I'm shooting for a water only grow ( maybe a tea every now and then ) with some of the soil amendments I got from my garden shop get together. I'll include pictures of each ingredient as well as the amount I added per amount of media . If anyone has opinions , tips, concerns, suggestions , whatever I would really love to hear them as this is mostly an experiment and also a shot in the dark . I started off with roots organic potting soil- 1 gallon (cut with perlite ) Rhyzoforce- 2 tsp Great white - 1/4 tsp Roots organic elemental (cal mag) 2 tsp Roots organic foundation - 1 tsp Mother earth grow amendment - 1/2 cup Dr root- 1/2 tsp on the top half inch of soil. I have a few other amendments I could add, but thought this would be a good start. If you think I should add anything else of what I have please let me know. I'll also add what I'll be using as top dressings and tea brews. First what I used : Here's what else I have :
Anything you plan on using specifically during flowering? Do you have a tea that will boost P & K and also feed the living microbes in the soil? “Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.” — someone awesome
You’ll need a lot of soil for a water only grow. 15 gallons is a good size pot to finish in. Start in two gallons, transplant to 7 gallons after a few weeks. Transplant to 15 gallons and veg for a week before flowering. Im not familiar with any of those ingredients though. Usually just use organic amendments and rock dust with a peat/coco, compost, Perlite base
The Peruvian seabird guano and MOAB can both be brewed alone or with the cultured teas/top dressed. I actually forgot I could use moab , thanks for bringing that up.
The plan is to mix as I go . Once it's time to transplant I'll make another more powerful blend for late veg, then a few days before flower I'll either do the same or at that point just top dress. I'll have to tackle that bridge when I come to it. Everything I used either had worm castings, glacier rock dust, soybean meal, kelp , alfalfa meal, crab meal, oyster meal, ect. I can add a list of ingredients in the morning if that will help but I did check out the simple no till ingredients and everything on there is in the soil through one of these amendments
Give it a shot. I’m not sure how it will turn out without a proper cook time for the microbes to break down the amendments, but I’m sure the first time someone grew in DWC, it was an experiment too.
I could always hit it with some mammoth water then a dr root tea to get things going before I plant. I'll do that tomorrow actually . Thanks for the help
Yw man. I always approach my soil grows with the same concept, 2 gallons to start, 7 gallons mid veg, 15 gallons to flower. I’ve been running the coco DTW for awhile, it’s gonna be refreshing to get back into soil.
Since I'm only using a 2x2 and 4x2 the biggest I can go is 7 gallons and 5 gal in the 2x2 . Unfourtantly I dont have room for my 4x4 right now so that's put away . I just ended up with so much free shit from that event that I figured why not try as many different things as possible. Usually I'm just straight up nectar all the way , but you never know if theres something better out there until you try. I also have a few bags of coco so some point down the line after my nutrient "battle" is over I'm gonna try that out too.