never grew in soil b4 i need some advise

[Shurbb]

I dont know wut nutrients to use or soil really i got a bag of miracle grow organic soil. If someone could just tell me wut stuff i need to buy i can read directions. I would prefer to go all organic but wut ever gets me budz is cool. Yea so i guess just let me know whut brands and stuff you use or i should get.

[aaaaaa]

Never used it but head good things about Vic's Super soil

http://www.drugs-forum.co.uk/growfaq/428.htm

Use the revised recipe and dont worry about fritted trace elements.

Just mix it and your set, no fertilizing or anything. And the bud tastes better when you go organic.

[pokernaut]

DEFINATELY grow organic. you'll get much better flavor than you will with chemicals. i used some seriously diluted chemical fert in an organic grow of tiny plants i pruned daily, and it gave them a nasty bitter metallic/soapy flavor. YUCK!

everyone here has recommended fox farms soil to me to the point where they'd even have it shipped, but you can create a really good nutrient rich soil with more common soils. ALOT of soils, particularly in the west, use composted bark fines. instead of being actual soil, theuy're really mostly shredded up & composted tree materials.

i didn't like them at first being used to topsoil as my base mostly because they don't bind together well when transplanting unless your plants are nearly rootbound, but they are nutrient rick and aerate very well. someone here said such soils are "like gold". speaking of that, black gold's all organic soil is one such pruduct.

you can also add nutrient rich composts to your mix. manure is really cheap and won't burn plants, but according to an article i just reat at high times, it can make soild more acidic and should be composted. there are composted chicken, steer & horse manures out there that can be found at most department stores that have decent gardening sections and especially at well stocked nurseries.

worm castings are another nutrient rich soil additive to consider. 10% is the recommended amount to use, but it won't burn plants if you use more and has a texture similar to peat moss.

one last organic soil that is starting to get popular you might want to look into is coconut coir, but i don't know anything about that one yet.

alot of better composted soils also include other high quality nutrients like bat guano, kelp meal (expensive if bought seperately), PH stabilyzing lime and with worm castings along with other materials.

i'm using a mixture of composted bark fines soils, composted chicken manure, composted steer manure & worm castings in my organic grow and will add organic ferts from concentrate before harvest if needed.

if you're not growing in a sea of green setup, a large container (eg. 5 gallons) would go along way towards making sure your plants are well fed.

check out the FAQs at high times, they answer alot of growing questions with several topics about soil