Need a little help creating my soil mix! PLS HELP

CaliforniaTHC

Active Member

• Mar 18, 2013

• #1

Hey guys i just got 4 afghan kush ryder plants and am mixing some stuff into my soil, I have fox farm Happy frog organic potting soil, kelp powder, blood meal, bone meal, horse manure, and ancient forest humus.
I was wondering if i even have to use the horse manure if I use humus because I know the manure isnt much for fertilizing its more of the microbes supplement. These plants are auto flower thats why Im using blood meal.

My recipe(from a friend)
1 cup kelp powder
1 cup blood meal
1 cup bone meal
1 cup horse manure
4 gal organic potting soil

That is per plant for an autoflower
Thanks all!

 

Becorath

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• Mar 18, 2013

• #2

the manure should be well dried or composted. Otherwise it will burn your plants. Fresh manure is hot with nutrients.

 

CaliforniaTHC

Active Member

• Mar 19, 2013

• #3

Becorath said:

the manure should be well dried or composted. Otherwise it will burn your plants. Fresh manure is hot with nutrients.

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Yeah, but can I use the humus and manure? or would it be pointless because they do the same thing? I heard the horse shit has low humus or something, what other benefits are there?

 

Becorath

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• Mar 19, 2013

• #4

The forest humus is pretty much composted trees. So, Yea, you can use both with no problem.

 

bwest

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• Mar 20, 2013

• #5

You're going to like that Afghan Kush Ryder.

 

areyoukind

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• Mar 20, 2013

• #6

Roots organic 707 soil is low price and ph neutral, to me it's only $10 more then mixing up my own and have had great success.

 

zack66

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• Mar 20, 2013

• #7

I'd also add some perlite and lime. Worm castings are great too!

 

CaliforniaTHC

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• Mar 22, 2013

• #8

zack66 said:

I'd also add some perlite and lime. Worm castings are great too!

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I have decided to go with Fox Farms Happy frog organic potting soil, using super manure as well. If I am correct the lime balances the pH? I'm not sure but I think the happy frog may have that in it...

areyoukind said:

Roots organic 707 soil is low price and ph neutral, to me it's only $10 more then mixing up my own and have had great success.

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Yeah, I have heard good and bad about roots organic, my soil recipe is geared more toward the specific strain I am growing.

bwest said:

You're going to like that Afghan Kush Ryder.

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Have you grown it yourself? I have heard it was sensitive to the pH, last grow my tap was in the 7.0 pH region so I never had to really adjust it, would I be good just using my tap with this grow till harvest? I plan to put enough soil amendments/ferts to last till harvest so I am not going to add chemical nutes.

 

CaliforniaTHC

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• Mar 22, 2013

• #9

hey guys! This just in I got 2 boss hogg seeds and 1 g13 seed from my friend. I think I am just going to grow them in the same tent as the AKR's since I am running them with a 400w HPS with Super HPS hortilux eye blue bulb(thinking about adding a second 400W into my 2x4x5 tent? I have AC unit so heat really isnt going to be a problem) only problem is space so I might just multi-pot the 2 boss hoggs(regular seeds non fem) and I'll save the g13 for later. You think planting both the boss hogg into one pot is a good idea?? To keep it small Ill use a 3 gal pot as apposed to my 5 gals for the AKR, I really just dont want the boss hogg to hog the space and reduce harvest lawlz. Would a scrog be ideal for this type of grow?

 

CaliforniaTHC

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• Mar 22, 2013

• #10

I have read you should only have 1 plant per sq ft so I am pretty sure 4 pots with two seeds in one is fine because it has about 8 sq ft if I am doing my math right lol. Am i correct?

I plan to flip the lights to 12/12 once I harvest the akr so the boss hogg will be big and nasty