Which soils to use?

BabyAndaconda420

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Humidity- 55-65% id say is good for veg
Temp- i try and stay around 70-80
Light- depends on what kind of light set up you use to grow.But id say try and keep them as close to the plant as you can without burning them then the bigger they get you raise the light some. If your light is to weak it will cause them to stretch so it really depends on what kind of light you use and hiw powerful it is.I use A led how about you?
 

DancesWithWeeds

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I use A led
What kind of LED? Mine is a King 3x 900w Dimable. I don't think I used it right. The plants looked really nice but small. I took one out of the SCROG and looked at it in daylight. It looked like it just wanted to be pulled and put into the compost. The leafs were dark green. The plant was very squaty. and there were popcorn buds all over it.

This was 2 mo. into grow in suppersoil. Lights 18/6.
 

BabyAndaconda420

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What kind of LED? Mine is a King 3x 900w Dimable. I don't think I used it right. The plants looked really nice but small. I took one out of the SCROG and looked at it in daylight. It looked like it just wanted to be pulled and put into the compost. The leafs were dark green. The plant was very squaty. and there were popcorn buds all over it.

This was 2 mo. into grow in suppersoil. Lights 18/6.
How many plants are you tyring to grow?
 

DancesWithWeeds

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How many plants
Well, I had 7 at first in 7 gallon smart pots. I took one White Widow out because it was too crowed and it was the weakest one. I left it on the patio and it did OK considering it's start in life. The others were one White Widow, two Gold Leafs and three that were ether second generation Gold Leaf or Gold Leaf/White Widow. One of my plants went hermy last year and I used those seeds for three plants. The plants all went hermy again this year. Probably because of all the stress in there lives. I let them grow anyhow because that would be all I had until next year. I only got about seven or eight ounces out of all of them. The White Widow and the ones I call "The Three" are killers. The Gold Leaf is only good.

I live in the country in Oklahoma and we just went legal for medical. This is my third year trying to grow, all inside. From now on it's outdoors where plants were meant to grow. EXCEPT, now I am experimenting with mainlining. I am growing one of whatever The Three are. It's almost ready for the second topping and I have made four clones. All this is happening in Weed's, my wife, little Arrow-Grow herb garden that she got for Christmas. Seed was started in Jiffy Seed Started and transplanted to a 3 3/4 quart planter. Everything is going great.

The rub is that there are now five plants. I have to start up the grow room again. That means the King LED.

Do you know anything about these lights? (King 3x 900w Demable)
 
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Midiver

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How is mushroom manuer? I have that mixed in will some vermiculite and potting soil and it seems to be doing okay. I don't have any way of gauging ph, though.
Mushrooms soil is dead devoid of nutrients can not even grow a mushroom, so they sell it. It's made from composted hay.Get a ph test kit or meter from Amazon. The manure was added so the plants would not starve to death.
 

Budley Doright

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Mushrooms soil is dead devoid of nutrients can not even grow a mushroom, so they sell it. It's made from composted hay.Get a ph test kit or meter from Amazon. The manure was added so the plants would not starve to death.
I’m hoping he/she has that figured out by now lol.
 

Durkee13

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Hi young BUCK,

It is usually safe to get the most expensive organic soil you can find.. Ideally you want to start with a soil that has a PH of 6.5 - 7.0.

This is the main problem with miracle grow because it starts with a PH of 5.0.

There is a soil called "Black Gold" it is GOD SEND.. I don not belive it is sold at HD.

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Is that black gold natural and organic soil?
 
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