New Grower Dirt Cheap Organic Grow

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So your broke but you want to start a new grow. Well if you have a place to grow, or a room with a grow light, you can't get any cheaper than an organic grow. Whatt??? Organic cheap?? Well, if your thinking mixing up a "super soil", then no, it won't be cheap. But, I'm willing to bet, and am about to prove, that you can grow a damn fine plant in a 1 gallon contain with nothing more than a bag of organic soil, stay away from the fancy name brand stuff, too expensive. I got a 30 quart bag or organic potting soil, from Isabelle, a Canadian company. I pay $3.50 a bag. For my summer grow I used about 12 bags. For this grow, I'm going even cheaper, I'm using my recycled organic soil. For added nutrients, you have a couple low price options. GrowMore's Organic Soil Builder. It's basically similar to a super soil additive type blend, various meals and guano, etc. All organic and cheap to buy and cheap to use. I paid $5.85 for a 4 pound box. I've used it quite a bit ans still have a far amount left. Another option is worm castings. you should be able to get a small bag for $ 8 or so. I started my own worm farm a while back, and I'm going to use some of my own worm castings. And that's all I'm adding, just the worm castings. I mixed about 2 1/2 cups of castings into the recycled soil and filled the one gallon pot
Cost so far for this grow? $0.00... Even the seed I will use, is some from my own seed run I just completed, Auto Cush x Chemdogging ( Thanks Mitch! ).

I just planted it straight to dirt and watered it with RO water. And that’s all she'll get the rest of the grow, water. Lets see how well a very basic, organic grow can do! I'm willing to bet you'll want to ditch those chemical nutes!

 

[Loud Pipes]

Pullin up a chair. I'm subbed. Pipes

 

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well, first seed never sprouted. I germed a few in paper towel and got a good sprout. I transfered it into the pot yesterday. Maybe now we can get this rolling!

 

[Ackmo]

I know organic can be really cheap. I grew some killer blackberry kush this past fall with econo block of soiless mix and a bottle of Alaska fish fert for veg. Then a box kelp and a bag of guano in combo with some no npk stuff I had laying around to make a flowering tea. I yeilded over a pound of top shelf quality nuts for under $100. Not including electricity of course. Anyway I will bewatching. Good grow karma brother.

 

[hecno]

I'll be following along .

 

[Vas Deferens]

I too will be following

 

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And we have liftoff! Seedling sprouted this morning! Now the fun begins!

 

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Update:
Just a pic to show its shooting up quickly! So far, so good!

 

[A John In Nj]

Update:
Just a pic to show its shooting up quickly! So far, so good!

Excellent!

Good luck with the grow!

 

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Update:

My seedling is doing fine! She has some stretch but that’s ok with my, shows she's striving to reach for light. Watered just a little, maybe an once. I'm trying to keep the plants moist but not saturated. I don't like the flood to 20% over technique so I'm working on figuring out, approximately how much water it takes to make the soil damp from top to bottom. I'm going to take a pot and some moderately dry soil, and them remove soil to see how far the watering dispersed. right now I used about 12oz ger gallon of soil for mature plants. I keep seedlings a little dryer, make them search for water. The goal os to water using x number of oz of water, depending on pot size. Maybe its just a crazy idea, but I'm thinking maybe its not...lol!

Here's a pic of my cheap date...: