Miracle Grow

i found that germinating in a cup is good to start off. im a newbie myself and i just figured one day (about a week ago) why dont i just start growing my shit. im using miracle grow solution in my water i have 6 plants already and onli one of them is yellowing but onli on one leaf. i dont have the necessary lamps yet but i made my own mulch mixed with dirt from my rose bush and it's growing pretty nice. but hey what the hell do i know lol. im using a regular house lamp but i have it like damn near directly above it cause i know that plants grow towards the light. i guess im going to be in my second week and it's already showin improvments. before i used the miracle grow they were very weak and now they are growin pretty strong but when should i switch them into bigger pots? will they last until this weekend when i go get my lamps and actual dirt?

Being utterly inexperienced, I used Miracle Gro Moisture Control for my first small closet grow with no supplemental nutrients. Since I used distilled water throughout, if it wasn't already in the soil, my babies didn't get it. I was growing some purple dank bagseeds I had been saving, and got two females.

MG does great through vegetative. I repotted into larger pots and fresh soil for flowering. Things went smoothly until late into flowering; strong and healthy with no signs of stress. Maybe three weeks before harvest ALL the leaves started to burn out and die, with all leaves falling off within a week, but not immediately affecting the buds. This yellowing started to creep into the buds by harvest.

I properly cured the shit and it looked beautiful aside from a few yellow tips on the buds, but the smoke tasted weird and metallic. I've smoked hundreds of different bags and never had my weed give me the same disagreeable taste. I only got about 3 ounces off of 2 plants, so yield was low, too.

This time around I decided to quit dicking around and get the fox farm 3 pack of nutes and some bomb fox farm soil. I got some alaskan ice and sweet tooth on the way. CFLs to veg and HPS to flower. Should smack me in the face with a shovel.

Bottom line, MG might be fine for vegetative, don't risk it for flowering. It was a super easy, low maintenence grow, but I was lucky to get anything at all and we ended up vaporizing most of it since it tasted like chemical waste.

I've used MG a few times and had some pretty good results. As long as you remember the things that are in there and veg with low nuts and flush hard before flower, and re pot with something better and keep on top of ph ,and just good ,general gardening techs it's cool.

I've used MG a few times and had some pretty good results. As long as you remember the things that are in there and veg with low nuts and flush hard before flower, and re pot with something better and keep on top of ph ,and just good ,general gardening techs it's cool.

bargiejargie said:

I properly cured the shit and it looked beautiful aside from a few yellow tips on the buds, but the smoke tasted weird and metallic. I've smoked hundreds of different bags and never had my weed give me the same disagreeable taste. I only got about 3 ounces off of 2 plants, so yield was low, too.

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and thats why u dont grow with mg

teh smoke is NEVER as gud as it shuld be

I used MG outdoor this year and had a 100% success rate. Plants and Buds where thick and healthy. It might be not so good for young plants/seedlings due to the fact it is high in nitrogen which is a little to much for the babies. Just be sure to flush 2 weeks before harvest.

-Hank

I used the miracle gro organic potting mix and ive had some very good success so far(4 weeks into flowering). I had a magnesium def. at 1 point but that was easily solved. Ive been adding some Botanicare Hydroplex Soil Formula during the flowering stage and ive had no problems with nute burn or anything so the slow release hasnt been a factor either. And since its organic i dont have to worry about the chemicals involved in the usual miracle gro products. I did some research and im my opinion it was the best and cheapest soil that was easily accessable. Meaning not having to buy it online, both home depot and lowes sell a bag thats enough for 1 plant through out its life for under $10.

u can hav 100% success growin in ur backyard with nuthin but a garden hose to water with if what u meen by success is u got sumthin 2 harvest

i dunno bout u but i want more than just 2 not have teh plants die

i want 2 gro sum primo stuff and u cant do that with mg just aint gonna happen


sure i seen some decent bud grown on mg but it will smoke like crap compared to even the worst shit i grow on Advanced Nutrients and not even a dumb stoner lik me can screw that up 2 bad anyway

Fox Farm ftw =)

against most people too, i harvested 1 oz per plant using cfls using MG and am in the second now with the same. Its cheap, located close and so far has not let me down. great post before though + rep

so far right now im growing 3 NL skunks in mg and using cfls, so far so good until i came back from my little vacation and there were yellowing on a shit load of fan leaves and started to get brown spots, ph says 6.0 when i do the water and dirt tests. adding no nutes has been the best thing for the plants but come flowering time i will be transplanting into bigger pots aswell as switching up the soil and possibly getting some of the fox farm for my next grow. heard it wordks the best.

Miracle Grow is 24-8-16 and contains Boron Copper Iron manganese and zinc. The Nitrogen in Miracle Grow comes form Urea, which is also in urine. Miracle Grow is fine for vegging . Its been working fine for me since the 1970's and i cant really say that those fancy nutes really make any difference. Ive tried many many times.
As for flowering, Miracle Grow makes a 15-30-15 with the exact same trace elements as the prevoius. This also works just fine. I recommend only using batches of 1/2 the recommended dosage, and then supplementing with molasses during flowering and using only water every 3rd feeding.

well right now all my babes are dying and im pretty sure its because of this miracle grow crap. first they got burned, my fault i know that, but now theyre going yellow, brown spots, and ive done my research and adjusted ph levels in both soil and water, giving them 20-20-20 nutes once a month (just because of the mirale grow) but theyre still dying...well next time im switching to aeroponics and growing big with hydro

man, i already put my seedling in mg, kinda wish i didnt. is there a specefic brang of soil anyone would recomend? preferably something u can get at home depot?

imabirdietoo said:

man, i already put my seedling in mg, kinda wish i didnt. is there a specefic brang of soil anyone would recomend? preferably something u can get at home depot?

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i grow in aero but i no that advanced nutrients recommends sunshine #4 mix so thats whut id use if i wuz gonna do that

it dont got no nutes tho so u gotta feed em urself

yeah definitely get soil thats just pure soil, i think its called soiless mix, it has no nutrients in it, you just gotta make sure you add your own nutes in every other watering or so, growfaq will have basic schedule to follow, basically just keep an eye on your plants, if they get burned tips your using too much nutes so back it off next watering and if you get yellow leaves add a bit more nutes
growfaq def helps

I got mircal grow (and had a slight mg problom, you just add a tbl spoon of epson salt in each gallon of water till you fix the problom and now they're growing prefectly fine big leaves thick stalk all females and handle stress well

miracle grow with nutes grow.


from now on i will be using miracle grow organics mixed with perlite. got to bake the soil, get rid of the bugs

i dont know, i mean i have mg fert and its 24-8-16 which i've used on mature plants and they were doing well. o.o

skunkushybrid said:

If you're going to use it try not to use any fert's till flower. At worst your plants will indicate when they need some before this. Check Rollitup's thread on plant problems and remedies. It's simple to understand.

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ive heard the same things but actually they out grew my other plants with no nute burn and i added 1/4 streighnth they looked good man for real i would just add lots of perlite and if your plants looked burnt just flush them