Random Growing Tips I Honestly Never Thought About

greengrower73 · May 1, 2026

PlumberSoCal2 said:
Ive been asked many times what I mean by water only for 1st week after seed pop
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This goes for clones before rooting as well. H2o first 7-10 days is all a seedling needs to thrive. If you start off full strength nutes you'll hurt them.

Just water and gently

And if you up pot from solo to 1 gal then fully water again you can get 3-4 weeks from the soil alone, ( with good soil ). I often don't need to feed until about 1 week after transplanting up. then I start with a light feed and work up from there.

greengrower73 · May 1, 2026

Ninjadogma said:
Strategy for More Even Drybacks

If you're fighting uneven drybacks, try this: A top dress preparation with 70% fresh peat and 30% worm castings... Before using it, give it a watering with 2-3 drops of Dr. Bronner castile soap per quart to act as a wetting agent. Or, I don't know what they use in Pro Mix as a wetting agent but it's ideal, and you grab a fistful you feel that fluff.

Leave the perlite out (or don't add any to pro mix and EWC) and it becomes a moisture cap. If there's any unevenness to the soil, it will help level out the moisture. Thought it was worth a share because this one really helped in my situation.

Powdered Yucca at 1/8th tsp/gal of soil/ peat based mixes is an excellent wetting agent. The added perlite of 30- 40% also helps prevent compacting of the soil Promix type soils straight out of the bales do. After multiple waterings and dry backs, specially late in flower it can be a solid mass hard to penetrate and with put a good soaking each time or it just runs off

trygrowup · May 11, 2026

Old school tip for living soil.

Go to a needle forrest.
Take some of the soil.
Mix a handful in your soil or put on top.
Get the benefit from this type of microbes.
Free.
Minimal work.

Some soil mix got it already. Mine does.

Extra good for rhododendron.

Edit: No warning of use but you don't need much

Ninjadogma · May 11, 2026

greengrower73 said:
Powdered Yucca at 1/8th tsp/gal of soil/ peat based mixes is an excellent wetting agent. The added perlite of 30- 40% also helps prevent compacting of the soil Promix type soils straight out of the bales do. After multiple waterings and dry backs, specially late in flower it can be a solid mass hard to penetrate and with put a good soaking each time or it just runs off

Stay tuned... I'm tinkering with the development of something of a soil reusing product and part A of it will be capable of being used as a killer surfectant that outperforms yucca and soapbark alone. If youve ever heard of a surfectant called Revolution thats made by Aquatrol, it's like the NASCAR of surfectants. Or you can like it to Super Slick 50 because it's synthetic. Nothing really compares, they really put something cool together. I'm limited to working with some clever organics, and I expect it to perform like a "high performance sports car" in comparison to Revolution's race car status. And it stays in the organic lane. I set a goal to have samples ready to play with around mid July. Right now I'm still evaluating formulation ratios. Testing / evaluating is slow because it has to undergo a series of dryback cycles.

greengrower73 · May 12, 2026

Ninjadogma said:
Stay tuned... I'm tinkering with the development of something of a soil reusing product and part A of it will be capable of being used as a killer surfectant that outperforms yucca and soapbark alone. If youve ever heard of a surfectant called Revolution thats made by Aquatrol, it's like the NASCAR of surfectants. Or you can like it to Super Slick 50 because it's synthetic. Nothing really compares, they really put something cool together. I'm limited to working with some clever organics, and I expect it to perform like a "high performance sports car" in comparison to Revolution's race car status. And it stays in the organic lane. I set a goal to have samples ready to play with around mid July. Right now I'm still evaluating formulation ratios. Testing / evaluating is slow because it has to undergo a series of dryback cycles.

I use a peat based soil mix then add 1 tbs Azomite/gal, 1 tbs Gypsum/gal, 2 tbs Mycos/gal 10 - 15 % worm castings and 20% more perlite, 1/8 tsp yucca powder/gal in my veg mix, when I transplant up to my final pot I skip the additives as I'm going 100% synthetic nutrients but up my perlite percentage to close to 50%.

madgrower666 · May 12, 2026

Idk if anyone else said this but keep your water in the tent right before watering couple hrs before so the water is almost same temp as soil an plant.

madgrower666 · May 12, 2026

greengrower73 said:
I use a peat based soil mix then add 1 tbs Azomite/gal, 1 tbs Gypsum/gal, 2 tbs Mycos/gal 10 - 15 % worm castings and 20% more perlite, 1/8 tsp yucca powder/gal in my veg mix, when I transplant up to my final pot I skip the additives as I'm going 100% synthetic nutrients but up my perlite percentage to close to 50%.

If you use alot of perilte becareful if you don't flush before using. It can cause bad pH swings

Ninjadogma · Jun 13, 2026

Yeah I've noticed that. I think what you're describing is more attributable to bicarbonates in your water source. Perlite doesn't cause that. It just makes the problem exponentially worse because you've got faster drybacks now potentially leading to quicker crusting. To prevent bicarb stacking, use more volume when you water.

madgrower666 · Jun 13, 2026

Ninjadogma said:
Yeah I've noticed that. I think what you're describing is more attributable to bicarbonates in your water source. Perlite doesn't cause that. It just makes the problem exponentially worse because you've got faster drybacks now potentially leading to quicker crusting. To prevent bicarb stacking, use more volume when you water.

Huh good to think about an know. But I've only had problems with it when I amended extra perilte? Lol idfk tbh I'm definitely not as smart as you. Id actually like to test one-day I have time.

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