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This plant has had very few feedings of anything, once she got some calmag and some BioBizz Acti Vera, other then that she has had nothing but soil microbes and bacteria in the Fox Farm mix of Happy Frog, Ocean Forrest and Coco Loco. I did add Ocean Forrest only as top dressings twice. She is far into flower and doing well with zero synthetic nutrients, rather the microbes gave the plant what she wanted, and when she wanted, just as what has happens in nature since the beginning of life. She is starting to mature...
That is amazing!
That depends on which soils we would be comparing. BioBizz has a soil called All Mix which is very similar to what I do with my Fox Farm mixture. BioBizz also has a lite mix as does Fox Farm which is called Light Warrior. If using BioBizz lite or
Light Warrior, one must feed the plants sooner, more often.IMO in soil grows we should feed the soil and not the plant. It is the microbial life in the soil, Bacteria, Fungi, Protozoa, Nematodes that will make the nutrients in the soil into a soluble form ready for plant root uptake right at the root zone. So when I say feed the soil I am meaning feed with these wonderful microbes then feed them. With a health diverse population the plant will form symbiotic relationship with some of them, sending signals and food back and forth. The soil can also be called a 'Food Web'... The soil must be aerobic, it must have structure, bacteria produce micro aggregates, in simple terms these tiny streets, passage ways, allow for oxygen, water to be available, they also prevent the bad guys (bad microbes, virus, pathogens) from living, as they prefer low oxygen, which is one of the dangers you will never see anybody mention in this manner. You will be told if you over water you can actually drown your plant, you prevent the plant from getting oxygen. That is true but there is more to it, you are also creating an environment that is ideal for the bad guys to now take over. They love low oxygen while the good guys hate it. So by overwatering you create a condition for the diseases, the pests, bad organisms to grow and thrive, which your plants will ultimately suffer and might just die, and it will show up as nutrient deficiencies. Inorganic fertilizers in the soil will leach out into the atmosphere, it is the microbes that keep it from leaving, you must have the biology in the soil to retain the nutrients, this is where bacteria and fungi play a critical role. Anyways I am going down a path that I can lecture for volumes, i'll get back to your question.
I use a 3 part mixture of Fox Farm products. 1 part Happy Frog, 1 Part Ocean Forrest, and 1 Part Coco Loco. Our soils mixture is mixed in large storage crates purchased from Walmart. the ingredients in Happy Frog and Ocean Forrest are excellent when used together, and the Coco is used to make it lighter, better drainage, easier for the production of micro aggregates. You don't want packed down soil, and never pack down your soil. I focus on feeding the soil with beneficial microbes during plant growth. Building a population in the soil and in the root zone. This method allows us to grow a Auto flower from start to stop with very little synthetic nutrient feedings. I don't like using synthetic nutrients but we do stock certain products for when and if we should see a deficiency that we need to respond to, which often doesn't happen until we are well into flower. We also add a top dressing of pure Ocean Forrest around the 4 week mark. I always allow room for top dressings in our fabric pots during our grows. Never will I fill a pot to the top and then plant a seed. Here is another seldom said tip for soil grows, the taller the container the better, now we don't always follow this, but have found the increased root depth makes for more robust biology which inturn produces a superior plant.
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Dude that is so much top notch info, and to pull all that off the top of your head?! This is the reason I came to this sight in the first place, always get more info than you could ever ask for.That depends on which soils we would be comparing. BioBizz has a soil called All Mix which is very similar to what I do with my Fox Farm mixture. BioBizz also has a lite mix as does Fox Farm which is called Light Warrior. If using BioBizz lite or
IMO in soil grows we should feed the soil and not the plant. It is the microbial life in the soil, Bacteria, Fungi, Protozoa, Nematodes that will make the nutrients in the soil into a soluble form ready for plant root uptake right at the root zone. So when I say feed the soil I am meaning feed with these wonderful microbes then feed them. With a health diverse population the plant will form symbiotic relationship with some of them, sending signals and food back and forth. The soil can also be called a 'Food Web'... The soil must be aerobic, it must have structure, bacteria produce micro aggregates, in simple terms these tiny streets, passage ways, allow for oxygen, water to be available, they also prevent the bad guys (bad microbes, virus, pathogens) from living, as they prefer low oxygen, which is one of the dangers you will never see anybody mention in this manner. You will be told if you over water you can actually drown your plant, you prevent the plant from getting oxygen. That is true but there is more to it, you are also creating an environment that is ideal for the bad guys to now take over. They love low oxygen while the good guys hate it. So by overwatering you create a condition for the diseases, the pests, bad organisms to grow and thrive, which your plants will ultimately suffer and might just die, and it will show up as nutrient deficiencies. Inorganic fertilizers in the soil will leach out into the atmosphere, it is the microbes that keep it from leaving, you must have the biology in the soil to retain the nutrients, this is where bacteria and fungi play a critical role. Anyways I am going down a path that I can lecture for volumes, i'll get back to your question.
I use a 3 part mixture of Fox Farm products. 1 part Happy Frog, 1 Part Ocean Forrest, and 1 Part Coco Loco. Our soils mixture is mixed in large storage crates purchased from Walmart. the ingredients in Happy Frog and Ocean Forrest are excellent when used together, and the Coco is used to make it lighter, better drainage, easier for the production of micro aggregates. You don't want packed down soil, and never pack down your soil. I focus on feeding the soil with beneficial microbes during plant growth. Building a population in the soil and in the root zone. This method allows us to grow a Auto flower from start to stop with very little synthetic nutrient feedings. I don't like using synthetic nutrients but we do stock certain products for when and if we should see a deficiency that we need to respond to, which often doesn't happen until we are well into flower. We also add a top dressing of pure Ocean Forrest around the 4 week mark. I always allow room for top dressings in our fabric pots during our grows. Never will I fill a pot to the top and then plant a seed. Here is another seldom said tip for soil grows, the taller the container the better, now we don't always follow this, but have found the increased root depth makes for more robust biology which inturn produces a superior plant.
I personally use Biobizz lightmix, and at least biogrow + bloom. But have used most of the line up in the past except bioheaven and activera. And I have found it okay so far, I am still a new grower so I'm finding it hard to compare what I'm doing. In my current thread I have vegged 3 plants for 12 weeks, and on week 7 flower. I can never seem to get the plants to fill out, I feel it may be down to an old hps bulb, but could be how I feed as well. Seen that it's recommended to feed every watering and currently on 4ml bloom 3ml grow, I feel that's a lot of nutes as I'm watering about 8 litres between three 10l fabric pots every day. Would you say this is too heavy for a light mix? Its what Biobizz recommend on the charts. I would love to go full super soil one day, but in a small flat it's a bit less convenient.
Thanks again for the great read! Ill be sending some rep your way!
