun at all if possible. Somebody please let me know what ingridents and how much to add to fox farms of. I also heard about letting your soil cook??? Lately I been growing in happy frog at the top and ocean forest at the bottom mix with some perlite, along with emerald harvest Cali pro a&b grow and bloom nutes plus additives.
go the ROLS thread, and all the information you need is in there within the first 10 pages. and it's a whole new process of growing. if you have only grown with bottles, basically forget everything you know about growing when switching to water only. Keep your soil moist ALL THE TIME, do NOT let it dry out. go do some reading in the rols thread and make sure you understand what you're getting yourself into. it can be easy for some, and is very different and difficult for many others who do not prepare properly. Don't be afraid to take constructive criticisms. There are lots of good folks on here who know this inside and out! Good Luck :)
 
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