PE636
Well-Known Member
It's time for the next episode in my cannabis growing hobby. I've been growing in coco for a few years now with pretty good success. I'm starting to get a little sick of mixing up nutes daily. Coco/perlite isn't super cheap to buy, by my standards anyway. And my quality has been respectable in the coco but I just can't seem to get the intense flavour/smell I expect and have had before, even though my drying/curing seems to be pretty well executed usually.
So I decided to try out some organic soil/techniques and see if I like it better. I've grown a vegetable garden for quite a few years but it's pretty much plant, water, harvest, add compost every fall and done. But I am not going in the ground with the cannabis. As luck would have it its almost time to start an outdoor plant for this summer so I picked had some supplies delivered. I didn't have time to prepare my own soil but this sounded like a good option. Here's a list of what I have or on the way. Still not sure what strain I will try but I have a few choices kicking around.
3 cu ft bale of Stepwell Super Soil
EM1 microbe concentrate (lactobacillus)
6lbs Boogie Brew compost tea mix
1lb ea Stepwell Veg and Bloom top dressings.
15 gallon fabric pots
60l/min air pump
2x air stones + lines
Apera ph60? Meter and solutions
Now admittedly I have only a partial clue what I am doing so if anyone experienced is looking feel free to chime in. My first issue is hoping 15 gallon is big enough. Ideally I'd like to be able to run this in my tent as well and 2x15 is about the limit in there. Issue two is how big/well rooted does a plant need to be to put in this stuff?. I was thinking going from a 0.7 gallon to a 3 them to the 15. Should I use this in all the pots or start in something else? Still a bit of snow on the ground so I have a few days to figure this out
So I decided to try out some organic soil/techniques and see if I like it better. I've grown a vegetable garden for quite a few years but it's pretty much plant, water, harvest, add compost every fall and done. But I am not going in the ground with the cannabis. As luck would have it its almost time to start an outdoor plant for this summer so I picked had some supplies delivered. I didn't have time to prepare my own soil but this sounded like a good option. Here's a list of what I have or on the way. Still not sure what strain I will try but I have a few choices kicking around.
3 cu ft bale of Stepwell Super Soil
EM1 microbe concentrate (lactobacillus)
6lbs Boogie Brew compost tea mix
1lb ea Stepwell Veg and Bloom top dressings.
15 gallon fabric pots
60l/min air pump
2x air stones + lines
Apera ph60? Meter and solutions
Now admittedly I have only a partial clue what I am doing so if anyone experienced is looking feel free to chime in. My first issue is hoping 15 gallon is big enough. Ideally I'd like to be able to run this in my tent as well and 2x15 is about the limit in there. Issue two is how big/well rooted does a plant need to be to put in this stuff?. I was thinking going from a 0.7 gallon to a 3 them to the 15. Should I use this in all the pots or start in something else? Still a bit of snow on the ground so I have a few days to figure this out
