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Originally Posted by Onehitpollock  1) If I decide to go straight from germination to in the outdoor ground, how should I adjust the soil mixture/growers guide.
2) I've heard if you use organic soil with all these worm castings and nutes, you shouldn't add any nutrients to the soil for at least 2 weeks. So why do you say to add nutes under the plant before planting? |
Hi,
-dig holes
-place 1/2 shovel manure, A cup blood meal, 1,5 cup bone meal
-mulch
-leave for 1-2 months or more (to attract worms and micro organisms)
- take off mulch (or not) cover with less hot soil mix. Add whole fish. Add grown (female) plant. Water with organic teas. If you use a soil mix with slow release ferts in it, water with plain water for 1-2 months until it cools off and then water with teas. I don't use FFOF (not available here).
Link on Organic tea feeding schedule: http://forum.grasscity.com/general-o...w-growing.html Guerilla Green's swamp method:
"I just cut the bottoms out of 20 gallon rubbermaid totes and jam them down a couple inches in the mucky swamp. I just break up the swampy ground first with a shovel and there should be just a little standing water in the spot you break up. Then I just put one coco coir block in each tote. I mix in a few gallons of top soil, a pound of worm castings, a pound of tropical bat guano, and a half cup of dolomite lime. I just mix it all up and plant."
Corto's easy soil mix and growing summary:
Start them in solo cups at home -yard- or indoors or outdoors (add slug repellant and copper rings to repel slugs). I placed a crate on an elevated bush with small pots inside the crate. 1 seed per pot. In the solo cups: 50 % store bought good potting soil (no ferts though), 20 worm castings, 30 native soil (dirt) and/or (builder’s) sand (river sand is heavier but works ok too).
For a 2x2x2 hole:
-1 cup blood meal (N)
-1,5 bone meal. (P) or alfalfa meal
- 1/2 shovel composted manure (I have a kind with horse, poulty manures and seaweed/kelp mixed in for K).
- some rock dust
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-20-30 native soil (the top soil, top 7-8 inches of soil from holes you dig or elsewhere if your soil is all clay for example.
-The 5 things above you mix and put at bottom hole. Cover with mulch, leave for 1-2 months. The worms and micro organisms will come and eat the mix and be excellent to protect and aid your plant.
- What to add after 2 months: it depends on your region and type of land you use (a swampy area in a hot region will still be very wet of course).
- for dry regions on a dry spot (like me): add 20 worm castings, 30 compost, 20-30 vemiculite/peat.
- for wet region: add same first 2 but 20/30 perlite (or builder's sand)/peat.
The remaining 20-30 are the top soil and manures/meals/kelp that are at the bottom.
Also add 1/4 cup dolomitic lime powder.
Water with light teas after 1 month in soil. 2 or 3 shots of w.c tea or nettles (N), fish emulsion (N)(or enzyme emulsion-better-: see Lumperdawgs). Or compost tea (N) etc... Ratio: 1/20. Go 1/30 very light at first so they get a taste of it first you know.
When the buds appear,for ex., use high P liquid bat guano.
Feed them K in veg and flowering. And a little of N in flowering. A little of P in veg.
So in veg: N + K (with a bit of P)
In flow: P + K (with a bit of N)
Twice in season epsom salts (1tsp per gallon)
Last 3 weeks, give them just molasses(1-2 TBS per gallon). N.B: You can kill them with too much organic nutes too. A little goes a long way.
Dig a hole with a mound if it rains a lot. And use more grit/sand/perlite.
Dig a hole without a mound if it's dry. Line bottom and/or sides with brown paper bags (decompose with time), use more peat/vermi. If it's veeery hard to access, use water crystals (synthetic though). Some say taste not affected but it's not organic anymore.
Good luck. The main thing is to be discrete and plan eveything to only visit at night. Of course tell no one and go as rarely as possible. Don't choose a spot with too much sun (means a lot of watering), , minimum 5. 8 is perfect. Use a nearby water source or bring a lot of water at a time in car you hide over there or use a watering machine if you're good at DIY. I'm not. Choose your spot well by scouting very well. Don't rush into digging. But do a lot of scouting to have the perfect spot(s). See my sticky (page 1-3 has links about choosing your spots). Just grow 10-12 females if this is your first. They'll give you a LOT if you beat nature and rippers. It's better that just 3-4 big ones make it to the finish line than 3-6 skimpy ones. You need to provide your plants with everything and they WILL go crazy and give you pounds. 1 plant = 150-200 grams. 4 skinny ones = less.
Ok? Be safe!