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I have put, and still put seedling in MG soil, and use either MG or FFOF. Whatever MY bank allows. FYI My Seedlings in MG, all 3-3 Sprouted, and now are doing great! But that is just my luck. What nutes are you using? I use FF nutes, and Noticed that when I feed them That the PH goes up a lot faster, than when its in FFOF.
I used MG Moisture control for my first grow and had no problems.
I switched after reading all the posts and now I have PH issues.
MG is not a problem if you add the perlite like most are saying and monitor your PH. No nutes for seedlings and all should work fine. Personal preference I guess.
My nute mix for veg was, 3 tbls hydrogen peroxide, 2 tbls backstrap mollasses, 1 tbls apple cider vinagar, 2 tbls FF grow big first 4 weeks, 2tbls FF big bloom starting week 5 to current. per gallon of water. Next watering I am changing to FF tiger bloom till harvest.
Well, I am glad to see some people got on their soap box, but really, crazy is the one who needed help.
An answer to his/her question is: Go with MG...BASICALLY because he has no other choice. If you see the places he has available to him, Lowes, etc., MG is his/her only real option. I'm a noob and had a hydroponic store in my area for my soil needs. He/she doesn't have that option.
So, go with MG, if you add nuts, be careful and don't over due it.
But for me, I got fox farm, added some perlite and away I went. With my soil I will know that my plant is dying from my actions and not some time released bullshit that MG loves. I'm not doubting MG, I am sure it does its job, but as far as a complete noob goes, the noob (ME!!) needs to learn how to use nuts and see the plants reactions to the growers actions, not the soils.
Now, everyone, I'm packing a bowl right now....everyone puff puff passs son! :joint1:
LOL the confessions of MG
I wish I had saved the pics from the end of my Moisture Control MG grow. I thought it worked fine for me. I ended up with 36 oz dry from 9 plants under a 1000k hps. The only other nutes I used was GH Bloom. I'm just now starting a new grow and will try Stinky's recipe and see if I can see a difference. These pics were from day 38 of flower after a 4 week veg from seed under flouros. I must have deleted the rest of the pics by accident.
Good growing all.
dsm711... if it ain't broke... :D
That's a hella nice grow. I wish you had finish pics!!! Aww.
Hey all, just looking for some insight. I have a buddy that can't take the waiting to see if his soil grow is going to be ok. He mixed his own soil kind of, it was a bag of some very good ph'd soil of some kind with the stuff already in it that helps drainage and texture. Anyway, he also got some bat guano 10-3-5 and 5% of the N is water soluable, which means that 5% is not. Also some bonemeal 0-22-0 and sul po mag that is something-something-something higher number. He did use less than the directions said per gallon of soil, he put about 18 tblspns of bat guana, 16 of bonemeal, and 10 or so of the sul-po-mag. Mixed it real well, he used red lava rocks in the bottom of the pots for drainage. Question, are his plants gonna die soon? He just re-potted them from their 4 inch pots to their 6 or 8 inch pots. They have been popped from seed for about 2 weeks, will his soil kill them. He is also going to use liquid karma for watering, should that be used everytime, or alternated. Sorry getting to be off the soil topic. Any feedback would be appreciated.
That's a LOT of fertilizer for such young plants. Hell, that's a lot of fertilizer for ANY plant.
Yes. That is likely to kill them.
Damn, son. Get them out of that hot stuff and unless you want to go fully-organic, don't do soil amendments on your first grow. You get problems that are hard to fix by flushing when you start using solids in your dirt.
So you would recommend flushing. How does he get nutrients to his plants? Just by mixing them in the water? He has some of the Botanicare Pure Blend Pro for growth and flowering. Would you recommend just using the regular soil with nothing added and just water per half the instructions on the bottle?