JJs Diary my 2nd Grow

My question is, what did you use to over-fertilize – mineral or organic? I'm guessing mineral, since it's easier to overdo it. It's always better not to add the solution to dry substrate; it's better to moisten it a bit beforehand, then fertilize afterward. Maybe do it every 2-3 days and see how it develops. Drainage is also important; I've had good results using Drain Master to check pH levels. The substrate itself should also be suitable. Choose strains that are more forgiving at the beginning. Good luck!

Eventually, you'll need nutrients. Shit ton of variables invovled in this question that can't all be covered. it's like learnign to ride a bike. Each soil you use will come with slightly different levels of nutrients across the board... as you re-use one you'll learn what needs to be added over time - it may not be exactly the same, but should be similar relative to any "1" soil product or concoction you mix together in a consistent way. Always good to take notes, refine and implement a better plan next time... eventually you fine-tune it to work well. often, soils need more perlite or simialr drainage amendment added. Along with whatever might come with it, you want about 50% of volume to be perlite or similar. I'd recommend vermiculite, but people are more familiar with perlite and it's used here in a generic way. This also reduces how "hot" the soil is, too. Consider anything you added to the volume that doesn't add nutrients to the equation. i feel like i typed this out in another answer recently, so ignore if so. Think i deleted it before posting, but... if you want to hit the easy button and be able to have a set of instructions to follow with fewer maybes and unknowns, use a soilless growing method. When you control all the nutritional inputs, it takes a lot of the guesswork out. There are advantages to soil growing, so in either case you can learn to get consistently good results, but soilless definitely has a shorter learning curve with some good guidance to start. cocoforcannabis.com - guides, articles and dr. photon's corner. Even if growing in soil, there's lots of good infor that will translate or be useful is a less literal way for a soil context, too. e.g. all the training and other stuff is the same. Irrigating soil is slightly different but the gist of what is going on is universal - i.e. don't want to partially water.