IgnatiusWakefield
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I see often that people advise against planting seedlings into the hot soils that most organic growers construct. What should my seedlings' soil consist of?
Organic Seedling Soil
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green_machine_two9er
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Here a couple ideas I've tried.
Roots or ffof. Or any organic bagged soil cut up to 50% with per light.
1 part coir.
1 part ffof
1part perlite.
Or I like light warrior if I'm a rush.
Roots or ffof. Or any organic bagged soil cut up to 50% with per light.
1 part coir.
1 part ffof
1part perlite.
Or I like light warrior if I'm a rush.
IgnatiusWakefield
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Much appreciated. One less thing to worry about.
green_machine_two9er
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yes, good luck! new to growing??
greasemonkeymann
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I've had good luck with simple pro mix.
In a party cup.
Now I use only used soil that I've ran for two harvests or more, not re-amended. that's actually a better way if you have some.
Either works fine though.
IgnatiusWakefield
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Yeah this would be my first season. I've tried before, but always hit some type of wall and never followed through with the plan. This year the plan is an organic guerilla grow
green_machine_two9er
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Never grown outdoors myself. Good luck. You building a super soil?
IgnatiusWakefield
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Yeah I'm trying. I've done some research and figured out prices for every thing. Just ran into another problem though.
green_machine_two9er
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There are no problems. Only solutions!!
That being said wats ur problem??
IgnatiusWakefield
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Well I intend to grow 10 plants. Well that means 10 holes to put soil in. 10 bales of promix is very costly. Now my problem is how to solve this. My initial solutions were to get 2 to 3 bales and evenly distribute them amongst the holes, and add anything that I'm missing from the pro mix. Alternative solution is to build the promix in addition to the rest of the super soil. Now the question becomes which is more cost effective and which would be the better idea?
green_machine_two9er
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I've never use promix. But isn't it just perlite and peat with added mycrhor?
IgnatiusWakefield
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Yeah I'm pretty sure. In theory it seems cheaper to just buy that, rather than those things separately
green_machine_two9er
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Yeah just it some checking out promix at my grow store. And damn that shit is expensive. You weren't kidding. I picked up some sunshine mix #4 ten$ cheaper but one less cf per bale. I've never used peat as a base before. My mixes have consisted of 25% each. Ffof. Perlite. Coco coir. Ewc. Or skip the ff and just go with any local organic pottings soil. Of course amendments are needed on top of the base. Which Is where the real investment is.
green_machine_two9er
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But hey growing outdoors you don't have the lovely electric bill to worry about. I'm jealous.
green_machine_two9er
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Awesome. I was just thinking if I should recycle some soil and not re-ammend for a clone and veg mix. So two runs before it can be used for clones you think?
greasemonkeymann
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for mine it was two runs, but I don't think a "one run" would hurt them either, I just used a soil that had already done two harvests more for the super active soilweb/microbial activity it already had.
Shit, I just saw that you were asking about clones, if they are established and nice and "rooty" I have done clones right in a normal soil, it's seedlings that i'm careful with, but the clones I plant are usually pretty established, if not I would plant them in a coco hair and peat/perlite mix for about ten days or so.
but clones I haven't had burn issues, but my soil is a good slow release, that's high in compost so it's not like a blood meal/bat guano mix like some like
USbeginnerguy
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Roots orgranic by Aurora soil mixed 50-50 with coconut works outstanding for me. my girls at two weeks are the size of if not bigger then one month olds i see.