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Look for Scotts Seed Starting Potting Soil. You can find it at lowes or home depot. You want potting soil with no nutrients at first. Then I use FoxFarms Ocean Forest soil when I transplant into bigger pots, it is the best soil ever fucking made for pot. Make sure you pick up some perlite too, its only like 3 bucks for a bag, and mix a lot in with your soil, like make it 4 parts soil 1 part perlite or so. Helps with drainage and keeps the soil from compacting, which is important.
The most important thing to remember is you want soil with ABSOLUTELY NO FERTILIZER for starting seeds in. After 2 weeks, its all good, and they can handle their shit and you can move on to soil with nutes in it.
Just a noob question, why cant you start seeds in soil with nutrients?
i was just wondering the same thing coz my last grow attempt i used mg and they were going all right up untill my ex smashed my grow room and plants up. i have now startes again and im useing cammila potting soil now and thats got nutes in and every thing seems fine so far but then i did wait till the tap roots were showing b4 i potted
I heard Pete moss works really well, I picked up enough at loews to last me the winter for $5.99
i made the mistake of planting my seed in soil from the backyard with vegetable soil and nutrients, but it's growing and looks okay
Seeds come prepared with all the nutrients they need for their first two weeks of life, during which they are really fragile and still developing roots. Any additional nutrients could shock the plant or cause nutrient burn. After two weeks, they use up all the nutes they have and you might notice the leaves starting to lighten a little, showing they're running lower on nitrogen if you don't feed them. But wait til its been above ground 14 days before feeding, its better to underfeed a bit than overfeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by MizzouBudz
Peat moss is good to include in your mix, but don't use too much of it. If it's higher than 25% it could make the soil too acidic, and it holds water like crazy which could cause root rot. Definitely don't plant in peat moss alone, mix it with some perlite and sand too for drainage.Quote:
Originally Posted by titan1744