How often do you water your indoor soil plants?
How often do you feed?
I always let the plant completely dry out before I water it. You can use a meter but I just lift the plants to feel how much they weigh. If they are heavy I don't water them, if they are light I water until I see water coming out the bottom of the pot. Once you get it down it surprising how much you can sense by feel.
The reason it's so important to let your plants dry out has nothing to do with oxygen or drowning, etc... It's to keep pests in check. Many pests spend part of their lives in larva form. When you force the soil to dry out it kills the larva. Think of it as preventative medicine.
You don't have to feed your plants nutrients if you use big enough containers and Subcool's Super Soil recipe. I also add kelp and extra perlite to the mix. I tend to run more perlite than the average grower. My aeroponics background has taught me a lot about the importance of oxygen to the roots.
Mix everything in small batches. I use a kiddie pool to mix everything in. First I put in the perlite. Then I add the soil. After that comes all the small stuff. Since the perlite is on the bottom it's a good indicator of how well the soil is mixed up. It's a messy, dirty, dusty, fucked up job that takes hours. Just remember though that this is the only time you should have to deal with fertilizer again for the entire grow.
Remember that the size of the container also plays a huge part in the nutrient game. The bigger the pot the more nutrients are available, for longer periods of time. It's easy to understand that a 10gal container holds twice as much as a 5gal container.
When you buy your soil containers think of it like buying a new dick. If you could buy a new dick, would you buy a big dick or a small dick?
Also think security when you get rid of your old soil. You can only put so much old soil in your flowerbeds before you end up with a mountain in your front yard! How many people throw away perfectly good soil? That's what it looks like when you trash your old soil. Neighbors know what's up. Be safe...
Here is the mix and how much you can expect to invest every batch. (kelp is not on this list)
This is enough to fill a little less than 20 - 10gal containers. That's a lot of soil! I mix everything in 4 small batches. I just divide everything by 4 to get the correct amount. If you have the space you could mix everything at once but that would take a shit load of space!
Oh yea, you can expect to harvest around 4lbs. running 4 1000W lights with 20 - 10gal containers (all approx.) Big producing strains can double that while poor producers will give you half that. Genetics are huge! (duh)
Ingredients | Brand/ | Weight/size | price | Total price per batch |
8- Large bags of High quality Organic potting soil with a coco and Mycorrhizae | Happy Frog soil | 2 cubic feet | 16.95 (x | 135.60 |
1- 25-50 pounds of Organic Worm castings | 4-Corners Earthworm Castings | 1lb | 9.95 | 9.95 |
5 lb. Steamed Bone meal | Happy Frog Steamed Bone Meal | 4lb | 7.69 | 7.69 |
5 lb. Bloom bat Guano | Happy Frog Bat Quano | 4lb | 32.85 | 32.85 |
5 lb. Blood meal | Dr. Earth Blood Meal | 2lb | 6.22 | 12.44 |
3 lb. Rock Phosphate | Dr. Earth Soft Rock Phosphate | 3lb | 5.97 | 5.97 |
¾ cup Epson salts | Dr. Teal’s Epsom Salt | 3lb | 4.89 | 0.10 |
½ to 1 Cup cup Sweet Lime ( Dolimite) | Growmore Dolomite Lime | 4lb | 4.71 | 0.50 |
½ Cup Azomite Trace Elements | Azomite Micronized | 2lb | 8.79 | 0.50 |
2- TBS Powdered Humic Acid | TeraVita Humic Acids SP-85 | 1lb | 8.79 | 0.25 |
2 cubic feet of Perlite | perlite | 6 cubic feet | 36.95 | 12.32 |
| | | Total startup price | Total price per batch |
| | | 261.72 | 218.17 |