rock wool for guerrilla grow

[salieri]

I usually scout the area around my site for good earth and scrape off a few inches, fill my backpack and then fill the hole at my site. But i have recently moved to a new location and cant seem to find any good earth to crust away. It is too much work and suspicious to actually transport bought soil.

So i was toying around with the idea of using rockwool instead of earth for guerrilla grow, since its lighter and i could compact it tightly in a backpack.

Since if we break it down the only function of good earth is to give the plant stability, retain moisture and leave enough space for air, apart from that the nutrients i provide myself.

Has anybody had any experience with this ?

Or does anybody have any other alternative suggestion?

 

[SpiderK]

bring in your own soil. the rockwool will dry out very fast and invite fungus .....

break up the area with a pickaxe, dump a couple bags ocean forest foxfarm down. put petroleum jelly around the stem for bugs, diatomaceous earth around the plant, or over the mulch or rocks on top layer for water retention. u can also bury a couple two gallon unglazed pots near your plant, fill them up and cover & it will slowly release water over the next week so you do not visit them much .......

if the ground is really crappy but you like the spot make a 50 gallon air pot low and wide. but you will need a couple clay pots per plant. then cover the corners and sides with sticks and broken branches then toss some long grass on it / camo ..... cover the tops of the clay pots after u fill them. tuck it up and under a tree line so they grow towards the sun peeking out. only put two or three in a group and take a different route every time so the grass grows back soon after u leave. or enter your grow from a bush line so you never make tracks..... if someone walks in that area they will never see anything without tracks ....

 

[Purpz]

You're oversimplifying what earth does. It also holds life and provides nutrients, whereas rockwool is sterile and nutrients will wash out as fast as you put them in.

 

[salieri]

hmm, even if i add crystals and slow release nutes ? I also intend to first put a garbage bag into the hole and after earth (wool) cover it up with a plastic tarp, everything highly punctured.

 

[Purpz]

You're better off chucking a couple of bags of soil into a backpack and doing a few trips. Be subtle, be smart and you won't run into any problems. Take a new route each time so that you don't create tracks leading to your plants.

 

[WalterWhiteFire]

Unless you have a watering system in place, this is a terrible idea. It's gonna need water plus food 3-5x a day. Plus you can't compact it into a backpack, rockwool cannot get crushed, unless its granulate. Bags of Soil... FTW.

 

[salieri]

got it thx

another question:
roughly how much soil per plant for a 5 month growth?