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@DirtBox, my wife mixed her own "super soil". She used some standard soil from discounter and mixed it with mature compost (from last year) from our own garden. The lower third of the pots was mostly pure compost and it got lighter the way up with the top third being a 30/70 mix. That's all. It seems this soil contained sufficient nutrients for the whole plants life. She has been a botanist 30 years ago and says that cannabis does not need really many nutrients and many people are spoiling their harvest by using too many nutrients and it is much safer to go without all this stuff. Even the term "nutrient" is misleading according to her. The only real nutrient a plant needs is LIGHT. Everything else should be considered as vitamins and it does not make sense to add too much of it. Initially I did not believe her, but when looking at the yield I have to confess she seems to be right 😏 She was also using way less water than most other growers I have checked. She does not want any runoff as this would flush the good stuff from the soil. This all only applies when growing in soil of course. A real master will probably use hydroponics and there you need to control every little detail. But with our first grow we wanted to keep everything as simply as possible. If there are too many variables, you cannot learn from your mistakes because you will never know what was wrong.

@@Buddha, I'd be interested in your organic grow with no fertilizer. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. There had to be npk and micro nutrients in the soil to grow the plants and to me this is regarded as fertilizers. care to elaborate? Were you using a bought complete soil mix or creating your own organic medium.

@Hawkbo, thanks for taking the time to answer a rookie's question! I certainly can rule out nutrients as this was an all organic grow with no fertilizers at all. But heat definitely was an issue as we had temperatures of 29°C to 30°C for several weeks. Humidity was ok however, always in the range of 40% to 50%. Drying definitely was too fast as we had to do it in the grow room with the high temperatures, so it took only 4 or 5 days. While we have a perfect room in our basement (21°C and 50% RH), the smell was not acceptable; we tried it and after 20 minutes the whole house was stinking, so we had to go back to the grow room (the country I'm living in is run by ethanol drinkers). Anyway, out of curiosity I vaped a little bit of the stinking stuff last night and was pleasantly surprised: Not only had the smell improved drastically in just one day, the taste was really good, almost like mint. And the effect also was quite good given that it has been cured for only some days. So I'm confident everything will be fine two or three weeks from now. Thanks again and I'm looking forward to watching more art from you 😉

@Hawkbo, that's really smart since my bbk dont really smell I'm about to take off the filter!

@CRiSPrGrow,U know me im a AC cranked up type of mfer hahaha🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣

@CRiSPrGrow,U got the right man with HAWK he wont steer u wrong my top grower on here personally✌️✌️👍👍

@Hawkbo, Wow that’s a great deal. You’ve been super helpful, thank you for taking the time

@PM_ME_YOUR_TREES, It would depend on the price difference and whether or not you care that much about saving a few extra bucks in electricity. I think they ssid the v2s only consume 480w but give you the same coverage and the 1s are somewhere around 520w depending on the driver you use. @timbergrowlights on Instagram just dropped pretty much and identical fixture to the 550 fully assembled for around 700 that uses the same Samsung chips as the v2s maybe that would be your best option cuz if you dont have the tools and hardware to build one it might be like a $50 difference in price overall. Spectrum would depend on what you want to use it for veg or bloom. If you going full bloom 2700k would be my preference, if your going for veg only 4000k if you want to be able to use them for both 3000k or 3500k. If your growing autos only and want to use them for both 3000k because you'll spend more time in bloom than veg. But my 2700k grows my seedlings and young ones perfectly so I dont really see the big deal about it tbh

@Hawkbo, Thanks, lastly, do you think the v2’s are worth as much extra $ as they are? I’m looking to get a couple 550s, should I get different spectrum for both? I haven’t decided on 2700, 3000, 3500, 4000+ etc

@CRiSPrGrow, thank you man goodluck hope it helps cheers

@Hawkbo, these here convos is why you're recognised as one of the best mentors in this community man, thanks for being an all round classy gentleman man ! cheers !

@CRiSPrGrow, yes absolutely exhaust is always on no matter what unless I'm doing a foliar spray

@CRiSPrGrow, crank light during co2 with exhaust running