Quote Originally Posted by Dan K.
I am using some generic soil mix from osh with 3/4 soil, 1/4 perlite and a pinch of dolimitic lime. Next time, I'm going to do closer to 50/50 cause I'm having a lot of problems with compaction right now. I'm feeding them Fox Farms Grow Big at around 6-7cc/gal right now, Liquid Karma about 5cc/gal, and Super-Thrive B1 (8cc/gal every other watering). Every third watering is just R/O H20, no nutes. At about 3 weeks I think I shocked a lot of my plants, some of them definitely had nutrient burn and they began growing 1 and 3-pronged leaves and stunted growth, so that delayed them a bit, noobie mistake, but they've recovered nicely and everything looks beautiful now. I really did do a lot of research before this, I'm hoping for 2 lbs. total harvest, that's about 2 oz's/plant, so I want to veg them as long as possible. Currently I'm planning to flower them anywhere between Dec. 10th - Christmas, but I'll just have to see, really it'll happen when 75% ofy screen is full.

Thanks for all your compliments, I'll try and update the pictures a little more often, also if you want any pictures of anything taken let me know.

Your plants look beautiful!! :rasta: That one with 4 tops is a monster :thumbsup:
Haha, the similarities between us noobs is crazy. For our final transplant, we also used 3/4 generic organic soil mixed with 1/4 perlite with some dolomitic lime mixed in as well. And we fed grow big and big bloom & superthrive, every other watering, except the superthrive which was every watering.

I assume when you say you're having problems with compaction, you are talking about when you try to water it doesn't want to go right in and kinda pool up where the dirt has hardened? I had that problem, where the soil kinda bricked up and it wouldn't get wet under the surface and the water would just run down the sides of the pot instead of absorbing.

If thats the problem, try adding a dash of liquid dish soap into your water before watering, it acts as a wetting agent which nullifies the surface tension of the water, keeping it from beading up, and making it absorb more readily into soil. It also keeps any splashed up water from beading up on the leaves.

Dish soap is also used as an emulsifying agent & wetting agent when mixing up some neem oil to spray on. It allows the neem oil to mix with water, since you know water and oil don't mix, as well as making the leaves get nice and evenly wet, instead of it beading up and running off. Just a nice little trick i picked up somewhere.