Help with meduim for veg?!

[UrbanCultivator]

Hi Guys,

 

Have just germed some Belladonna (Paradise seeds) in some jiffy peat pellets and am preparing a veg medium mix for their first pots. To work with I have: vermiculite, perlite, coir-peat and a yates premium potting mix containing dynamic lifter. I would just like to know your opinions on what would be the best mix for vegging. I am thinking just perlite, vermiculite and coir peat as I know the peat already has some kind of added fertilizer in it. Save the potting mix for final transplant along with the others maybe? Can I get your thoughts. Cheers.

 

=)

 

U.C

[SukonmiSkunk]

for seedlings i use seedraising mix.. in just small cups.. when they get past the seedling stage.. i repot.. if going into a hydroponic medium then youll need to wash all the soil from the roots.. or.. just repot into a vegetive potting soil... a vegetive soil should have twice as much nitrogen as phosphorus and potassium... and a flowering soil should have half as much nitrogen.... so just read the labels .. and check the NPK rating...

[kev.au]

The girls i had outside last year where in

*Potting mix, *worm castings, *trace elements, *blood n bone, *Lime to bring down the PH and some *compost, also

put some clay balls at the bottom of the pots to improve drainage

 

 

Note, just a small handful of each, per pot was all that i used, the plants loved it.

 

 

Would only feed them seasol/power feed every 2nd or 3rd watering.

 

cheers, kev.

[Fibrofeend]

*Lime to bring down the PH and some *

 

 

cheers, kev.

 

Lime is an Alkaline, it is used to RAISE the PH in soil. IF you want to LOWER the PH in soil use Sulphur.

Alterantivley if you can get your hands on well matured compost it will usually have a very stable PH of

around 6.5, which will level out acid and alkaline soils not to mention be great in general for what ever you are growing.

Also for plants Dolamite can be a bit more user friendly that using straight lime.

Edited October 8, 2009 by Fibrofeend

[kev.au]

Lime is an Alkaline, it is used to RAISE the PH in soil. IF you want to LOWER the PH in soil use Sulphur.

Alterantivley if you can get your hands on well matured compost it will usually have a very stable PH of

around 6.5, which will level out acid and alkaline soils not to mention be great in general for what ever you are growing.

Also for plants Dolamite can be a bit more user friendly that using straight lime.

 

 

You're right, my bad.

[UrbanCultivator]

Thanks for the info guys. I find dolomite lime quite useful for neutralizing the ph in soil that might be slightly acidic. Ive gone with a perlite, vermiculite and coir peat mix for the seedlings and early veg, I'll mix in a bit of the soil to that mix when I do the transplant I think.

[Reverend]

Only suggestion I would make is drop the vermiculite.

[Uncle Chop Chop]

Can perlite and vermiculite be brought at local nursery or at hydro shop. I went with a staright potting mix with hydocell (from my nursery shop) did not know about perlite and vermiculite at the time. I think I should have had some of either mixed in there as i takes a while for my mix to dry out between waterings. Any thoughts???

 

Cheers Chops

[BaronS]

Local nursery, hardware store, coles garden section if it's a large coles.

 

If getting rid of water faster is desired you, AFAIK, don't want Vermiculite.

[weedfiend]

yes put the vermiculite in the bin as it is garbage

i use a 70% coco 30% perlite mix in foam cups and veg in them 4 two weeks

after the two weeks i move them to larger pots same mix but with 1 inch expanded clay on the bottom to assist drainage

i also put 1/4 gram of cobra on top of each cup and only use a good bio-organic root stimulant like aminozym or bloom roots

thats my method and works perfect 4 me but

there will be over a 100 ways of to veg your girls but with most things you have 2 do some trial and error and find a method that suits you