Emeraldo
Well-Known Member
I'm always checking out the soil pH on the back of the packages in the garden store, just to see what is available. I'm an outdoor grower in soil in pots. I don't use the store-bought stuff uncritically, and if I can find a good one, it might make up 50% of the supersoil that ultimately goes in the bottom of the pot, after making many amendments.
Anyway, I found a new soil product the other day. New to me, cuz I hadn't seen it before. It's a wood-fiber product and the reason I bought it was because the label says it has a pH of 5.8, which makes it a good starting point, pH-wise, for my current grow which includes Arjan's Haze #1 (GHS recommends a soil pH of 5.7).
Labeled "berry soil," this is a 50/50 blend of wood fiber and composted bark. So I mixed up my soil using 15 L of "berry soil" per 30-L tub of soil -- so the wood-fiber product makes up roughly 50% of my final soil mix. To which I added 2 L peat moss, making my soil base mix a wood-fiber/peat blend. Then I added the usual stuff (5 L of used soil from my last grow, 5 L composted horse/cow manure, 2 L perlite, 1 L worm castings and 1 cup lime; and further amendments, in cups and teaspoon amounts, include bat guano, blood meal, cottonseed meal, horn meal, pelletized chicken manure, fish bone meal, rock dust, cali-mag, etc.). My question to you all is about the wood-fiber base mix.
Has anyone used wood-fiber soils? Did you have good results? Any issues? I just wondered about the use of wood fiber for cannabis. I did a little checking and saw that peat moss is said to increase porosity, airflow, water-flow and -retention of wood fiber substrates, see Substrates on trial: wood fiber in the spotlight The article concludes that up to 20% peat moss in a wood-fiber substrate actually integrates the soil beneficially.
I'd be interested to hear any experiences or any thoughts on wood-fiber as a soil component.
Anyway, I found a new soil product the other day. New to me, cuz I hadn't seen it before. It's a wood-fiber product and the reason I bought it was because the label says it has a pH of 5.8, which makes it a good starting point, pH-wise, for my current grow which includes Arjan's Haze #1 (GHS recommends a soil pH of 5.7).
Labeled "berry soil," this is a 50/50 blend of wood fiber and composted bark. So I mixed up my soil using 15 L of "berry soil" per 30-L tub of soil -- so the wood-fiber product makes up roughly 50% of my final soil mix. To which I added 2 L peat moss, making my soil base mix a wood-fiber/peat blend. Then I added the usual stuff (5 L of used soil from my last grow, 5 L composted horse/cow manure, 2 L perlite, 1 L worm castings and 1 cup lime; and further amendments, in cups and teaspoon amounts, include bat guano, blood meal, cottonseed meal, horn meal, pelletized chicken manure, fish bone meal, rock dust, cali-mag, etc.). My question to you all is about the wood-fiber base mix.
Has anyone used wood-fiber soils? Did you have good results? Any issues? I just wondered about the use of wood fiber for cannabis. I did a little checking and saw that peat moss is said to increase porosity, airflow, water-flow and -retention of wood fiber substrates, see Substrates on trial: wood fiber in the spotlight The article concludes that up to 20% peat moss in a wood-fiber substrate actually integrates the soil beneficially.
I'd be interested to hear any experiences or any thoughts on wood-fiber as a soil component.