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Joben
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Help! I'm severely overthinking my soil

#847491 - 03/02/21 06:38 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

First grow, from seeds, indoors, in soil, roughly 1 month in. It's getting time to mix up the soil for my 5 gallon fabric containers, and I'm sitting here with an excel spreadsheet looking up the contents of 20 different fertilizers trying to use linear algebra to calculate the right ratios, and I'm getting overwhelmed by too much information and having trouble making up my mind so I can move forward. I know this shouldn't be as complicated as I'm making it. What aspects of the soil do I actually need to worry about? What do I need to make sure to have enough of and what to not have too much of? I feel like every guide I read comes just sort of answering those questions, and I'm someone who likes to understand the whys instead of just following instructions.

My base is going to be store-bought compost, peat moss, and perlite. I've also got worm casting, blood meal, bone meal, lime, Epsom salt, some fertilizer mixes, and biochar. I don't know if it matters as far as nutrients, but I'm planning to clone the plants I'm growing now. I'm hoping someone knowledge can give me the insight I need to make a decision that I'm comfortable moving forward with.

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Rider420
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Re: Help! I'm severely overthinking my soil

[Re: Joben]
#847494 - 03/05/21 11:31 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

https://www.growweedeasy.com/what-soil-is-good-for-growing-cannabis

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Almost any organic soil potting mix – If you can’t order special soil online, ask for the best soil at your local gardening store. You can use almost any organic soil potting mix to grow cannabis. I say “organic” because that cuts out a lot of potentially problematic ingredients like slow-release chemical nutrients (which often cause nutrient issues in the flowering stage by delivering too much Nitrogen).

https://www.growweedeasy.com/organic-super-soil

Edited by Rider420 (03/05/21 11:37 AM)