How and When to Plant My Seeds

[NugPufr]

I plan on using a super soil recipe to grow my 5 Girl Scout Cookie seeds. I would like to know if I should plant the seeds in ordinary potting soil for a couple of days before adding them to the super soil recipe after it has cooked for 30 days? I will also be planting these in buckets for an outside grow. also do you think this recipe will be big enough for 5, 5 gallon containers? Or should I increase it?

This is the recipe I plan on using for my super soil:

1/4 Recipe
2 large bags of a high-quality organic potting soil with coco fiber and mycorrhizae (i.e., your base soil)
6.25 to 12.5 lbs of organic worm castings
1.25lbs or 20 ounces steamed bone meal
1.25lbs or 20 ounces bloom bat guano
1.25lbs or 20 ounces blood meal
3/4 lbs rock phosphate
3/16 cup or 3 tablespoons Epsom Salts
1/8 cup or 2 tablespoons sweet lime (dolomite)
1/8 cup or 2 tablespoons azomite (trace elements)
1.5 teaspoons powdered humic acid

 

[MediScrogs]

I'm not qualified to say whether your mix is balanced or not, but I think you need either more lime and/or other sources of calcium such as oyster shell flour. Hopefully some of the more knowledgeable guys here can give you some input on that.

Have you read the stickies in this forum? Should be plenty of recipes.

For planting, though, do NOT plant straight into that soil, you need to plant into your lighter base mix.

 

[Eyes on Fire]

that 1/4 recipe of subcools isnt a great one. it lacks lime,castings and too hot for autos for a few reasons. so it would prolly be better to pick another.if you choose to use this one i'll come back and run it down,But i would highly recommend using a more ballanced and complete mix fir autos over a photo batch that'll have to be thinned some.

 

[AutoFox]

I would strongly suggest you listen to Eyes on fire. It's for your own benefit Nugpufr.

 

[NugPufr]

Thank you for letting me know about this. I am looking to use a super soil recipe so all I have to do is water my GSC. Are there any soil recipes that you can give me that would be appropriate for what I want to do? I have looked all over and this one seemed pretty simple.

 

[Anthropolis]

Yeah Eyes knows his stuff, he still mentors me on organics quite a bit. I'd say for autos, you could completely remove the bat guano from the soil mix. (later, much later, when they're in flowering, you could use the guano as a topdressing or in a tea, but before that it's just gonna fry things and you can't remove it.) It looks generally too hot. I think it'd need more lime, and more Epsom salt, and more calcium like Gypsum rock dust or crushed oyster shells. The blood meal could be dialed back. It could really use some compost like cow poop or mushroom compost.

 

[NugPufr]

that 1/4 recipe of subcools isnt a great one. it lacks lime,castings and too hot for autos for a few reasons. so it would prolly be better to pick another.if you choose to use this one i'll come back and run it down,But i would highly recommend using a more ballanced and complete mix fir autos over a photo batch that'll have to be thinned some.

I am a complete newbie at this and I want to make it as simple as possible. Is there a super soil recipe that you could give me?

 

[AutoFox]

I believ Eyes on fire has a few threads on this very subject.
https://www.autoflower.org/index.php?threads/100-organic-grow.29883/
He also has a few more as well. I wasn't trying to discredit what you were thinking about doing but Eyes on fire has helped countless amounts of people on here with the knowledge he posses and sharing. That is very cool of him to do so. If you can do a quick search for some of his other postings The info you may find will answer alot of your questions. Hope you find what you are looking for.

 

[Eyes on Fire]

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/guy-smiley-organics-fully-organic-soil-aact-building.46175/

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/building-a-healthy-soil.41139/

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/a-good-tea-template.39439/

https://www.autoflower.org/threads/inoculants.33320/

these should give you a solid amount of info. but as far as a recipe and your a beginner kinda?, I would personally grow a simplified system such as the 5LB pack from tlosoil.com or similar.Kind soil has some good grows behind it and we are testing it now as a matter of fact.so Id say go with either of those to start and learn and watch and read as you go for the first grow or three and then you'll be able to tinker till your hearts content lol

buy some coco coir a 10 LB brick or so.a cpl of 30 gallon tubs,and a cpl bags of soil and store in indoors if you have a small bit of room and most good totesa will stack even with soil in it.only one on top of the other unless you got special containers or something.but with those few things you'll be able to rework and store your used soil and compost it between grows and have a final mixed product and pull from that bin.

OR,buy small bag(s) or the tlo soils place or kind soil and start small.either way it's all the same just varies in methodology and size of grow really. coco coir,a plain organic soil like Dr earth or similar aint gotta be super awesome and the bag or packs of soil and some plain seedling mix might help too and thats all you need and clean water is ideal. no chlorine or Chloramines either.

 

[NugPufr]

thank you for all the information you have given me. Out of all the stuff I think I will use something like this http://drearth.net/products/organic-soils/home-grown-potting-soil/. My only question is if I use this is will I be able to put my seeds directly into this once I put it in the pots?