oh.....for those wanting to try a supersoil one bag at a time, my recipe is posted on the first page.
Other options that are even easier:
1.)use fox farms peace of mind
2.)use vermiblend organic soil amendment.
You'll still need to feed with either of those applications, more feeding with the second one....but you'll also get the beneficials and the great organic flavor.
As long as you use some good tea's....you could easily feed the plants with good old salt based ferts as supplements. I have vigoro rose food standing by, just in case.
Another thing is to put oc+ in a 5 gallon bucket of water and measure the ppm's. Water with it when the ppm's are like 400 or so.....again, making sure to keep the soil alive with compost and/or worm tea.
You really can't go wrong as long as you do the tea's right.....no need to ph either.
I had the director and the main grower of a very large collective ring me up the other day. He got some of the lemon paki i just finished growing:
no bull...no exaggeration....they said it was the best product they've ever seen and they commissioned me to do a complete run of it, which i'll do the next time i have a tray open. I'm in the process of getting a couple mother plants established, etc.
Anyways, they came out and toured the garden. It's a nice grow room.....etc.
These 2 questions were interesting:
1.)how do you flush? What flushing agent do you use?
I told them i don't flush....i just water heavily with tea's. As the soil depletes, the plants "flush" themselves. They were very intrigued...because they had always believed that good flavor comes from flushing. I explained that it was more like bad flavor comes from over feeding and flushing is merely trying to mitigate that.
2.)what target ph do you shoot for?
I explained that i don't check ph and had no idea what the ph was.....
You could see their heads spinning....they'd look at the plants, look at the product.....and next thing you know i'm commissioned to grow for them.
What's my point in saying this other than blatant self promotion and bragging?
Well, it's this:
Anyone can do this. Literally just follow the recipe. Anyone here can grow premium quality weed if they'd just follow the damn recipe. Avoid pot-forum mythology. Avoid slick marketing of over priced nutrient packages. Everything you need can be found in a decent garden shop, often at a price well below hydroponics stores.
Ace hardware has the full fox farms line....bone meal, blood meal, etc. Home depot has gypsum. Rite-aid has epsom salt...
A person could easily grow 30 plants the organic way for under 100 bucks.....yes, it's more work than hempy/oc+. It's probably not the best choice for a first grow...but as soon as you learn a bit, give it a shot! The outcome is spectacular.
You do have to adjust the soil for different strains....and nothing short of experience will tell you how to do that, but certainly anyone here is capable of copying.
It's not that hard folks....
1.)environment
2.)medium
3.)genetics
4.)harvest/dry/cure. (mostly environment here too)
50 Gallon? Next you'll be needing a forklift to go along with your cement mixer!
No, seriously, I'm really pushing the sulfur....that's where the terpenes come from.
I always look forward to your updates Doc and your grows are some of my favorites....Great job, love the garden....
