General Cultivation Q&A

This is yet one more Soil Mixing tutorial. This one is going to focus on making a batch in the city while keeping it neat and tidy. First we use a tarp and a sheet of plywood under so the shovel will slide easily as we mix and scoop. This was created over 35 years of soil growing and blows away any method I have tried. Hydro growers that swap over never switch back to water. Here is the recipe to make this concentrate! You cannot grow plants directly in this super concentrate! 8 Bags Roots soil or equivalent high quality supped up grow soil 25 pounds Pure Worm Castings ½ cup Azomite trace minerals 2/3 Cup Sweet Lime IE Dolomite 1 Kilo Bone meal / IE 5 Pounds 1 Kilo Bl…

Hey guys. I just received Afghani #1 seeds and excited to start my first hydro grow. These seeds are regular, not feminized. Should I just stick them straight into my perlite/verm mix and soak with pH adjusted water? Or should I germinate them first with wet paper towel or other method? Should I germinate just 4 seeds for now or germinate all 10? Anything else I should be aware of for starters? FYI, I have grown before about 10 years ago in soil (first time hydro) so I understand a small bit about growing but I just want to make sure so I don't mess this up.

I have only just started using the Bunning's Brick Coco. Previous to this I have always used pre buffered Coco. This is what I started to do with the Brick Coco and 7 weeks in I really cant tell the difference between the $35 Bag of Canna Coco i have used for the last 10 years and the $2 Brick Stuff I'm using now. 1. Put the Bricks in a large pot with drain holes and pour 2 Jugs of Boiling Water to make it expand for about 10 minutes. 2. I flood it with Tap water (0.25 EC) around 4 or 5 times until the run off becomes clear. I don't bother getting the PH of the water right. I estimate I put through around 20 liters of water to get to this point. 3. I mix up 2 m…

Hey guys. I'm a bit confused as to which form of Canna I should get. I'll just be growing in soil, using normal water, indoor, hopefully using just the canna to feed them (and some PK13-14 later) Initially I thought the Terra would be the right choice but after reading the Canna site I'm thinkint the Substra... but everyone here seems to say the substra is for rockwool etc not ordinary soil Any thoughts?

hey guys so i'm setting up a grow tent and am gonna throw in some auto flowers with soil. just wondering what the basic nutrients i would need are? preferably stuff I can get from bunnings or local flower power or something thanks in advance

Hi all, new member here and fist time grower. I've picked up a bedside cabinet to make it a stealth grow box in my room. I've bought some osmacote seedling mix and 6x24w Philips cool white CFL bulbs and some festoon light fittings. I have hollowed out the inside and plan to make an oven rack type system on the sides so I can move the lights up and down on racks. I have some plywood that was a shelf in there and is the right width, would 6x24w CFL lamps produce too much heat to have then mounted close to the plywood shelf? I was going to line the inside with a reflective car windscreen cover and mount the lights horizontally with a mirror above them, would an ac…