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 Nanook
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Registered: 04/20/08
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Loc: The Frozen Tundra 
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 Re: Favorite Organic Soil Mix  [Re: smurf_master]
#565841 - 06/20/11 12:20 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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To clear something up:
You DO NOT want a soilles mix because that would not contain any nutrients and therefore you would have to add nutrients for plants to grow.
When you add things like bat guano, bone meal, worm castings etc, you are making a SOIL.
Now about your question, I don't really have any experience using organic, home-made soil mixes, but the experience I have with cannabis tells me that each strain will respond differently, either in a dramatic way or more likely a subtle way, to each different mix. So the only way to find out what will work for you is to try starting with one of the more basic recipes and experimenting from there. Really the best way to learn about this shit is to spend lots of time trying different things.
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the spirit of Nanook
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Nanook
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Posts: 244
Loc: The Frozen Tundra
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Re: Favorite Organic Soil Mix [Re: Laysthepipe]
#567300 - 06/25/11 02:46 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Laysthepipe said:
Soilless mixture with shit added is still a soilless mixture IMO.
Coco isn't soil, it isn't dirt
Neither is verm, perlite, or shit.
You do STILL have to add these nutrients.
You're right, coco isn't soil, it's a mostly inert substrate ie. a soiless product. Neither is vermiculite or perlite soil, those are soil amendments, things to improve the structure and drainage of a mix yet contain no nutrients.
But I disagree with your first point. Shit, or compost or worm castings or guano, is not soil itself, but when added to a soilless mix they provide nutrients and a microbial population that breaks down the organic matter in the poo so the plant can eat it. Which means that the soil mix is providing nutrients to the plant that don't have to be added to the water you give the plant. This is what makes it soil, even if it has things in it that are, in and of themselves, soilless IMO.
Merriam Webster says:
Definition of SOILLESS
: having, containing, or utilizing no soil <soilless agriculture> <soilless media for starting seeds>
Definition of SOIL
2: something that spoils or pollutes: as a : refuse b : sewage c : dung, excrement
5: a medium in which something takes hold and develops
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the spirit of Nanook
1400W 1st log
3000W 2nd log (current)
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