Info on my grow medium?

NewHeights

Active Member
A little info on the grow medium i used...

Subcools mix with Roots Original and it let it cook for about 2 months. I placed it in the bottom half of my smart pots. Then, I added the top half with Roots Greenlite (and mixed it where they meet a bit) and a little blackgold organic potting soil on top....

I feed only with OG Tea's VSS and RWstar in PH'd water for veg and for flower i have used AN's Big Bud, Bud Candy, and Overdrive in half doses but thinking of just maybe using compost teas and some Hi Brix molasses this go around. I also have some water soluble potassium laying around to bring out the lemon flavor in my Alien OG clones. Idk if thats a good idea or not to feed with though.

Any thoughts?
 

NewHeights

Active Member
BTW, my indoor ladies are 4 1/2 weeks into veg and looking great...gettin real bushy with a nice even canopy of tops and side shoots so i KNOW they are happy. I'm solely focused on flowering right now since j will make the switch in another week or 2
 

MeJuana

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No don't add the nutrients at all unless your organic soil falls short, which it won't if you are using organic teas. I didn't even believe in organic tea until I seen Cornell universities studies using tea on their lawn. Teas are very very important especially in such a finite space for microbes. If your organics tank on you and your plants get that pale hungry, yellowing leaves like root rot except it isn't root rot then you can add nutrients in an emergency situation.

You can't grow better tasting grass than organic soil which never had nutrients added to it and I will try to explain this. Plants have evolved over the past 500 million years to release a chemical known as an exudate to bring specific types of life to it's roots depending on what it needs. These exudates will attract bacteria/fungi which contain all of the elements they need. When you put derived nutrients on the soil you ruin this organic process and another less refined process takes over. It is very difficult to regulate which nutrients are absorbed into the porins of the roots and which are left behind, setting up the possibility for salt buildup inside of the plant itself, and thus the need for flushing is born. To recap, when the process is organic this is much less likely as the plant has released an exact amount of exudate to counter it's need for a certain element.

Now I've just explained scientifically why organic tastes better. Don't tell the nutrient guys I said this because I don't like arguing I just like marijuana.
 

platt

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Yeah i can entrust that nice isolated after taste that organic nugs provide to the usage of meal form ammendments...but i still dont know how the fuck that happens^ and im not being sarcastic. Its just a predictable result for me so i decided dont go further into this subject :P winZ ^
 
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