It's super hot the roots organic has enough nutes to let the roots grow and get established. By the time they hit the super soil, they are ready for the nute boost.
I find the plants hit that layer, kind of jolt for a second, then really take off. Apparently planting directly in super soil will fry the plants.
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I fried my plants.
At least two whole crops started from seed had to be thrown out and restarted, the plants were burning from the bottom up, new growth would appear, and the lowers would die off way to fast.
The leaves were clawed and ugly the whole time. This was a few years ago, I have begun to wise up about nuts since then.
The soil was done up similarly to the Subcool soil, I got the outline of the recipie from Soma's book. ( Which is a very good book BTW, best photos and description of supercropping ever. )
The outline of all 'soil mixes' seems to be this:
A whole lot of Coco, or Peat Moss, take your pick. Or, both. Keep in mind these are hydroponic mediums.
Way too much bat guano for phosphorus, or nitrogen, or use both.
Way too much chickenshit.
Way too much bullshit.
Dolomite Lime. Can be of any type, really, it's Cal/Mag in solid form. Use too much.
Greensand/Azomite/some other rare type earth to add in micronuts.
Way too much worm castings.
Kelp/Yukka/Humus, which are in practially all dry nut mix products.
Biologicals.
The main problem these mixes can create, is an very bad overnut condition that results in a lot of wasted money, lost time, and a lost crop.
While mixing this stuff up, a few thoughts crossed my mind:
This much stuff, if it were put in water, and solubleized thereby, were to be used to water the hydroponic medium, it would surely kill the plants. In fact, it did.
The base medium is really just hydro, I am only adding the nuts to the mix now, at the start, instead of watering them in.
That I am following the directions, because that's what they say, and I don't really get why they use this much stuff.
Nor do I have any idea how it does not kill their plants. Perhaps they have some other undocumented habit, or I overlooked some key aspect of the grow directions.
I had the feeling then, quite vindicated now, that adding so much dry nuts to a hydroponic base will form a toxic concentration of nuts.
When my plants did grow, after much flushing, they looked like this guys:
https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/help-plants-are-looking-awful.45875/
The deal is this, not every grower can afford to throw money around, and us newbs ( though I am much less so by now ) need failsafe and *frugal* advice.
Having fried my plants a few times over, I am now only flushing the medium out, and cutting it with fresh coco to reduce the nut concentration back to a resonable level.
These days, I only add a little oystershell to the coco, some dolomite, about a tablespoon per 5 gals.
Same for any nut addition, figure it works like hydro, because with that much peatmoss or coco it is, and a tablespoon per 5 gals is about right for a strong mix, were it to be all water.
Sorry for the Opus, this has been on my mind for days now.
Peace,
Canvas
