Bulldog11
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Total Exchange Capacity. Same thing really. :)
Is your soil a water only blend or do you still add in top dressing or teas? Danks in advance.Still no soil tests in this thread? You guys just guessing what works and doesn't work? Here are some test results of the best first year soil I have used. I suggest you guys start testing your soil, or you have no idea how good it is. The difference between a healthy plants, and a perfectly healthy plant is huge. Use Logan Labs, and stop guessing.
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Not bad numbers out of 45 gal light deps, this info really helps thanks and if you don't mind, how do you transition into your first light dep harvest of the summer?That is soil results from coots mix. What determines if a mix is water only is the volume of media. If you have the best, most nutrient rich mix, in a one gallon pot for an outdoor monster, you will have to feed. However the same soil in 400 gallons of soil will be water only.
Soil all comes down to meeting the William Albrect numbers. The longer you can maintain those numbers through your grow, is what determines how good your product will be. So I argue, that almost any soil mix, will need some sort of feed during the year. I get my soil numbers right on the money, then I concentrate on keeping those levels throughout the grow. That may mean an extra foliar feed here, or a top dress there. However, when your soil volume is high, and your soil is quality, the closer that soil is to water only. Hope this helped.
BTW - I pulled two harvests off that soil test without re-amending. I did feed a couple times each season, but very little. Those plants where 4' tall plants in 45 gallon pots in my deps that averaged about .75 #'s each.
Were they seed, clone, started indoor or out...stuff like that and how soon is to soon in the spring to do first light depNumbers could have been better, I messed up my veg times for the space. It was my first dep in that greenhouse, so I could improve.
Not sure what your asking in your last question.....Could you explain please? Transition into dep?
@dutch69lover That seems really loaded up. Got any soil tests?
Im just going with flora bloom, worm castings, bloom bat guano, and super thrive
Flora Bloom is actually pretty good in terms of a partially synthetic fertilizer. It's low NPK, so it's not going to kill microbes, and it stains so badly because of its humic acid content. I feel it can be used in a 'best practices' style.
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