I read somewhere that peat moss, native soil and cow manure make a good old school soil mix, I plan on digging 3x3 holes and filling them in with that mixture, and then giving the plants jacks classic fertilizer once they are big enough. The problem is people have been telling me native soil is bad because you can get parasites and shit that can harm your plants, my question is is it really that bad? I would buy like fox farm but for the number of plants I'm doing it would cost me an arm and a leg plus I already bought all the peat moss and cow manure (well the manure I got for free) Is there anything I can add to the mixture that will keep harmful bugs away?
My opinion is you will be ok many people grow straight from the ground. I would recommend adding some inexpensive soil ammendments to the soil, adding a bit of domolite lime, and some other form of compost (mushroom compost, chicken manure) as cow manure is a week compost but ive done it with decent results. If soil ammendments are hard to find i recommend adding bone meal now it can be found at most garden departments and cheap and espoma plant tone its good stuff and affordable and can be found at lowes,
While picking my spots i take the ph levels of the natural water supply(if one) and soil. Then add what may be needed, i.e perlite,moss. Mj like more acidic water but not acidic soil.
[quote name='"Boggieman"']My opinion is you will be ok many people grow straight from the ground. I would recommend adding some inexpensive soil ammendments to the soil, adding a bit of domolite lime, and some other form of compost (mushroom compost, chicken manure) as cow manure is a week compost but ive done it with decent results. If soil ammendments are hard to find i recommend adding bone meal now it can be found at most garden departments and cheap and espoma plant tone its good stuff and affordable and can be found at lowes,[/quote] Awesome yeah I think I'll add some bone meal and espoma, I accidentally bought a big bag of blood meal instead of bone meal any idea what I can use that for? I heard it makes animals dig up your plants
Tis true, all animal derived products can do that. That sort of thing is in most Espoma products to. Check out Down to Earth's Vegan mix. It's about the same price, but doesn't smell like lunch to critters.
[quote name='"FunTimeGrowHap"']Tis true, all animal derived products can do that. That sort of thing is in most Espoma products to. Check out Down to Earth's Vegan mix. It's about the same price, but doesn't smell like lunch to critters.[/quote] Aright cool thanks man
you'd be surprised at how resilient the marijuana plant is. I've seen some people grow wonderful plants under such bad conditions, but the plant pulled through with some fire smoke.
You can place chicken manure at the bottom. It is organic and will last all season. Cow manure is rather weak (low levels of npk) as a poster wrote. If you can, use horse manure. Also Kelp for K and bone meal for P are good to add. Then, just use plain water and/or teas, there's no need to shift to liquid feeding, and especially not chems! You feed your soil, not the plant. So by shifting from organic to chems, you're killing your soil.