Quote Originally Posted by wowdoughboy
From past experince i do find that soil would be better. But i was thinking about using a 6x6 rockwool at first then when the roots come out i'll transplant them over to a 5gal soil pot. This is so that they can get the fast growth with the rockwool and once their big enough i have the advantage of soil. Would this be fine?
I'm not much of a soil grower, what soil do i use?
I actually DON"T recommend this as I have seen problems with mothers cloned into rockwool, and then potted into soil, where the stem rots off under the rockwool block. This happened to 3 of my mothers. You CAN safely go from rapidrooters to soil, or coco to soil (coco= hydro so you still get explosive initial growth), or just keep them in coco permanently.
Depending on whether you are going to keep the same mothers for over a year or not, coco is good for really old mothers because it's SO easy to flush, and when you need to repot, you can shake it off really easily and relieve rootbound problems.
For a mother that you intend to keep for a shorter amount of time and then start over with a fresh one, I love a mix of composted humus, composted cow manure, and perlite (40% perlite!!!!). It's very nice and pH is stable over time compared to a mix that does not contain humus. mmmm humus... I love that shit spread on pita bread, lol...