Hey gk what's up? So I think I am going to move to soil/organic and I just had a few basic questions I want to clarify 1. After I make my organic soil mix, done properly. Will this feed them through the veg cycle? Aside from water obvious or should I be giving them organic tea all the way through veg? 2. Will the organic tea done properly at a self made brewing station be enough nutrients to flower healthy and produce a max yield or am I supposed to use an organic bloom booster with it? Ty -
Depends. It's different when you're amending your own soil. Some people have great results feeding straight water through the whole cycle if they get enough "juice in the battery." More folk seem to need to recharge partway through though. The mini cab I designed for myself but have yet to use is intended a straight water until harvest system. I'll be posting the results as soon as I test it, but I think I found a caregiver so it may be a good while before I can show the results of my water only experiments. (I will be adding molasses, but that doesn't really count ) As far as supplemental nutes, there are a lot of ways to go about that. Top feeding, ACTs, or store bought nutes will all work. They work differently but any method will do the trick if you figure it out well enough. Top feeding's hardest to dial but also the least maintenance. If you're amending the soil you plant in with pretty well any of the more standard dry amendment mixes, you shouldn't need to start adding teas or fertilizers until early to mid flowering depending on how long you veg for.
Ty sir for the info, I have done many hydro systems for the last 8-10yrs but recently I just lost 12 expensive feminized seeds due to are local water supply, in this house I bought 2 yrs ago I haven't needed to purchase an R/O system because its always been within reasonable quality, how ever we just recently a few weeks back had a ecoli infection in the water and my seedling were just sprouted... The ecoli turned into a major brownish (shit looking I swear) fungi infection. I dismantled my Dwc 8site system and bleached and sanitized and cleaned all components, it's been 2 weeks they made no progress so I had to pull the plug waiting the seeds and all the juice to power my room for about a month.... I've always been a hydro guy .... But I think I wanna go organic! I don't know I'm just pissed right now about my last crop. What do u guys think?
I made the move from hydro to organic soil with my last round mainly because of heat issues. My yields were bigger in hydro, but I'm not really a grow for dough guy so thats not important. The flavor and aroma of organic is out of this world and you know youre not smoking any chemicals. I'm using aerated microbial tea that I brew and thats it. Water, water, feed is my schedule. Give it a try.
If you're on the fence but have already bought and dialed in an RDWC system you may as well spend the extra $300 on a nice RO filter and keep working with what you have. Switching to organic will have a learning curve attached and it'll be really hard to get even close to the numbers you can in a fully dialed in RDWC. That's my vote anyway. There are pros and cons to either system. If you just want to try something new or are interested in a growing style that has a bit more buffer against environmental fluctuations and user error that it might be worth buying some drip stakes and smart pots. That part's totally up to you.
