organic recipe

[NugPufr]

I am looking to grow maybe 3 autoflowers from seed using organic materials. I have seen many different recipes that people have used to grow their plants. I will probably use 3 or 5 gallon buckets for each plant and I was wondering how much soil I should use for each pot? I was wondering if anyone had a recipe for one bucket?

 

[Jraven]

Check out the organic section here, its awesome. 3 gallon is probably a good minimum, and there may be a recipe based on a single bag of potting soil or something.

 

[thetreeman]

Im assuming you are a newb, if thats the case I strongly suggest growing in ground instead of in buckets. This might not work in some areas, but in most it will. Depending how large your plants get, and your climate, caring for bucket plants can be a lot of work and your chances of failure are much higher IMO.

 

[trailanimal]

I am looking to grow maybe 3 autoflowers from seed using organic materials. I have seen many different recipes that people have used to grow their plants. I will probably use 3 or 5 gallon buckets for each plant and I was wondering how much soil I should use for each pot? I was wondering if anyone had a recipe for one bucket?

Do you have a garden? If so, your soil is the best start, put in buckets or dig it into earth in a safe spot

 

[G.Leave]

Alternatively find a dense hardwood forest and use the nice black dirt supplied by the dropped leaves as your main supply of dirt(you would have to take the dirt to a nice sunny location). I add maple leaves to my garden every fall and spring and they are a superb addition to local soil.

 

[trailanimal]

Alternatively find a dense hardwood forest and use the nice black dirt supplied by the dropped leaves as your main supply of dirt(you would have to take the dirt to a nice sunny location). I add maple leaves to my garden every fall and spring and they are a superb addition to local soil.

right on about the hardwood forest soil, imagine the farming yield after the forest was cut down, a crying shame this soil wasn't revered for the blessing it is, too bad they didn't know how or care to maintain this gift

 

[G.Leave]

right on about the hardwood forest soil, imagine the farming yield after the forest was cut down, a crying shame this soil wasn't revered for the blessing it is, too bad they didn't know how or care to maintain this gift

I really cannot say enough about hardwood leaf compost. Many of my best guerilla grown plants over a 10 year span were used with leaf compost as a base medium. It doesn't hold enough nutrients to carry a plant through to harvest, but it holds enough to grow very nice healthy plants throughout at least half of the veg state. I have even had very successful plants grown in leaves not even composted, just chopped up with a shovel.
There is little clear cutting in our area, but the areas that it is happening within 2 years it is flooded with saplings, and the process starts all over again, but with tons of small trees instead of fewer big ones. I love how the trees fuel their own growth through nutrients they drop in autumn.