KootenayDIY
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Great thread! Every grower that can get their hands on this should try it at least once. I’m a changed grower and will never go back to salts and synthetics again. This stuff is garden gold.
Official Gaia Green Grow Method
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KootenayDIY
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I top feed once every 3-4 weeks. Fill the plants fridge and let it eat. Best way to activate and compliment the soil is with more beneficial bacteria and microbes. Brew compost tea’s!
I feed the plants tea two times per feed cycle. Up to the 5th week of flower or just after my last feeding.
I feed the plants tea two times per feed cycle. Up to the 5th week of flower or just after my last feeding.
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KootenayDIY
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My garden using Gaia and Kootenay bio compost on week 2 of flower
Happy growing!
Happy growing!
myke
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Great thread! Cost me a bit but I think I have all the stuff or maybe not.
I have the basic 1/3 peat/humis/per light 1 cup dolomite lime per and one cup kelp per 7.5g
Where I need a bit of help is with the rest. I have
Alpha
Insect frass
Rock dust
Gaia green 4-4-4. Plan is to cook for about 2 months.
I have the basic 1/3 peat/humis/per light 1 cup dolomite lime per and one cup kelp per 7.5g
Where I need a bit of help is with the rest. I have
Alpha
Insect frass
Rock dust
Gaia green 4-4-4. Plan is to cook for about 2 months.
swedsteven
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Gaia 444 and 284 is all you need my old promix is full off life !
JustBlazin
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great thread thanks for posting it up gio
I have used Gaia green pretty much exclusively for 1-2 years.
started with the living soil in a bag,but it was kind of expensive 30 litres for $30(originally it was $24 I think) and they stopped carrying it for awhile so I had to switch to fox farm bagged soil(happy frog & ocean forest i think they were called) for a bit but didnt like them as much, so i got a bail of promix and a 2kg jug of all purpose and power bloom.
ended up doing a side by side with the soil I mixed and the ocean forest,Gaia green dry amendments blew the ffof away after a month I just took out the ffof one cause it was getting crowded in the tent and it was so much smaller than the other clone.
so ya love the gaia green amendments, they kick ass
I have used Gaia green pretty much exclusively for 1-2 years.
started with the living soil in a bag,but it was kind of expensive 30 litres for $30(originally it was $24 I think) and they stopped carrying it for awhile so I had to switch to fox farm bagged soil(happy frog & ocean forest i think they were called) for a bit but didnt like them as much, so i got a bail of promix and a 2kg jug of all purpose and power bloom.
ended up doing a side by side with the soil I mixed and the ocean forest,Gaia green dry amendments blew the ffof away after a month I just took out the ffof one cause it was getting crowded in the tent and it was so much smaller than the other clone.
so ya love the gaia green amendments, they kick ass
stonerlibrarian
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Thanks That's was helpful.
What's your recipe for your mix?
My first grow was promix, worm castings, and gaia green. but my soil got super acidic and the plants got magnesium and calcium lock outs (I think i'm no expert). Although i think I overwatered them too and they were stresed.
So I did buy some living soil for this 2nd grow and i'm gonna see how that goes. AT $30 a bag it's not sustainable in the longrun (hopefully I can get a few grows from the living soil)
What's your recipe for your mix?
My first grow was promix, worm castings, and gaia green. but my soil got super acidic and the plants got magnesium and calcium lock outs (I think i'm no expert). Although i think I overwatered them too and they were stresed.
So I did buy some living soil for this 2nd grow and i'm gonna see how that goes. AT $30 a bag it's not sustainable in the longrun (hopefully I can get a few grows from the living soil)
JustBlazin
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this is from my last run
all grown 100% organic using only Gaia green all purpose and bloom dry amendments with added kelp(Gaia green),insect frass(Gaia green),neem meal,dolomite lime and crushed oyster shell and just plain water the whole way
now I have purchased a bunch more of Gaia green amendments to add to my all purpose and bloom.now I have blumats now and this soil with the blumats go together like peanut butter and jelly, the plants and soil absolutly love the constant moisture the blumats provide,to top dress your plants all you have to do is put a scoop of your amendments under the drip line and it slowly drips into your medium. If anyone is interested I could post the mix I use don't know exactly of the top of my head
MickFoster
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I've read through this thread a couple of times and it seems that the dry amendments mentioned are used in some type of soil or Promix HP peat moss......or a combination.
Does anyone use it successfully in a coco/perlite mix without any soil or peat?
Does anyone use it successfully in a coco/perlite mix without any soil or peat?
myke
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They are slow release so youd have to water it in ahead of time id think.Im just making a move away from coco but sounds like it would work.
JustBlazin
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im pretty sure i read in a blumat thread that someone used organic amendments with coco and it worked
stonerlibrarian
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Never done it, but have you seen Mr Canuks grow on youtube? He does and makes videos about it. I've watched many of his videos and he mixes it up and does some grows with Gaia Green living soil (cause he's sponsored by them) and other grows with coco/perlite & gaia green. Here a video where does does exactly what you are describing.
MickFoster
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Thanks for the reply.
I'm familiar with mr. canuck.......not a fan.
I asked the question because a lot of growers on different forums have tried it with coco and start threads asking for advice because they're having problems.......without solutions. I've yet to see a successful grow by using the dry amendments with coco.
Sup Im BirDy
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Canuks way doesn’t work. I’ve tried with down to earth amendments several times... nothing worked. Mother Earth coco + perlite.. 7 beans down the drain. The second i went back to happy frog & coco loco I was fine. Many other forums will tell you the same.
You guys should add down to earth to this list for the east coast people. That and dr earth
stonerlibrarian
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Interesting. I've never tried it
Budzbuddha
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Dr. Earth has great dry fertilizer and Happy Frog fruit and flower is another option. Stinks but very good fert.
myke
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I’m interested in this mix. Thanks
Sup Im BirDy
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Peace of mind is also a good one from them
JustBlazin
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well when i first started with gaia green i bought one jug of all purpose and one of the power bloom, i liked it so much that i started buying the 10 kg bag of all purpose and i just fill up the original jug i bought to make it easier to use, so i have been going by the direction on the jug wich says 120 ml per gallon . i wanted to put in some other stuff as well so i would put in 120 ml in two gallon then add 60 ml neem meal, 30 ml insect frass, 30 ml kelp meal, 60 ml dolomite lime and 90 ml crushed oyster shell. oh and i add about 1/2 - 1 cup of ewc to the 2 gallons as well, im not sure how much ewc to use in my mix any thoughts? so i have looked on the 10kg bag and it says 45 ml per gallon, so i guess they changed it at some point and apparently i have been making my soil super hot. but it works pretty well just have to cut it to 1/2 to 1/3 for clones and when i up pot from the beer cup i make a pile half promix half my mix and put a few hand fulls around the roots of said plant so it getts some not so hot soil to work into first before it gets to the super hot soil, now full disclosure i have had one seed plant die due to it being to hot(but i saw it coming and got a clone to save the plant so i could flower it the next round) and also had some burning on a couple plants this round but other than that for about a year or more they all seem to love it. in flower i top dress with power bloom at weeks 2,4 and the last time i also did 6 works pretty awsome.
i have recently bought some more jugs of gaia green amendments to play with got some bone meal,gypsum,greensand,gound oyster shell flour and fishbone meal. not sure how im going to add them into my soil mix yet, any ideas im open for some input.
also made some mixes for top dressing 1 for veg higher in N and 1 for flower thats higher in P
here's some pics I took to show the different mixing instructions from Gaia green jug and 10 kg bag also a shot of my neem meal
hope this helps
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Roshambizzle
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Lol Matt's way doesn't work. Have you ever actually watched his videos? You think hes just lying about what he grows with? Better looking buds 100% of the time then I have seen anyone post here.