Re: BID 6.0 Featuring: TopLED - Coco High Brix - JDL - Highly Mineralized Myko Madnes
Hi Bid,
Fisrst off much respect to you and your grows.
I am living down in oz in a very grower unfriendly area and supply's are extremely difficult to procure (to visit a hydro store I would have to drive 3 hours and get on a plane, and I don't think I would be around very long if my bags were searched at the airport after that visit....) so I am looking at bulk buying less incriminating products and attempting to "build" my own soil.
I have access to canna coco ( friend of mine buys it by the truck load then disappears out bush for months at a time) and a very high quality organic potting mix but the mix just doesn't work well with my... Tomatoes..
I've have read through all your journals several times in an attempt to avoid my first post being a question asked constantly but would you be so kind as to point me in the direction of your currant mix? Every time I find a recipe a page or two later you've made changes, improvements, ect.
I know it's a lot of trial and error and am not looking for a one mix does all more of a good base and how you deal with issues as they arise, eg in hydro cal deficiency can be as simpy as a couple ml of cal-mag, how would you combat this with your soil mixes?
Also any links you may have lying around from your own research would be invaluable, at the moment I must have over 300 sites bookmarked it is just so hard to read 10 000 words to find the 100 I'm looking for on my phone (out in the boonies here not net for the house unless your a millionaire lol)
Thanks in advance for your time
Yogi
( yeah my parents loved me aye
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Well hello there welcome to my journal & 420mag a good choice they work hard to protect us,and is the Mecca of all things cannabis!
So ya wanna grow some stealth organic "tomatoes" well I shall do my best to get you off into a good direction, I have a thread dedicated to Coco growing link in my signature, Coco is imho the best medium it can grow nearly as fast as hydro,can be treated like soil, you can do a passive run to waste hydro with about any hydro nutes on the market, one caveat with Coco is it needs some Calmag of it's own before it let's the maters have any,there are many ways to do this, the first thing I used was a bag of this
At a rate of 1 tsp per 2liter hempy,should have been 2tsp,I got some def in flower, and my mix was cheap fleabay Coco & pearlite bout 50/50,it worked and I still add some to every batch,I used "sly fox farms" trio,(GB,BB,tb) till I got some 2 part bpn much better
Anyway now I add so much CA in various form I don't worry about the Calmag need, but you can simply add a teaspoon or 2 Epsom salt & grind up a calcium pill to a gallon of water,and Drench the Coco
Yes my mixes change all the time but if you wanna know what my base mix is then
1 5 kilo block of Coco, washed till IM posses of at washing it,(I always wash no matter what the label says)
Then I add the must haves first
4-5 cups AZOMITE
1 big bag wormcastings 20lbs at least (I refill the wormgold bag with home made castings ) or buy a bag if need be
Pearlite about 10-20% of the mix depending on how fine the Coco is,finer gets more,(I like the super chunky if I can find it)
Pearlite in not absolutely nesessary unless the Coco is superfine pith
2cups kelloggs veggie nutes
And mykos lots of mykos, bpn root magic is awesome, and now I've found something even better (yes I did say that)
From T&J industries "natures own soil life & activator" get u sum. That stuff is so potent I have had it growing white fuzzies on the outside of my smartpots! One 10 dollar bag makes 40 gal tea but I cut it further to make 80gal and it's plenty strong at that dilution
I drench the Coco with the tea,and cover it and let it "cook" for a minimum of 2 weeks but the longer the better 3 months is my preferred time hell a year would be nice! But not realistic, and I average 4-5 weeks
That's the basic Coco recipe and will grow good to the end for the most part some strains of "tomato" like more food than others and you will likely want to add some boost at the end some tea with bonemeal & molasses is good,
And how long you veg,size of pots etc all play a factor in how long you can go without needing something, they will need tea at least once a week I give tea at most waterings,plain water every few ,
Now that's my basic minimum recipe
Now what the plants are in right now,, all the above with the following,decrease kelloggs to 1 cup
Add 3tbps bloodmeal,3tbps bonemeal,
1/2 cup of these,calcium carbonate,soft rock phosphate,gypsum ,diatomaceous earth.
1 cup composted old dried out chicken poop,,
4-5 cups mushroom compost
1gal sunshine advanced #4 soilless mix
1gal earth juice Amazon bloom soil
1 tsp natures own soil life & activator DRY
and to the tea I drench with first I add 2 tbps bpn dark matter humate tea,2 tsp bpn root magic,50ml bpn organic farmers pride "micro",50ml bpn vita blue b vitamins, 10 drops superthrive,2tbps organic Blackstrap molasses, 1 tsp yucca extract,1tsp energy 1tsp power up(ask curso where those 2 r from) and 1/2 cup kelloggs nutes, I bubble that with pure oxygen at a rate of 6 liters per min,(I have an o2 concentrator )for a few hours till it has a foot tall foam hat!
Then drench the Coco/soil blend and cook 1 month min
That is my exact problem with soil, when thing start to go wrong I "fix" it then fix it again... Then maybe again by which time I've caused more problems than I started with.
Love hydro and how quickly problems can be rectified, I just need to sit back and not hover over them waiting for something spectacular to happen
, that's when you go do research at as many organic & high brix websites you can find! *wink*
Thats what I did too. I started out with FFOF mixed with perlite, coco, and worm castings and started feeding full strength nutes almost right away and more often than I should have even if it wasnt too soon. That led to problems I tried to self diagnose and others tried to help me with but nothing worked and I eventually started over and still had some problems but not as bad then I lost everything to mites.
Ive started fresh again using the same soil I started with but that had sat for a while and I didnt feed anything for 2 months, now I have the best lookin plants I ever have in 4 years and I started out in Perlite/Vermiculite Hempys with GH 3 part.
Everyone always says to listen to the plants and I think Im finally starting to hear them.
you let the soil cook and balance out now all the stuff in there is ready for your plants to suck up!
Now I see why you grow it often. 
but thanks a lot, i will have to look into it. the only trouble is trying to find this all here and the German for all these different things etc. hmm going to be interesting if i can get my hands on it all. Id love not to have to flush and i really want to go organic. I had a look at the Biocanna line that they got now its pretty much a 3 part 1 for veg and then the 1 bloom and one booster. But having everything needed in the soil just seems to make more sense then adding things to the water. Jons also got some awesome autos going on with that self release stuff that also sounds interesting. Thing is i need to find better pots i was thinking of going with either smart pots or airpots. as currently the pots i got the soil and the side of the pot separate too much and water sometimes just rushes down the inside of the pot and not doing much with the soil. But also those other pots do a far better job at getting air to the roots so dono which to go for.
sorry getting excited about doing this for the next grow.
just wanted to welcome you to the community, also you ask some very good question that im also interested in. 
