I just started a couple plants 6 weeks into veg, did you find yourself needing to add nutrients during certain cycles or did you just use the soil itself?
@@MeesterBoop The main cycle that I kept an eye on is bloom. Typicaslly there are plenty of nutrients for thew plants early stages of life in these soils but some plants are just big growers and for that Ill supplement with some bloom nutirents
Within the last year, I tried Roots Organic formula 707 (4), Roots Organic Greenfields (5), Build-A-Soil light (2), Coast of Maine Stonington blend (3), and Build-A-Soil 3.0 (1) and rated each in parentheses. I also wanted to try Bio365, but haven't been able to find it. Honestly, I'm so impressed with both Build-A-Soil blends that I stopped trying new bagged soils. I now use Build-A-Soil 3.0 exclusively. After each grow, I just re-amend the BAS soil with Craftblend, worm castings, and a good compost. I'm sure many beginners will benefit from your video.Thanks for the video, I found it very educational.
@@jhonwayne1003 complicated noooo not even lol but also nothing is easy at first. But yeah promix was one of the ones I wanted to try but like I said BAS never let me down
💯 purple cow from From clone to harvest all the way through didn't need amendments. But I threw some end. Some of the best smoke I've had in years from this soil.
I started with bioall 365 full grow mix some mykhos and Gaia green 4-4-4 and my results have been great. Fed after about 5 weeks after going in soil and about once they were established in veg then again during flip. They are doing great.
First time grower. Best thing I ever discovered was BuildaSoil 3.0. Plants have had no issues and are super healthy. Added some BuildaFlower top dressing before flowering and some BuildaBloom a few weeks in. Add in incredible customer service and I am a customer for life.
Tried and true. Start all my plants is straight happy frog. Then transplant into 50/50 Happy frog/Ocean forest. Gets me 4 weeks of veg. But thanks for saying HF only gets you a few weeks. People hate on it because they try to go 4-6 weeks in it and they are stunted.
Outdoors in 30 gal happy frog do you think they will be able to go all the way through flower in the next month or two over a week or two into flower at least no bud quite yet but they’re massive like 45 feet tall and at least 34 feet wide Mega massive trees. They’re doing better than another 30 go. I have that’s a different strain that’s got ocean Forest mixed in, but that one started out like a 10 gallon Coco core was indoor for months before she transitioned outdoors so she didn’t have a smooth lift off I’m wondering if she’ll produce nicer flowers because she has a lot more nutrients to get into as her dig down deeper through the weeks of flower And tips would be greatly appreciated. I really have worm castings and Coke meal for amendments at the moment. Researching curious about other options and things to add as well cause I had some yellowing leaves and stuff that looked like deficiencies earlier on my other plants with the ocean forest, mostly the first few weeks after she got transplanted into that big pot wasn’t sure if the soil was too hot or if it was just generally too hot outdoors, but now seem to lot more adapted to it she’s very green, but her leaves are not nearly as enormous as the monster that on the other side of my housenot sure if it’s just a location or if it’s the fact that they transition smoother or they’re just better genetics because they are some pretty quality beans from the dispensary so they should be true
@@banappeal_8121 Oh man it could be a couple different things. Transplanting in general is quite the event for plants so it could have been a little stresed plus if you went from coco to a heartier soil it could have been a little shock for the plants. Also for the happy frog plants, you may want to introduce some gaia green power bloom to help carry those though. ITs a easy to use organic dry amendment that takes around 2 weeks to break down but adds a lot of beneficial amendments to the soil. Check out our video on that and let me know if you have anymore questions!
My understanding on the BAS 3.0 is that they added the mustard seed meal, in part, to make it a little less desirable to fungus gnats. So far I have not experienced issues with this recipe, so maybe it helped 😁
I had a 1000 lb tote of the Build A Soil 3.0 mix delivered on a pallet from Colorado to Virginia and I can say unequivocally that it is the best growing medium I have used. Incredible results with average yields of 2 1/2 lbs of dried flower per 4'x4' space. I'm currently on my 2nd run in the same soil. Side note: The Big Rootz soil blend from the SoilKing is an equally great product if you can get it in your area.
The last two years I have been using Coast of Maine Stonington Blend as my base. I like a nice diversity in my garden media. I do use some BAS ingredients to basically make my own version of their 3.0. I'm a very big fan of Craft Blend! Two other ingredients that go into my base are the Montana Grow Volcanic silica and the pumice that they sell. I always cook my media before use. I add all my amending ingredients, with some intended to feed the microbes and fungi. When I pot up a bag or an Earthbox, that media is highly active microbially and fungally. This last batch that I made, in addition to my normal compost T to inoculate everything, I added BAS product called RootWise and brewed it for the last four hours of the compost tea brewing. It definitely made a difference in the root intrusion into the nutrient mound of my Earthboxes. I have a set amount of ingredients that forms the nutrient mound. Same strain same tent same light, the root intrusion into the nutrient bound occurred far quicker than it has before. The root intrusion is how I gage the timing when a second top dressing to the nutrient mound is needed. I definitely hand to change my schedule. Naturally, with bigger roots, you're going to have a bigger plant and that's what occurred. I also had to flip sooner than anticipated.
this year for the first time I mixed my own soil with ingredients that are available in my area as best as I can. Used home made compost from the garden, produced with comfrey, straw , horse manure from the year before. I tried a coco based living soil without peat(really wanted to ditch the peat because of environmental reasons) , but in all other aspects pretty much like the build a soil - clackamas coot-style recipe. Started outdoors automatics as a test and I am so happy with the results, that I will continue to mix my own soil. Had no Issues with any nutrients. No burns, no deficits, no calmag related issues. Only thing I propably got to admit is that peat based soil would retain water a bit better. Coco on the other hand doesn't get hydrophobic once dry. shout out to Jeremy from Buildasoil for the education and information he gives out for free. Check out his podcasts and homepage!
So ive been looking into organics and ive heard alot of good stuff about natures living soil. From whatvi understand i could take something like happy frog and mix it all together and it be good for the majority of the grow? Any experience with a natures living soil mix? I do have experience with 1 grow using cheap soil and gaia green. I definitly seen results from gaia green and plan on keeping some around to top dress. Or would top dressing even be needed in a natures living soil mix? Autoflowers and 5 gallon pots for reference. Really wanna knock my first "good grow" out of the park
During the slurry test you mentioned Build a soil having not nearly the amount of perlite… well that’s because there is no perlite in it. They use pumice which is way better and doesn’t float to the top when used on multiple runs like perlite does. People that mention the price of Build a soil and that’s one of the differences, pumice is much heavier than perlite but acts similar as far as drainage but way better for no till. Not to mention all the rest of the premium organic materials not just a bunch of bone meal or feather meal from gmo fed animals. Build a Soil is by far the best and the only soil I use.
It does float. Even some pieces were in the video. Just not nearly as bad as perlite. Theyve moved away from too much rice hulls as well. Something heavy metal something
Yea when I first got it I opened it and saw white stuff. Immediately assumed it was mold because I left it in my attic for a month before I used it. It was dry when I opened it but just have to moisten it up a few days before you put your plant in. I mix mines with a lot of coco, then my top layer is coco worm casting mix! It drains right out when watered. No way you can over water!
Really love the video as a new grower, but as a blind viewer, if you could just audio, describe some of the stuff going on in the video, I’m sure there was very good cinematography to capture what you were doing and didn’t need much words for your viewers that are visual But you could do that for people like myself or even those that may not want over the phone or in the moment would be appreciated but nonetheless your work is tremendously respected thank you for what you do open my soil last without needing to amend too much and I have a nice harvest outdoors this year for the first time Happy growing and smoking to everybody nothing but love
I use 1 part ocean 1 part coco ( coco soaked in Cal/mag for 16 hours)…4 cups of Pearlite , 2 cups of worm castings. 5 gallon bucket with holes for drainage and grow dots in top half of soil..Only use 4gal chart when weighing grow dot. Best grow I’ve had in two yrs of trying different methods. From, just soil, hydro, coco, hydro/soil mix.. to this. Obviously hydro is the best but you’re going to be fighting a ton of humidity issues.
Outstanding testing methodology but I have no idea what the results mean and how do they translate to a superior media. And I always add perlite to any bag media.
Mother Earth dirt here. 2 seasons going on 3. Coco dirt mix. 70coco to 30dirt seems to be the best blend so far. 50/50 works good also but tend to bring fungus gnats with more dirt
This was such a great video, thank you!!! Can you make a part 2 with Roots Organics, ProMix and Mother Earth plz? 😁 These are other soils I’ve seen in one of my local grow shops
Coast of Maine was the best soil ive use by far! Its my preferred soil to use..ive learned to go more of a 50/50 mix. 50% Stonington blend and C.O.M Airation blend (coco and compost) and its bad ass.
You absolutely need more drainage in the Coast of Maine, I used it a few runs but it was too muddy for me. Royal Gold Tupur coco blend is my go to or straight Floraflex loose fill coco with 20% perlite.
I hear a decent amount of growers using it. It’s a little harder to get in my area but I’ll see if I can get my hands on that and hit some more research about it
wow spectacular video! very fun! The last water test was super cool out of the bag but I would assume if you could water the soils then let them rest and do the test again once they are hydrated your results might change. In other words starting with a similar moisture content.
Hey thanks I really appreciate it. Yea I hear ya, I guess I tried to replicate what a consumer might have to deal with by just purchasing the soil and what they could expect out the gate. I would love to dive deeper into this though!
@@HappyHydro Yes100% I loved seeing the water go into the soil and saturate it! Very fun and haven't seen others do this. But one mistake we make is overwatering so, once the soils are moist another similar test would show which mix is loosing moisture the fasters or keeping it the longest. slight overwater and those gnats start coming! hahahaha
I re use bio soil Gypsum and Gaia green and build a soil inputs. Never ever touched fox or anything else. Frankly I prefer to mix everything my hand... Hate perlite
I need fabric pots I just don’t have the cash rn, I just spent my only budget on getting an outlet timer for my plant, could you guys possibly help out a grower?
What happened to the sohum soil that happy hydro used to carry? Used that stuff back when i was learning to grow few years back before i went full buildasoil and that stuff was great!
Learn what your soil needs. Your not feeding the plant but more like feeding the soil each soil is great in it own right. Just depends on how you choose to use it Great Vid
I have a problem with watering bio flower and Bioall it just seems like I’m always overwatering plus I use led and the top inch or 2 dry out and that’s supposed to be good for the microbes in the soil. Any feed back would be appreciated.
Water heavily when you transplant them wait 7 days or so, let it really dry out so the roots search for water, they will get big Down there and eliminate the over watering issue by just becoming huge and absorbing a lot of water
@@user-laynlow420you got the living soil off Amazon? In the US? I need a link. The rep told me they can’t send to states because the soil doesn’t pass certain tests for the states.
You get what you put into your plants. Using Organic fertilizer. Week 4 you need to feed them Nitrogen fertilizer. Once a week feed them ( cold war organic Angels touch) potassium. For microbiology I used ( Fish shit)
I dropped all that stuff permanently for aquasoil, I’ll never buy potting soil again since volcanic soil is the best growing medium all over the world.
The dark color of the water in the slurry test of the Purple Cow Indicanja leads me to think in has the most Humic Acid. I have never used Indicanja but I have been using Purple Cow compost for 14yrs as it is made here in Madison Wi, and it does make for some very dark runoff. Brews great compost tea as well
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Hey thanks for the input! I always appreciate when folks bring info to the table and are able to share it so that we can all make the best decisions for ourselves and our plants! That's what I love about this community. I am no expert but just a guy that wants to help share whatever I can with the world. Happy growing!
Put some plants in the soil not vegetables 🥗 and then rate them I know for sure that the 3.0 will kick 🦵 as really all of them soils are good it’s up to the grower to have some insight about what’s going on because every situation is different like temperature humidity and what part of the world 🌎 you live in and last but least the type of light 💡 your using LED or Hight pressure sodium I think you guys no what I’m saying
