Soil

inhaleindica

Well-Known Member

• Oct 19, 2009

• #1

High everyone,

Hope all is well with everyone out there. I have a few questions regarding soil.

Here I am using Miracle Gro potting soil. I just realized last night that the time release fertilizer in there aren't any good for MJ.

Can I Flush the soil out and use fox farm fertilizers? Or should I transplant them into Fox Farms Ocean forest soil? I am on a tight budget till pay day next weekend grrr. I know I am getting a little N burn and some pre signs of K burns and I want to fix it soon. Any helpful links or forums for feeding my mj would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Everyone and smoke up and sit back.

 

goldilocks007

Member

• Oct 19, 2009

• #2

i would change soil asap i use peat free soil and mix with perlite and vermiculite and add nutes as needed

 

inhaleindica

Well-Known Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #3

Yea thanks, I plan on getting Fox farm ocean forest next time but I am gonna see how it goes with the bat guano for a week. I am gonna see how the plant does in the next week. I notice I have 3 or 4 calyxes on one of my plants and it has been on 18/6 light cycle so what does that mean? Should I switch em to 12/12 now regardless? I don't know. I wasn't expecting the calyx to come out now.

 

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growone

Well-Known Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #4

whatever you do, don't flush MG potting soil
recipe for disaster, likely you will burn your seedling to a crisp
extra water = extra fertilizer = nute burn
many do grow with MG potting soil, but it has its own tricks, over watering is the worse thing you can do with it

 

darksys

Well-Known Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #5

had the same problem when i first started growing MG burns your babys regardless

 

JN811

Well-Known Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #6

i'm using miracle grow organic which has barely any nutes. You can get it pretty much anywhere. ,my seedlings are doing fine with it.

 

smokermore

Well-Known Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #7

all i kno is MG usually has a ph of 5 - 5.5 so u def wann bring up the ph

 

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growone

Well-Known Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #8

JN811 said:

i'm using miracle grow organic which has barely any nutes. You can get it pretty much anywhere. ,my seedlings are doing fine with it.

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i use MG organic garden soil myself, it does work well, found that it needs a shot of dolomite to sweeten its ph

mg potting is a very different beast, it can be used, but funny enough it's more of an experts soil
not many experts use it though

 

Tokugawa

Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #9

I started my plants with mircle gro moisture control and so far it has been fine. I am still only in the first couple of weeks though. When did your problems start?

I am thinking of switching to Fox Farms when I transplant as well.

 

four20mike

Active Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #10

I too am using MG moisture control, no problems thus far.

 

inhaleindica

Well-Known Member

• Oct 22, 2009

• #11

alright I wont flush it. I will bear with it and keep an eye out on the plants till I get a different soil.