Welcome RheinRover
sorry I'm crap at replying lol, I tend to just like comments unless I've something useful to add
b.real my friend welcome!
Noob thanks for the vid post
Bob glad your back about spreading your humour!
Dr best of luck in your exams my friend!
Well in plant news I'm not happy one bit with the first 3 bubbas going at present. I had non of my usual recycled soil to hand so got some soil sent from Spamazon. Well it was the canna pro and its got some starting nutes in their etc, yet I'm used to my soil with its built up beneficial bacteria. To say these are small and growing shit for autos is an understatement! If people really grow fulltime in this, god I feel sorry for them!
I've grown many an auto and I've ran them under less light at the start than they're presently under. So its the soil for sure....! All 3 are crap and no where near what size I'm used to at this point!
So the moral of the story is this, "build it and they will grow!" Build your soil up folks! Now I don't claim to be a genius at this or organics. I just use bottle nutes and don't try to be a purist. To me its building your soil population with beneficials, whether out a packet or brewed up dissent matter to me! I'll use anything to hand to enrich my soil such as ashes, guano etc. I also always cut it with mainly coco, so my ratio is about 80/20 in Coco's favour!
So yup its a soil but diluted down with coco to the max. Then using any old mycos that are bennies I just blunder along using only RO water,so no,chlorine to kill my bennies off! Then as you reuse the soil over and over you also built the soil up with old broken down roots adding to the mediums structure and ability to hold a good population within the mainly coco blend!
To me this is what's important is keeping it alive at all times, then I just use whatever nutrients I'm testing at present until flushing at the end and then store away whilst moist, charging with more microbes or whatever's to hand. So yep whatever nutes I'm on I always strive to have my soil already jammed and ready to rock!
In a few days or so I've got more of my own mix available so will drop more autos in that and sit back and watch the difference!