Mountain Goat
Active Member
Hi
I have just completed my second indoor grow. I grew Exodus Cheese on both, the first using pure buffered coco with a 40% perlite mix and the second grow I used a "coco amended mix". This being coco mixed with perlite, vermiculite, rock dust, worm castings, guano, bone meal micros and aminos etc.
My grow footprint is 18' x 9' for 60 plants scrogged....... I divided area into 3....(9' x 3') and use 1.7 gallon pots on rolling self draining tables......drain to waste with 12 x 315w CMH lights.
First grow I hand watered and the second grow I installed drip for fertigation with 4 x emitters per pot.
My first and most important question is essentially when people talk about a "super soil" does this mean"real dirt and compost mixes" or is a "coco amended soil" like I used in my second grow included in the super soil category?
I test my nutrient "feed in" for EC/PPM and PH......and test EC/PPM on "run off"......working on the eat and spit theory.......see if the plants are eating or choking on nutrients. With pure coco this is a good tool, but with an "amended" mix EC/PPM out on run off is not necessarily a true reflection to use on working out what the plants need on the next watering?
How does one work out what nutrient to feed the girls when one is using .....lets call it an "amended" coco super soil?......does one watch the plants as in growth, leaf color etc and feed as per what they are telling me. I assume I will not need nutrients for the first 4-6 weeks apart from adding some additives such as enzymes, amino and kelp (kelpak liquid) etc?
Second question is on pure coco, I use a 5.7 -5.9 PH in veg and a 6.0 - 6.2 PH in flower........"soil" recommendations indicate a far higher PH......again is a "coco amended super soil" a soil .........meaning it requires the higher PH on feeding?
Third question is on my first grow using pure coco I used Biobizz "organic" nutrients.......the second grow I tried a "salt based" 3 part nutrient. Can a drip with emitter watering system function with Biobizz without clogging up or must I use a bit of Hydrogen Peroxide in water to keep clear?
Fourth question is if I am using a "coco amended soil mix"......should I stick to "organic" nutrients as the salt based nutrients nullify the "organic" components and population in this "soil".
For my next grow I need to make a decision on what "soil" to use.........Someone has developed a "super soil" which has coco, spaghetti peat, 5% perlite, rock dust, worm castings, guano, micros, aminos etc.......(looks very nice) saying that this will take the plats through to finnish, with some "additives" and maybe a little bloom nutrition and possibly a little bloom booster through flower.....again not telling me what EC levels to feed?
I will appreciate any guidance going forward from the 420 gurus.
I have just completed my second indoor grow. I grew Exodus Cheese on both, the first using pure buffered coco with a 40% perlite mix and the second grow I used a "coco amended mix". This being coco mixed with perlite, vermiculite, rock dust, worm castings, guano, bone meal micros and aminos etc.
My grow footprint is 18' x 9' for 60 plants scrogged....... I divided area into 3....(9' x 3') and use 1.7 gallon pots on rolling self draining tables......drain to waste with 12 x 315w CMH lights.
First grow I hand watered and the second grow I installed drip for fertigation with 4 x emitters per pot.
My first and most important question is essentially when people talk about a "super soil" does this mean"real dirt and compost mixes" or is a "coco amended soil" like I used in my second grow included in the super soil category?
I test my nutrient "feed in" for EC/PPM and PH......and test EC/PPM on "run off"......working on the eat and spit theory.......see if the plants are eating or choking on nutrients. With pure coco this is a good tool, but with an "amended" mix EC/PPM out on run off is not necessarily a true reflection to use on working out what the plants need on the next watering?
How does one work out what nutrient to feed the girls when one is using .....lets call it an "amended" coco super soil?......does one watch the plants as in growth, leaf color etc and feed as per what they are telling me. I assume I will not need nutrients for the first 4-6 weeks apart from adding some additives such as enzymes, amino and kelp (kelpak liquid) etc?
Second question is on pure coco, I use a 5.7 -5.9 PH in veg and a 6.0 - 6.2 PH in flower........"soil" recommendations indicate a far higher PH......again is a "coco amended super soil" a soil .........meaning it requires the higher PH on feeding?
Third question is on my first grow using pure coco I used Biobizz "organic" nutrients.......the second grow I tried a "salt based" 3 part nutrient. Can a drip with emitter watering system function with Biobizz without clogging up or must I use a bit of Hydrogen Peroxide in water to keep clear?
Fourth question is if I am using a "coco amended soil mix"......should I stick to "organic" nutrients as the salt based nutrients nullify the "organic" components and population in this "soil".
For my next grow I need to make a decision on what "soil" to use.........Someone has developed a "super soil" which has coco, spaghetti peat, 5% perlite, rock dust, worm castings, guano, micros, aminos etc.......(looks very nice) saying that this will take the plats through to finnish, with some "additives" and maybe a little bloom nutrition and possibly a little bloom booster through flower.....again not telling me what EC levels to feed?
I will appreciate any guidance going forward from the 420 gurus.