Soil or coco? Brands and nutrients help please

[UkMedicalGrower]

Oh no, I'm not a mentor here on the forum, but we do have a request section if when the time comes you would like one to help guide you (and one is available)

I used straight coco on the advice of my mentor, many mix in perlite, growers preference really.

What nurtients did you use?
I'm going to get Canna a and b
Rhizotinic
Pk 13/14

Just making sure I'm not missing anything? Could I use bud candy or anything else? Also what silica products do people use and is it necessary? thanks just wanna make sure not missing anything from the list

[IceCalibur]

What nurtients did you use?
I'm going to get Canna a and b
Rhizotinic
Pk 13/14

Just making sure I'm not missing anything? Could I use bud candy or anything else? Also what silica products do people use and is it necessary? thanks just wanna make sure not missing anything from the list

CANNA Coco Professional Plus
CANNA Rhizotonic
CANNA Coco A & B
CANNA Pk13/14
Growth Technology - Liquid Silicon
Green Planet Massive (not absolutely necessary)
PH up/down

[Bud Lightyear]

What cheese are you running? I've looking into big Buddha cheese

Mainly Exodus cheese (Clone only) I've done the Big Buddha version a few times...Not bad cheese and a good yielder.


Regards BL

[Farmer Geddon]

I was wondering what people would recommend for a first time grow? Im looking at doing photos and just need a bulletproof medium and nutrients range to use and there's so many products to choose from

[Coco might be better than what I'm recommending but I've not enough experience with it to say that it's bulletproof. The talk of coco needing ec and pH meters puts me off. I'm currently trying it without meters. If it really does need meters, I'll sack it. I've been self sufficient without meters for over 10 years. I've no interest in going back to using meters no matter how much more yield I might get from using them.]

3 parts perlite to 1 part vermiculite in 15 litre hempy buckets. Bulletproof. For nutrients, the lucas formula. Bulletproof. For seedlings, full strength form day one. Same mix in veg as in flower. No need to flush. In your case it would be 8ml of General Hydroponics hard water micro and 16ml of GH bloom to 4 litres of tap water.

In the unlikely event of your tap water being too hard for GH hard water micro, then use pH test drops to ascertain what amount of pH adjustment is needed. (Ballpark pH is good enough for passive hydro. Aim for pH 6.2) Once that is established, all you need do is to use the same volume of pH adjuster every mix.

The upside of passive hydro is that every day is a new feed and every new feed resets the ec and pH. We don't need to to know exactly what the ec and pH is. We only need to know that it is good enough to get us through until tomorrow.

[Lynoman]

I'm planning my first grow and I will go for soil because I find that a good quality soil it's much more beginner friendly and also more forgiving