I’ve resorted to root plugs due to the hard time I’ve had getting older Bodhi seeds started, then I realized they work ridiculously fast. I’ve stuck to those for the last 6 months or so.I’ll bean soak until they sink, then put in the plug sideways with a touch of the sponge on top to create darkness.
I have been curious about the seed starting soil from BAS though.
Edit: I guess I didn’t really answer your question @CrunchBerries my apologies. For now I am using build a soil lite for the plug once it takes and it works well. I can’t see the seed starting soil being bad.
Yeah I have to agree, for me rapid rooters or root riot plugs are essential, then I will transplant into a recycled mix, but one that’s a good bit lighter on the amendments than the stronger mix of what I prefer to use in flower.
I mix up a tote of fresh coots mix for seedlings. I make sure to do the basic mix using only clean good ewc, and dont add any extra fungal/bacterial amendments like kashi or malted barley. Ill water it twice with gnatrol as well when its in the mixing stage. This has worked well - better than reused.
I have a bag of the BAS seed starter soil. It’s light and finer than their normal soils. Seems like some good stuff. I didn’t start seeds in it, but I did fill my cups with it once my seedlings stretched.
Same soil I grow everything in. I really don’t think “starter mixes” are necessary. It doesn’t happen in “nature”; plants get pollinated, they form seeds, the seeds fall into the ground and sprout and grow up into big, healthy plants haha, no “starter soil” or weaker lighting needed.
Maybe if you’re growing in a super-hot soil mix that hasn’t composted for a month or something, you might need to be careful, but I know your soil mix is all good, so… Plant away, dude! Haha.
I have been soaking seeds in a little fulvic for a day before I plant them lately, like maybe the last three grows, but either way, those seeds still get planted in the soil from my bins. And I didn’t start doing that until like last year, always just planted the seeds in the soil before and it always turned out fine.
Just don’t put any fucking biochar in your soil haha… Biochar is the bane of my existence. Or the bane of my plants’ existence, anyway haha…
What makes you say biochar is bad? Biochar works wonders for soil and literally people like clackamas Coots who are well known stand by biochar . I’ve used it in my soil since I started growing and making my own soil.
Any build a soil soil product basically uses biochar in all of their mixes and that’s arguably the best bagged soil brand you can get which is basically built off of clackamas coots mix soil.
It’s a joke, just a reference to this weird-ass situation I got into last year where I drove out to Thousand Oaks and had to spend like four hours with a dude who was selling biochar that was supposedly charged, but it turned out it wasn’t (only realized it after I added it to my soil and watched a bunch of my seedlings fry up).
And I fully expect crunch to remember every single one of my posts on my grow logs haha…
Are you sure you’re thinking of the same guy? I mean, you can search coots stuff and he doesn’t use a lot of inputs . The biochar is one that has been consistent. Email him and ask him or google coots biochar I’m sure you’ll find results about how good it is for soil , and why it’s used a lot of in high quality soils.
As for the barley, he was a baker and used it a lot in his bread as diastatic malt and lead to his curiosity and he added it into worm bins, then it lead to flower pots. Again, you sure it’s the same guy you’re referring to?
Hey and I can claim on the internet to be Michael Jordan’s son born out of wedlock . I don’t know you. If you have been growing longer than I, that’s great. I don’t claim to be some guru.
Respectfully if you’re where you claim to be and have been doing this so long as you claim, I guess I’m curious why you give two flying shits about what some random guy has to say about biochar when you’re so tenured and know the benefits ?
Also, it’s right in the article you sent. You missed that.
“Finally there is the rock dust which I recommend 3 cups of either basalt or granite. Only these 2 materials are ‘paramagnetic’ which is an integral part of the CeC discussion (Cation exchange Capacity).”
It seems like you’re randomly either picking a fight , or trying to defend minitiger perhaps? I’m not sure of your end goal here. Toodles.
Cool and I’m unsure of your infatuation with me. I know the soil I’ve made with biochar not in it and soil I purchase without biochar was not as good as the ones with is so I’m unsure of what validation you seek. What’s your end goal? Are you that bored you wanna have a debate over biochar on a Friday night?
I believe the end goal is to provide useful, and key word here, accurate information that fellow growers can leverage to make better decisions for their grows. Most grow info out there is anecdotal, so having someone provide background on how they’ve used a product and their results is very helpful for fellow growers. Seems pretty straightforward to me
It’s a trip how living soil feels like DWC 20 years ago from a consumer perspective. Pretty sure there’s a bunch of KNF inputs and other ferments on the market, but…
We are on the same team. Keep your dough and grow baby grow. Cut it out.
Congratulations on the small Human @CrunchBerries. Exciting times.
Maybe she’ll be the ONE
. I’ve used it in my soil since I started growing and making my own soil.
