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anyone ever grown soiless with vermiculite

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anyone ever grown soiless with vermiculite

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#1
Can plain vermiculite be used for a soiless mix? has anyone ever done it, what the general consensus about growing in straight verm. It seems like it would hold water and oxygen very well, maybe too well???
 
#2
I did vermeculite and perilite at 50% each and it worked awesome
 
#3
hmm good ? i never tried, my clone setup is rockwool ontop of verm. so i would think it would work. im sure someone on here has tried.
 
#5
I'm telling ya 50 / 50 0f each and it will amaze you:muscle
 
#7
Zoolander said:
I'm telling ya 50 / 50 0f each and it will amaze you:muscle
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i got both so you know what im gonna do one. try it out, thanks for the info, what did you feed it anything else i need to kno if i try it out
 
#8
No shit! haha, 50 50 eh? I am going to give it a go! Thanks for the replies! Peace!
 
#9
How often would I have to water 2 gallon grow bags filled 50/50 perlite/verm? Does it dry out quickly?
 
#10
I miss the old P.F. TEK mushroom kits. That was the last time I munched any shrooms and that was a while ago now!!!
 
#11
It can dry out a bit faster but not much and it will take you a little time to get your water schedule down but once you wire it you can't go wrong .
 
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Caress of Steel said:
I miss the old P.F. TEK mushroom kits. That was the last time I munched any shrooms and that was a while ago now!!!
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i still never have but gotta hair up my butt and tried it, made some cakes . outta 10 jars to took and are doing fine, i like to try new stuff and what worked for me was fresh cow poop mixed in with the cake worked great. got best of both growing ways. cow poop was alittle hard to get lol, had to sneak into a local cow farm, get chased by a bull i didnt know i was there scoop up poop and run lik ehell back over fence while people driveing bye are wtf is this guy doing runing across the street with a bag of cow poop. im not a big shoom guy like i said never did b4 but my buddy is, and i love to have projects so i gave it a shot
 
#14
The other thing guys is you gotta make sure you treat it like any other medium and keep salt from building up so every third or fourth watering just use ph water to flush salts out and also water to runoff every time you water:flower
 
#15
Zoolander said:
The other thing guys is you gotta make sure you treat it like any other medium and keep salt from building up so every third or fourth watering just use ph water to flush salts out and also water to runoff every time you water:flower
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cool thanks, im gonna try it for sure, just for kicks im gonna do 2 one in my usuall cheap soil and one with the 50 50 and see how they do.
 
#16
You should see 100% + faster growth , Start your nutes at 30 % of what the bottle says and then once ready bump up to 50 % and you should be golden:flower
 
#17
Google "Hempy Buckets"

3 to 1 perlite/vermiculite works well and 100% perlite works just as well.

Good Luck!
 
#18
sweet thanks all, ill take alot of pics of both and post it for future members, plus i wanna see the diffrence side bye side
 
#19
how large can you go with just perlite as the medium? i would like to try it but think if i did them big the plants would unroot or tip over.
 
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