Last year my mix was primarily peat and it had issues with water, the top became hard and hydrophobic cause water to bead up and only flow down the sides. It is for sure a great soil component, just better in smaller amounts I feel. I should clarify, I did use peat in my mix this year, my edit of the original post didn’t save.
I know what you mean. That usually happens when the soil dries out too much. Using a wetting agent like aloe, silica, or yucca extract will help to get the soil to absorb water more evenly. Also try not to let the soil get so dry, either water more frequently or use a bigger container size
The thing is, it’s like a 30 gallon pot and the bottom was still moist, it just gets so hot here I was unable to keep the top layer wet. My soil mix this year is a lot better in just about every way, product of my limited experience lol.
The soil mix I’m rocking now hasn’t presented me any problems so far, but I for sure appreciate the advice. What do you recommend for fertilizer though? Should I wait until I see a def. to fert? Or should I do it preemptively?
Yeah I’ve heard of people saying it made for a healthier plant, most of the time they induce it with Cochinine which is supposed to be toxic in the plants yield. This can be avoided by using the F1 as purely breeding stock, the offspring would be polyploid without the cochinine some crazy looking buds on them though
it was really odd seeing them stem like that though. Thanks for the input! I had never considered that.
Came it today and saw the photo blown over, that’s ok though it’s just nature’s form of lst. 