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Topping
weeks 18
Soil
Grow medium
Perlite
Grow medium
Vermiculite
Grow medium
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Grow medium
45.4249 l
Pot Size
Grow Conditions
Week 8
Vegetation
45.72
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GDub51 GDub51
3 years ago
Long story short 53 seeds for 8 spouts all drown after transplant to final where soil will not dry out no matter how much perlite, vermiculite and pumice is added. Worst result by far from any year. Enough to make me quit. I know what I'm doing, I'm just cursed it seems. Thanks to any who gave input to me. Good luck. I'm out of it. A joyous hobby has become a soul draining chore. I'm done with it.
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Grow Questions
GDub51
GDub51started grow question 3 years ago
Potting soil mix for cannabis. I'm having extreme drainage problems with my usual soil mix this year. 60% Ocean Forest with 40% perlite/pumice watered once in March is still wet. Plants stunted, worthless. Three tries with new mixes all failed. No time but for autos now.
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GrowCN
GrowCNanswered grow question 3 years ago
I use 3 parts Ocean Forest to 1 part pearlite and have great drainage and your soil looks about like mine. When I water I will apply a thin layer to the soil surface. It stays on top and does not soak in immediately but within a minute it soaks in and wets the soil. After that it accepts water almost as fast as I can pour it on.
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Burmese
Burmeseanswered grow question 3 years ago
Hi there, IMO if you want a good drainage pot, go 1:1:1 ratio for soil,coco,perlite.And If you want a best drainage go 70/30 coco/perlite mix.I sometimes get problems with poor drainage ,especially when I want to grow orgainically with dry organic amendments.Too much dried organic matters make the soil hard and difficult for water penetration.BTW I always put marble stone at the bottom of the pot for extra good drainage.Good luck and happy growing... ✌️
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smoke24
smoke24answered grow question 3 years ago
Use fabric pots.
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Cannabeast40
Cannabeast40week 0
Sorry to hear about a bad start, but glad you are on your way now 🙌 Happy growing & good luck🙏😊
Vincent_Van_Grogh
Vincent_Van_Groghweek 0
Sad to hear about the germ rate man! Hope it gets better! Love that you start exactly at spring solstice! Mar 21! Sending the best of vibes to you, your plant/s, and the mutual growth you will have together! 🌱
homerjgangia
homerjgangiaweek 0
Good luck with your grow mate!💪💪
Lacrima
Lacrimaweek 0
Happy Growing ! 😊💪
deFharo
deFharoweek 18
Fantastic garden. Good luck!! ✌️
spyder
spyderweek 0
lookin' good,,,good luck with the grow,,,enjoy.
GDub51
GDub51week 7
Gorilla Bomb drooping due to substrate being too dense. I chopped up the old soil with roots too find the added bulk of leftover roots and rhizomes made it too dense. I waited two weeks without adding any water to see if they would dry out. NOPE, so I mixed up some newly aeriated soil with LOTS of perlite, lava rock and made a bed of rocks and cactus mix for the bottom to increase drainage and air circulation. More nutrients were added of the same used before. Today these are happy as clams and reaching for the sky in anticipation of the sun coming out later. I'm so glad I decided to transplant again into better draining soil. It serves to remind us that if we are adept at transplanting, then if conditions warrant, by all means DO IT. I also sprinkled a fresh dusting of mycorrhizae into each hole before planting and have applied silicone foliar for stem strength. (High winds a problem here and silicone has demonstrated significantly stronger stems. Notice the amount of perlite showing in the pics was not nearly enough for the newly dense recycled/recharged soil. I upped the amount to fully one third of total bulk. Surface had been bone dry so the importance of using a deep soil moisture prod is clearly demonstrated. The finger test is antiquated.
Trumptight420
Trumptight420
@GDub51, Good luck with your experience treat them right and they will return the favor💪
Greenwolvesfarmer
Greenwolvesfarmerweek 8
Uuufff ! Todo lo mejor para ellas . Se le desea buen proceso
Taito
Taitoweek 7
Me alegro todo siga hacia adelante 😏
Taito
Taitoweek 0
Seguro que mejora el porcentaje el siguiente año. Buena suerte con el cultivo compañero 💪
Trixx
Trixxweek 18
Good luck and happy growing 🙏
DoDrugs420
DoDrugs420week 18
You rock that Gorilla Bomb i love it.
TeknoRanger
TeknoRangerweek 18
Happy Growing ! 😊💪
Ketamine
Ketamineweek 18
Put about 30 1/2 inch holes in the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket . yeah you need HOLES in the bottom.
ThePassionForWeed420
ThePassionForWeed420week 18
Buona coltivazione e felice crescita amico 👏 👏
GDub51
GDub51week 18
Nothing has helped my soil breath for some reason this year using the same mix as always. I decided to go radicle and gave them a H202 watering today (1/3) to get some oxygen down into the roots. I may or may not try to re-introduce mycorrhizae. I'm not sure at this late stage if it will make any difference. I decided to try since they are staying green at the top. Stunted yes but maybe something and I started an auto Bruce Banner but it doesn't like something, showing cupping/canoe leaves even tho I didn't add any supplements to this soil and it's outside so it can't be too much light. Oh, well, my shoulder is better today at least.
GDub51
GDub51week 0
Thank you for your encouragement, however nothing I do helps my grow. It's all dying off as too wet and I can't do anything about it. When these die off I'm out of this hobby. I can't seem to do it after 7 years trying I never produced anything near what I could buy and the failures kept mounting instead of improving. Its become too much heartbreak for so much effort. Thousands of hours and thousands of dollars later in retrospect it was a fun experiment that ultimately failed. Mediocre results never matched the amount of study, effort and expense. Better luck to the rest of you!