Great show and thanks ahead of time for the help! I’m currently using Coast of Main Stonington Blend with Mammoth P and Recharge. Should I be adjusting my pH and what else can I use to get the best results? Thanks again DGC, Much Appreciated!
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If you adjust your ph you’re missing out on the best part of organic lol.
Do a search on this site “coast of maine”
..there’s some good stuff I found, but to bypass the likely “comment awaiting moderation” you can get it quicker on your own.
A real rabbit hole search on this site for organics, amendments, soil feeding, etc will find you some good info on things to add and why to add. Good luck, Cannabiseur🤙🏼
Coast of Maine has some very specific recommendations on how to re-amend their Stonington blend based on veg and flowering time. It has everything you need. I would suggest adding coconut water or a seed tea, plus an aloe and kelp foliar. These should get you through with minimal effort and great results. Personally, the Stonington blend is too expensive. I buy a bag of happy frog and mix it with their bar harbor blend (too heavy by itself) and feed with biolive. The results are as good, but cheaper.
Micronutrients, insect frass, fulvic/humic acids, amino acids fish or soy, compost tea, rock dust, enzyme seed sprout teas, top dressing with earthworm casting and compost, mulch. Lots of things like knf, fungal dominated compost, cover crop. Can take it as far as you have time or patience for. Lots of things to try out. Buildasoil has a good section under education in blogs. Stay irie and keep it organic
Awesome Thank you guys so much! This is exactly what I need. I’m on my 4th grow but this is my first time using anything but water. My first soil was the Vermont Compost Company Fort Light mix that came with a all inclusive 2×4 tent/light kit I bought that advertised jus needed water and honestly the flower came out really good but I started getting way more into growing and now I have 2 5×5 tents so i can keep a Perpetual grow going. But anyway i switched soils because they couldn’t deliver to my area anymore and found that the stonington blend was closest to the Vermont fort light. I’m way more invested than when I first started and want to grow the best organic i can so any advice is much appreciated! I also need help deciding on what type of light to get for my new flower tent. I’m using and Eye 600w Hortilux Ceramic Blue MH right now for veg but am thinking about switching to LED or maybe using both types if that’s something you can do? Thanks again for all the advice!
In most cases tap water will be fine in the Stonington soil, I have personally had great results using unadjusted tap water at 9.8 (yeah you read that right). You could theoretically run into issues if using water with high mineral content ie hard water due to micronutrient levels being thrown out of whack. Look into that if your using well water just in case.
If you can get the Stonington soil see if you can get the Stonington Plant Food. Also made by CoM, it’s the same amendments that are in the soil so you are sticking to the same program. Assuming your in New England, Ace Hardware is a distributor of CoM products so even if your local store doesn’t usually carry it you can ask them to add it to their next order.
In terms of lighting IMO if you can afford it LED all day long. HID are hot and inefficient, they get the job done and are cheap just keep in mind the previous points. Certainly hold on to any equipment you are still using but maybe next time you need to buy a new bulb buy a LED fixture instead?
If you decide on LED don’t get a blurple on Amazon, look at HLG, Rapid LED or Spectrum King. All friends of the show with excellent lights for growers of all levels.
Finally I agree with Doc’s extras described above. Coconut water is full of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and cytokinins which can help develop auxiliary branching on the plant. Aloe also has a great selection of minerals and vitamins but also contains saponins which deter insect activity and stimulate the plants innate defense system SAR against future attacks. Kelp is full of micronutrients and growth hormones if you don’t want to buy a separate product you could probably get away with using recharge as a foliar to get your kelp.
I will say that I believe that the Stonington soil is of considerably higher quality than Happy Frog or any other Fox Farm soil. I agree the price is a little steep but would encourage moving towards building a soil from scratch instead of cutting the good stuff with happy frog.
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Someone is always putting down my Happy Frog, but it has a colorful picture of a frog on the front, lol. ☺️ I understand and agree, however. I have been using the same mixture of HF and Bar Harbor Blend for a few rounds. After I amend it with aeration, some lobster compost, biolive (sometimes Stonington dry) and castings I have a rich soil with good humic content created in part by the breakdown of the partially composted bark fines in the original Happy Frog. I do make my own soil for outdoors though. By the way, have you tried their Sprout Island? Beautiful living seed starter!
I have never been disappointed with a CoM product. The Sprout Island is great, I have a worm bin with some of the lobster compost in it right now can’t wait to break that out. Shits gonna be dope.
COM PRODUCTS are probably the best soil products widely available in NE. They are all good and i have never gotten fungus gnats from their stuff. I am lucky to have a farm shop that carries the stonington blend for about 25 % less than most nurseries and grow shops. Use their bar harbor for autos though – at least for the top portion of your pot. Autos can’t handle the stonington blend until the get established