Mikeygrows

@GrowBeforeHoe, I hope so that's the plan

@GrowBeforeHoe, thanks for the love going to be a fun grow. Setting up my next tent this week the cycle is just getting started

Healthy plants and nice grow setup with the big fabric pots and the organic soil. Keep growing 👍🏻💚

Looking good

@Mikeygrows, well than welcome! It's a great community. Honestly havent met a single troll/a$#hole on here yet. Only great people trying to help out fellow growers. Been a part of some toxic communities so this is by far my favorite. I'll be following your grows as well.

@Denzul, yeah man just joined the community, ill keep an eye on your grows :D

@Mikeygrows, thanks man, glad we cleared it up. Respect on standing up for the dude. Thanks for trying to keep the platform civil. Also providing ots of great information to this guy. Solid dude for the community. Keep it up.

@Denzul, word I thought you were laughing at the guy was sticking up for the dude..GL brotha

@donnie700, I wrote up this example soil recipe for someone else earlier ill share it with you. This is a basic soil recipe: To make 15 gallons of soil (1/3) 5 gallons- compost/wormcastings (1/3) 5 gallons- coco coir and or peat moss (1/3) 5 gallons- aeration (perlite or popped glass) This right here will be the bulk of your soil, now you need to add your nutrients Some simple math 1 cubic foot = ~7.5 gallons---->15 gallons = 2 cubic feet Add two cups per cubic foot of lime or calcium to your soil, for this example would be 4 cups now in a 1:1 ratio mix your nutrients in a bucket EXAMPLE (fish meal, kelp meal, neam meal, crab meal) You would mix 1 cup all of those nutrients in a bucket. After you mix them together, add ~1 cup of the mix per cubic foot to your soil. For this example you would add two cups of the mix into your soil. Blend all of these ingredients together thoroughly on a tarp. Add water to it or even better compost tea as you are mixing. After finished mixing and getting it wet, your soil is almost complete. you should allow 3-4 weeks for your soil to "cook". This means letting the micro-organisms multiply and begin to break down the nutrients and organic matter. After 4 weeks there will be sufficient nutrients available for plants to immediately use. Once your plant is introduced the soil food web will be complete and everything should thrive. This is a water only soil recipe, compost tea and clean water free of chloramine is all you need to get all the way to harvest. Books: Teaming with microbes, teaming with fungi & teaming with nutrients Author of these is very smart avid gardener and cannabis advocate. If you want to understand how to grow not just pot but anything, these books will teach you how to understand soil and how it funcions. Podcasts: Cannabis cultivation & science podcast with Tad Hussey and Shaping Fire with Shango los. Both of these guys interview really smart and interesting people. You can learn a lot from listening to their conversations GL happy growing

ok, its a good start but you need some more nutrients in your soil. This is more than likely why the plants are growing so slow. Id suggest not to use that black and gold bag soil. Use coco coir and peat moss as a substitute for the bulk of soil. the compost and worm castings are good. i read what is in the vegan mix and its all good but your going to want more for nutrients than just that. I personally like to use a wide variety of organic slow release nutrients for a living soil, maybe have something quicker release for nitrogen so your young plants get a quicker start. Fish meal, bone meal, kelp meal, blood meal, humic acids, shrimp meal, crap meal. The more variety the better in my opinion. Also very important is to add some lime and rock dust to your soil. the rock dust and lime is critical to allow for your nutrients to become unlocked my micro organisms and provide you with your trace minerals. There are many sources for Calcium i like to use oyster shell powder. Oh and very very important mycohorrizal fungi!! Use this when you plant your seed and whenever you transplant, rub it on the roots and in the hole you place plant in. It must come in physical contact with the roots. This is a basic soil recipe: To make 15 gallons of soil (1/3) 5 gallons- compost/wormcastings (1/3) 5 gallons- coco coir and or peat moss (1/3) 5 gallons- aeration (perlite or popped glass) This right here will be the bulk of your soil, now you need to add your nutrients Some simple math 1 cubic foot = ~7.5 gallons---->15 gallons = 2 cubic feet Add two cups per cubic foot of lime or calcium to your soil, for this example would be 4 cups now in a 1:1 ratio mix your nutrients in a bucket EXAMPLE (fish meal, kelp meal, neam meal, crab meal) You would mix 1 cup all of those nutrients in a bucket. After you mix them together, add ~1 cup of the mix per cubic foot to your soil. For this example you would add two cups of the mix into your soil. Blend all of these ingredients together thoroughly on a tarp. Add water to it or even better compost tea as you are mixing. After finished mixing and getting it wet, your soil is almost complete. you should allow 3-4 weeks for your soil to "cook". This means letting the micro-organisms multiply and begin to break down the nutrients and organic matter. After 4 weeks there will be sufficient nutrients available for plants to immediately use. Once your plant is introduced the soil food web will be complete and everything should thrive. This is a water only soil recipe, compost tea and clean water free of chloramine is all you need to get all the way to harvest

@Denzul, way to mock someone and not be helpful. why dont you suggest some watered down nutrients that your using lol...

@donnie700, great thats a start to helping you get to where you want to be. I just looked up whats in fox farm happy frog. Seems like its good stuff, compost and beneficial microbes, but this is just one part of a soil. It is labeled as a mulch so if your using this as your soil entirely im not surprised your plants look like they do. Bat guano is high in nitrogen and has some calcium phosphorus, microbial activity, all good stuff but like i said before but it is just one part of the whole system. If your willing to learn I can lead you to proper soil recipes, and information to help you with your soil. btw I dont want to come off as saying what your doing is wrong just trying to help you out, I have a degree in horticulture and soil is my passion. 😎

@donnie700, Its hard to say specifically what to look for to tell if your ppm is too high or low but common things like leaf curl, color of your leaves, rate of growth...I make a living soil and I never have to feed my plants check pH or ppm (unless I see a problem). everything the plant will ever need is in the soil and I create a environment for microbes to thrive, which in turn feeds the plant. This is how nature does it. From seed to flower all I do is water and use compost tea every once in awhile. Ussually when people think they dont have enough nutrients it is actually the opposite. Too many nutrients will cause them to become "locked" . Depending on whats in your soil there is only so much space for nutrients CEC (cation exchange capacity). I would take bulbis suggestions, maybe use a compost tea and top dress some worm castings. What kind of nutrients did you use that you said you over did? are you using bag soil?