"Super Soil"

[Eyes on Fire]

instead of DE look to Neem cake and kanja cake together. and frass also,a lil pricey though DE wet/moist in a soil negates most of it properties your looking for for bugs. frass and neem cake into the soil works perfectly.or even just neem cake and kanja cake.

 

[Joe383]

I know you don't want to mix soil but I run only add water on my grows and some strains like my mix and others don't. Its way better if you can mix your soil for your strain. The best strain I have found for this method at least for how I mix and my grow environment is the Red Dwarf from Buddha seeds. I have only read the first page of this post so there is probably a lot I have missed in this post but another thing that helps me is I run at least 1.5 CF of soil per plant or 1 bag of soil per plant. I layer the mix too. Veg in [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG] pot with my veg mix, transplant to [HASHTAG]#15[/HASHTAG] pot with a 50/50 mix veg/bloom layered. Make sure there is no chlorine in your water too. I only run bottled water which requires you to run your calcium a little higher than if you were running city or well water.

 

[Eyes on Fire]

thats what plugging is for really.or larger tiering of pots.but mostly a nice medium strength soil will pick up almost any strain short of them being crazy sensitive or some such. but I run pretty much everything and all strains in the same soil mix. now the plug size or tier cup/pot/whatver is a little taller/larger that'll essentially do the same thing. making the strain stay in a lesser mellower mix for longer as long as its a deep or tall seedling prep.

 

[wxguy]

I may get both soils and do a side by side comparison with same genetics. Now I just need to decide which Mephisto strain to get...LOL.

I have found that interpreting this kind of side-by-side cook-off comparison can be problematic given the natural phenotype variability for any given strain. As an example, I grew four AK-49 plants (my own organic soil recipe, PlatinumLED lights) in one grow with identical conditions and same soil batch. . I even rotated the pots every few days to ensure that the overall light regime was the same for each.

The result: 4 very similar plants? NO WAY. Where were 2 distinct phenotypes, a leggy one with narrowish leaves (I nicknamed it "spear"), and a squat phenotype, much denser in vegetation with thicker, more rounded leaves, which I nicknamed "cabbage". (The structural differences in the phenotypes were apparent by the time the plants were 10 cm tall.) These all had the same identical light and soil regime.

Had I conducted the experiment proposed here (supposedly) identical genetics but with two diff. soils (or also different lights, if you should want) I could have drawn some pretty incorrect conclusions- based on natural genetics- when I may have thought I was testing soils.

I think that to more rigorously test differences in soil performances, one would be well advised to grow three (at least two) identically strained plants in each soil type under identical lighting conditions. I can't do that myself, given room constraints, but it sure sounds fun, and lots of good weed!

Maybe AK-49 is particularly known to be strongly dimorphic, there are probably more "stable" strains better suited to this purpose.

Oh yeah, the AK-49 was the bomb. I got a yield of about 25g per plant for the "spears" (little more zippy) and about 40g per "cabbage". One thing all the plants had in common was an intense- i mean really intense odor, both in growth and in the bud jar. Great taste and serious buzz.

 

[SHRED]

I have found that interpreting this kind of side-by-side cook-off comparison can be problematic given the natural phenotype variability for any given strain. As an example, I grew four AK-49 plants (my own organic soil recipe, PlatinumLED lights) in one grow with identical conditions and same soil batch. . I even rotated the pots every few days to ensure that the overall light regime was the same for each.

The result: 4 very similar plants? NO WAY. Where were 2 distinct phenotypes, a leggy one with narrowish leaves (I nicknamed it "spear"), and a squat phenotype, much denser in vegetation with thicker, more rounded leaves, which I nicknamed "cabbage". (The structural differences in the phenotypes were apparent by the time the plants were 10 cm tall.) These all had the same identical light and soil regime.

Had I conducted the experiment proposed here (supposedly) identical genetics but with two diff. soils (or also different lights, if you should want) I could have drawn some pretty incorrect conclusions- based on natural genetics- when I may have thought I was testing soils.

I think that to more rigorously test differences in soil performances, one would be well advised to grow three (at least two) identically strained plants in each soil type under identical lighting conditions. I can't do that myself, given room constraints, but it sure sounds fun, and lots of good weed!

Maybe AK-49 is particularly known to be strongly dimorphic, there are probably more "stable" strains better suited to this purpose.

Oh yeah, the AK-49 was the bomb. I got a yield of about 25g per plant for the "spears" (little more zippy) and about 40g per "cabbage". One thing all the plants had in common was an intense- i mean really intense odor, both in growth and in the bud jar. Great taste and serious buzz.

I think you are correct. I've been thinking about this and the variables would overwhelm any accurate measure.