- My four INDOOR White Widows are almost three-weeks old and basically i'm following the instructions from some person on another site and I want to ask you guys if you think this would be good/ideal for the plants final growing site?
In other words should I should I buy the listed ingredients and follow these instructions?
First Post:
"Ok, to start, WW is not a beginner's plant. So be very cautious of everthing you do. PH 6.4 - 6.8, Fert (I'd go organic for best flavor) Fish emulsion for foliar feeding and bloodmeal for N when soil watering. Bloom- try a 5-50-3 if you can find a good one. Don't forget to leach the soil of salts, good part is that when you leach the worm castings will fert for you, the N at least(see Below).
2nd, don't go with just soil. Mix 50/50 soil/Worm castings (Organic source of N) then dither that off with vermiculite and perlite (To cause air pockets in soil and prevent packing) then add 1" gravel to the bottom of your pots for drainage.
3rd, what lights do you have? floros are only good for a short period with this strain, you want a cheap way for lighting? then get a MH lamp with the ability to add a HPS conversion bulb for flowering.
last, this can be harveted in 50 days of flowering but to get the best (And intended) results, you must flower 70 to 75 days. the last 72 hours being in COMPLETE dark."
Second Post:
"Ok heres the trick. Check your soil PH, let's say its 7.4 for arguments sake. Fill a gallon milk jug with water and your "Mix" of essentials then check the waters PH. Let's say the waters PH is 7.4.
Now you have soil and water both at 7.4, you don't want that. You want 6.4 to 6.8. Well we all know fertilizing lowers PH, so you must take into account everytime you fert you will lower PH.
To lower PH you use common house hold vinigar in your water. I start with adding a 1/4 Tsp. shake and let it sit for an hour. Get an aquarium water test kit. Test the water PH.
In this example I would adjust the water till its 6.9-7.0, as the fert will slowly lower it to a good level.
Now if it were reversed and the PH numbers were 5.8, you would you Hydrated Lime in the water mix, I start again by adding a 1/4 Tsp. at a time. I would adjust it to about 7.4 because of the large jump to get to quickly.
Now this is just my experience dealing with a soil mix like that, watch the Fish Emulsion. Organic fert hardly ever leaves over-fert burn so you can over do it and not know till it's too late."
Credit goes to DigitalT.
Thanks for any information!
Is This Formula Good for Organic Growing?
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ghettorigger
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Honestly not much of that is good advice really. Ph dosemt matter too much with organics, I never bother with mine. Avoid amendments with ridiculously high npk like the one that was listed.
I if you want to go the easy route just get a good quality organic potting soil. Fox farm ocean forest is the most common, cut it with some perlite, I do about between 25 to 35%, depending on how fast it comes out of the bag precision isn't essential. If you want to amend it and spend some extra money then I would add some worm castings if nothing else. But if your going to amend I would recommend looking at the other hundreds of soil mix threads on here. Just browse the stickies on the various sub forums and you will find all your answers.
Edit:
Fluorescent lights work fine, you just have to have enough wattage to get good plant growth. A grow can be as cheap and simple or as complicated and expensive as you like. Light, air,water,and nutrients are the basic needs of the plant. People have gotten smokable bud off led panels that cost ten dollars and cannot even light up a room.
I if you want to go the easy route just get a good quality organic potting soil. Fox farm ocean forest is the most common, cut it with some perlite, I do about between 25 to 35%, depending on how fast it comes out of the bag precision isn't essential. If you want to amend it and spend some extra money then I would add some worm castings if nothing else. But if your going to amend I would recommend looking at the other hundreds of soil mix threads on here. Just browse the stickies on the various sub forums and you will find all your answers.
Edit:
Fluorescent lights work fine, you just have to have enough wattage to get good plant growth. A grow can be as cheap and simple or as complicated and expensive as you like. Light, air,water,and nutrients are the basic needs of the plant. People have gotten smokable bud off led panels that cost ten dollars and cannot even light up a room.
