Recent content by chamenon

So far these are the opinions you shared; "Are the pots sitting on cold concrete?" "If they aren't cold then they are hungry." "I never understood someone who has zero experience deciding to do it all themselves without any understanding of what it is they are doing." "I blame cannabis forums."...

I've grown before using Ocean Forest and DynoGro, I had no problems they were bushy and green with no deficiencies. This is my first living soil attempt with dry amendments only. I didn't do anything all by myself either, the soil is mixed by Dirtcraft Organics Dirtcraft Living Soils. I didn't...

I use 5000K LED shop lights, supported by a 20W blurple. In total I am running two of those LED lights (40 real watt each, ~9000 lumen in total) and Photon app with a diffuser is showing me that I have around 500PPFD at the canopy level which at 20/4 light cycle should be around 35-40 DLI...

Okay, thank you! I think I'll have get a pH pen and see if anything is out of whack at this point. May I ask you if you're doing hydro why do you not purchase the Apera? Doesn't constantly buying these yellow pens become more expensive in the long run? I'm thinking about switching to hydroponic...

Is this what's a hood drainage? If that's it, I don't set the pots up like that, I filled the entire fabric pot with soil but added plenty of pumice in the mix. I guess it's time to buy that Apera pen instead of the grow tent and the duct fan. I'm going to be using the pH pen even if I switch...

No, they're in my room, in the closet, closet has carpet on the floor and they're elevated from the carpet by around 2-3 inches on a metal rack. I'm attaching a photo of the rack I'm using. I used to let the top 2 inches of the soil dry out but then I read that in living soil it's best to...

As some of you know, I tried to grow in living soil with dry amendments. This was my first try and it seems like it's going to be the last, at least for a while. I've had all kinds of problems, all at the same time, stunted growth, chlorosis, curled leaves, warped leaves, weird shaped leaves...

Thanks for the answer everyone, I got busy and couldn't follow up with the thread, thanks for taking time to share your opinions. As I'm reading more online, I came to the conclusion, people prefer worm castings to compost and most people mix worm castings with compost due to high cost of worm...

Well, time to start mixing my own. I thought I should run my list through by the forum in order to get some suggestions or heads up about any potential mistakes? I'm basing it on Coots recipe. I'm trying to catch a balance between cost, local availability and quality. 1/3 Sphagnum Peat Moss -...

Thank you for sharing these Jan, I'm happy you're getting some growth! I didn't have any issues getting that explosive growth when I was using bottled nutrients. I'm having trouble with the organic/living soil approach. But hey, no one said it was going to be easy! I just transplanted to 3 gal...

Thank you all. I'll order some mycorrhizae and transplant to 3 gallon smart pots for the rest of the vegetation and probably come up with more questions as I go. :) I really appreciate all the answers!

I'm suspecting if my pH is creating these problems. I've always been told not to worry about pH with living soil but also I used to be very particular about my pH in my previous grows. Maybe I should start pHing as well since the soil mix I use is coco coir only. Maybe I should implement some...

Thank you, I've been applying some diluted Epsom some into soil also as foliar before lights out. I think transplanting might be a good idea. I'll put them into 3 gal smart pots. I was planning to apply Bio-Live (since it's essentially a transplant mix and has mycorrhizae, do you think I...

I was considering some DIY earthboxes but not sure if I should follow this path any further. That's the problem I'm having. Not sure if I should spend that money on pH and ppm meters and an air pump and start over again with hydroponics.

Hi again, I think this is thread is my grow diary now. I've got some healthy growth on 3 out of 4 plants. One is still stalled and growing very slowly and the other 3 are still slow but at least they're growing. This is almost the 6th week and they still look very small for the time passed. I am...