How to make super soil for cannabis plants is a conversation that has been happening for generations of dedicated organic farmers. A high-quality super soil or living soil is composed of a plethora of important ingredients, but there is one thing that remains clear, and that is that you have to start with a good foundation. The foundation we are talking about is active fungal and microbial activity. This is what you build a soil to serve, and done correctly, your soil will need few nutrient supplements and will do well with just r/o or rainwater. A healthy super soil is free draining, moisture retentive, high in available, slow-release nutrients, and it is packed with life. Make this blend by combining a store-bought bagged soil or topsoil with a broad range of ingredients. Supplements to your bagged soil should include in correct measure, some aeration mediums which allow for free drainage, but which also hold a little water. Perlite, vermiculite, volcanic rock, pumice and turkey grit are just a few, and you can add them all. Other amendments include, but are not limited to, all-purpose feed, greensand, oyster shells, dolomite lime, blood meal, bone meal, insect frass, powdered gypsum, azomite, humic acid, bat guano, fishmeal, manure, worm castings and, most importantly, mycorrhizae. You need to cook your mix for at least a couple weeks before adding roots, stirring as you go, or you will cook your plants.
The Benefits Of Growing Cannabis In Quality Soil
The benefits of growing cannabis in high quality soil are numerous and so it has been since the dawn of dank. The better the soil, the better the produce, and there is evidence of this everywhere. Choosing soil over hydro is a personal preference and world class weed can be grown either way. However, if you are the type to compost, to reduce, reuse and recycle, soil is stellar. A living soil offers such a nutrient rich environment that you can grow massive plants in tiny pots. The point of a living or super soil is to boost microbial activity around the roots, mimicking the natural world as closely as possible. Healthy microbes mean healthy roots and healthy roots mean healthy shoots. Healthy shoots mean healthy buds and that is the whole point, after all. In cooperation with your lights and ventilation, a super soil will work wonders for your crop, but since these soils are alive, pest control sits high on growers’ priority lists. Sprinkle some food grade diatomaceous earth over the soil surface as a preventative measure against gnats and whitefly. Because we are aiming to boost healthy microbe populations, it is important to feed well bubbled teas, of which recipes abound. When you get it all right, the weed is better, cleaner, needs no flush, you can grow more in a smaller space and the soil can be recycled with just a bit of help.
The Benefits Of Making Your Own Super Soil For Weed Plants
The benefits of making your own super soil for weed plants is that you know exactly what has gone into it and in what measure, and that means you can more closely and accurately manage feeding and top ups, you know how long it needs to cook before planting into it, and you are in a perfect position to recycle it effectively for subsequent use. The latter is a simple equation based on what you started with, what your plant used in the middle and what plants went through in the final feed free push before harvest. Making your own soil from scratch is a safer alternative to buying bagged soil. These are oftentimes home to all sorts of beasties that you don’t want in your garden, the exception being sterilized seed starter. Still, if the seed starter got wet at any point in time during its getting from the factory to your grow space, chances are high it picked something up along the way. Making your own soil is also a great way to learn about what soil is composed of, what plants need in what measure, and learning and tracking all of this will help you make a better soil every time. When you know your medium, you can also tweak the recipe to suit a variety of strains. The list of reasons why it’s wiser to make your own soil go on, so keep digging.
Marijuana Nutrition in Soil
Marijuana plants demand a seemingly unending supply of nutrients, and each separate strain goes through them at different rates. When you build a high-quality living soil, this is not so much of a problem, but when you are running synthetic nutrients, it can become very hard to keep track of what your crop actually needs. This is where we come across all sorts of problems, especially with new growers. Diagnosis issues arise and, though we think we are dealing with one thing, it may be a combination of nutrient issues which need to be addressed. Lots of the time, we deal with one thing and another rears its ugly head, just to leave us in it deeper than when we started. Cannabis needs three types of nutrients, and it needs them available in wide variety. The first is macronutrients. These include nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, and these are displayed on nutrient bottles as NPK. Alongside the macronutrients are micronutrients, such as calcium, magnesium and zinc. Thirdly, cannabis needs what are known trace minerals or elements, such as boron, manganese, iron, copper, chlorine and others. It is imperative that these components are present in the right amounts or cases such as deficiency and overdose, pH issues and others can arise to give you grief. Making a super soil based on The Rev’s TLO recipe is wise, as this is one of the most proven blends that you can make, and it is easy.
How To Avoid Nutrient Burn In Your Cannabis Grow
Of all the ins and outs of what weed needs, nutrient delivery is one of the most important characteristics of cultivating cannabis, no matter who you ask. Nutrients make the difference between a plant that grows and a plant that dies, and they also mean the difference between award winning buds and a stretched out larfy mess. Affecting the right soil recipe is rule number one for nutrient delivery. Manage this and you will only need to feed the microbes in your soil some teas once every couple weeks or month, just to keep the ecosystem happy. However, and in many cases, once our weed starts to take off and the need to amend nutrient counts arises, growers get stuck. Some feed too much nitrogen to begin with, resulting in thick, dark leaves. Maybe the leaf tips curl upward from a lack of magnesium, or they get frilly from potassium issues, and sometimes our issues are not with nutrients at all. Avoiding overdose and nutrient burn in the grow space is simple. The most proven method is to start your feeds at half strength or less. Watch your plants to see how they respond and feed extra as necessary. Remember, you can always add more nitrogen, phosphorus or calcium, but it is incredibly difficult to wash soil free of too much. Something else to bear in mind about washing nutrients out of soil is that cannabis doesn’t like to have wet roots, so avoid nutrient overdose at all costs.
The Best Weed Seeds For Beginners
We know that this can be a lot to take in and that many of you just want to grow the best weed and not worry about it. We get it, and so we have come up with a couple strains from our collection which are proven to be simple for beginners to manage. First and foremost, the autoflower is the simplest strain, no matter what the genetics, and they can go from seed to chop in a one-gallon pot of living soil without the need for extra nutrient top ups. We start with autoflower White Widow seeds because they are proven to be amongst the easiest strains for anyone to grow, they don’t need much love and they are fast. White Widow is among the most famous strains in history and our automatic version is a fan favorite across the board. But people also love photoperiod strains for their sometimes massive delivery, as well as the fact that all stages can be closely monitored and controlled. Black Widow feminized seeds offer growers of all experience levels a stable plant to practice on and the harvest of this strain is often in the hundreds of grams. This seed is also a little resilient to beginner blunders and responds quickly to feeding, so it makes for easy learning. Finally, Blue Dream feminized seeds continue to prove themselves to growers of all types, in all climates and they consistently produce award winning weed that responds quickly to environmental and feeding shifts.
