I just started a couple plants 6 weeks into veg, did you find yourself needing to add nutrients during certain cycles or did you just use the soil itself?
@@MeesterBoop The main cycle that I kept an eye on is bloom. Typicaslly there are plenty of nutrients for thew plants early stages of life in these soils but some plants are just big growers and for that Ill supplement with some bloom nutirents
I had a 1000 lb tote of the Build A Soil 3.0 mix delivered on a pallet from Colorado to Virginia and I can say unequivocally that it is the best growing medium I have used. Incredible results with average yields of 2 1/2 lbs of dried flower per 4'x4' space. I'm currently on my 2nd run in the same soil. Side note: The Big Rootz soil blend from the SoilKing is an equally great product if you can get it in your area.
@@holeshotinspectionllc2412you're lucky being that close to them, I'm hoping I can convince any of my local nurseries/grow shops to carry their products, not all but some, especially their 3.0 soil
New grower, 4x4 GGT with Kind X750, wanting to go fully organic. Are you amending through the cycle or soil-only with BAS? Do you re-amend after harvest before using again? What pruning method do you use? Hoping to maximize my yield in only one tent(for now), and I’ve got a ton of great seeds.
First time grower. Best thing I ever discovered was BuildaSoil 3.0. Plants have had no issues and are super healthy. Added some BuildaFlower top dressing before flowering and some BuildaBloom a few weeks in. Add in incredible customer service and I am a customer for life.
Ive had the BuildASoil 3.0 in my garden for the last 5yrs. And the Soil just keeps getting Better and Better. Same soil, I just reamend. And im good to go!
Within the last year, I tried Roots Organic formula 707 (4), Roots Organic Greenfields (5), Build-A-Soil light (2), Coast of Maine Stonington blend (3), and Build-A-Soil 3.0 (1) and rated each in parentheses. I also wanted to try Bio365, but haven't been able to find it. Honestly, I'm so impressed with both Build-A-Soil blends that I stopped trying new bagged soils. I now use Build-A-Soil 3.0 exclusively. After each grow, I just re-amend the BAS soil with Craftblend, worm castings, and a good compost. I'm sure many beginners will benefit from your video.Thanks for the video, I found it very educational.
@@jhonwayne1003 complicated noooo not even lol but also nothing is easy at first. But yeah promix was one of the ones I wanted to try but like I said BAS never let me down
I mix one bag of ocean forest, one block of cocoa choir, and about 3 quarts of perlite. My babies to adults love it. I don’t typically start adding nutes till about 4 weeks depending on what the plants look like. Never go off recommendations off directions. Always do what your plants want. If they are kicking ass at 7-8 weeks in the same soul don’t change shit. Run it till the plants talk to you. They will let you know what they need pretty quickly!
The last two years I have been using Coast of Maine Stonington Blend as my base. I like a nice diversity in my garden media. I do use some BAS ingredients to basically make my own version of their 3.0. I'm a very big fan of Craft Blend! Two other ingredients that go into my base are the Montana Grow Volcanic silica and the pumice that they sell. I always cook my media before use. I add all my amending ingredients, with some intended to feed the microbes and fungi. When I pot up a bag or an Earthbox, that media is highly active microbially and fungally. This last batch that I made, in addition to my normal compost T to inoculate everything, I added BAS product called RootWise and brewed it for the last four hours of the compost tea brewing. It definitely made a difference in the root intrusion into the nutrient mound of my Earthboxes. I have a set amount of ingredients that forms the nutrient mound. Same strain same tent same light, the root intrusion into the nutrient bound occurred far quicker than it has before. The root intrusion is how I gage the timing when a second top dressing to the nutrient mound is needed. I definitely hand to change my schedule. Naturally, with bigger roots, you're going to have a bigger plant and that's what occurred. I also had to flip sooner than anticipated.
💯 purple cow from From clone to harvest all the way through didn't need amendments. But I threw some end. Some of the best smoke I've had in years from this soil.
I started with bioall 365 full grow mix some mykhos and Gaia green 4-4-4 and my results have been great. Fed after about 5 weeks after going in soil and about once they were established in veg then again during flip. They are doing great.
I've had really good results with Big Rootz, the last 2 seasons indoors, and outdoor. Highly recommend it. I just popped a frankenfunk and a frankenparm from Dream Beans. First run of autos both popped in Big Roots in 4 days, with no domes, just moist and a spray bottle. I also use Green Trees amendments, I've had huge harvests. Also, Big Rootz uses vermiculite, not perlite, and can help with PH. Awesome soil would love to see your opinion on it. Also I live where build a soil is based, and still use Big Root.🤙
Nice video. I am a user and believer in the build a soil 3.0, I do use some added supplements to boost yields. it's amazing and the customer support is unmatched
I really like the Coast of Maine products. I usually start with a large bag of the potting soil and add a bag of their lobster compost. I add a ton of perlite for proper drainage and add diatomaceous earth. I am using Remo Nutrients (the full suite) along with microbes, blackstrap molasses and silica. I haven't made the full jump to organic yet.
My understanding on the BAS 3.0 is that they added the mustard seed meal, in part, to make it a little less desirable to fungus gnats. So far I have not experienced issues with this recipe, so maybe it helped 😁
Tried and true. Start all my plants is straight happy frog. Then transplant into 50/50 Happy frog/Ocean forest. Gets me 4 weeks of veg. But thanks for saying HF only gets you a few weeks. People hate on it because they try to go 4-6 weeks in it and they are stunted.
Outdoors in 30 gal happy frog do you think they will be able to go all the way through flower in the next month or two over a week or two into flower at least no bud quite yet but they’re massive like 45 feet tall and at least 34 feet wide Mega massive trees. They’re doing better than another 30 go. I have that’s a different strain that’s got ocean Forest mixed in, but that one started out like a 10 gallon Coco core was indoor for months before she transitioned outdoors so she didn’t have a smooth lift off I’m wondering if she’ll produce nicer flowers because she has a lot more nutrients to get into as her dig down deeper through the weeks of flower And tips would be greatly appreciated. I really have worm castings and Coke meal for amendments at the moment. Researching curious about other options and things to add as well cause I had some yellowing leaves and stuff that looked like deficiencies earlier on my other plants with the ocean forest, mostly the first few weeks after she got transplanted into that big pot wasn’t sure if the soil was too hot or if it was just generally too hot outdoors, but now seem to lot more adapted to it she’s very green, but her leaves are not nearly as enormous as the monster that on the other side of my housenot sure if it’s just a location or if it’s the fact that they transition smoother or they’re just better genetics because they are some pretty quality beans from the dispensary so they should be true
@@banappeal_8121 Oh man it could be a couple different things. Transplanting in general is quite the event for plants so it could have been a little stresed plus if you went from coco to a heartier soil it could have been a little shock for the plants. Also for the happy frog plants, you may want to introduce some gaia green power bloom to help carry those though. ITs a easy to use organic dry amendment that takes around 2 weeks to break down but adds a lot of beneficial amendments to the soil. Check out our video on that and let me know if you have anymore questions!
I use to use pumice, perlite, and vermiculite to help with draining and water retention, but not anymore. They all compact together and actually clog up your draining. A nice organic soil really will not need anything added. What I do do though, is put smashed up terra-cotta and marbles in the bottoms of my pots. Excellent draining and the terra-cotta will absorb a small amount of moisture, so if the soil ever happens to dry out too much, it'll absorb the moisture from the terra-cotta.
This was such a great video, thank you!!! Can you make a part 2 with Roots Organics, ProMix and Mother Earth plz? 😁 These are other soils I’ve seen in one of my local grow shops
this year for the first time I mixed my own soil with ingredients that are available in my area as best as I can. Used home made compost from the garden, produced with comfrey, straw , horse manure from the year before. I tried a coco based living soil without peat(really wanted to ditch the peat because of environmental reasons) , but in all other aspects pretty much like the build a soil - clackamas coot-style recipe. Started outdoors automatics as a test and I am so happy with the results, that I will continue to mix my own soil. Had no Issues with any nutrients. No burns, no deficits, no calmag related issues. Only thing I propably got to admit is that peat based soil would retain water a bit better. Coco on the other hand doesn't get hydrophobic once dry. shout out to Jeremy from Buildasoil for the education and information he gives out for free. Check out his podcasts and homepage!
Great video! Love the break down. However, I live in an area where most of these aren't even an option to obtain locally. Use the best option you have access to. For me that would be Foxfarm soils.
I used to work at a hydro garden supply store. And I've only heard of the Foxfarm soils. I wish you would have tried the ones we had in our store. I remember ProMix and Formula708 I think. Three others I forgot the names.
I've used about all of these minus the Purple Cow and I find it funny that Bioflower came in first because that is my least favorite of them all. 😂 BAS 3.0 all the way!
This is my first official tent grow and I don't want to mess up. I have the fox farms ocean forest and a bag of purple cow indicanja Can I mix them and go with seedlings or do I need a plug like thing until it roots then put it into the mix? Tia any help is appreciated
I would use a Root Riot plug or some seed starting soil to get those seeds and baby plants established first. Sometime these super soils run a little hot for tiny plants.
wow spectacular video! very fun! The last water test was super cool out of the bag but I would assume if you could water the soils then let them rest and do the test again once they are hydrated your results might change. In other words starting with a similar moisture content.
Hey thanks I really appreciate it. Yea I hear ya, I guess I tried to replicate what a consumer might have to deal with by just purchasing the soil and what they could expect out the gate. I would love to dive deeper into this though!
@@HappyHydro Yes100% I loved seeing the water go into the soil and saturate it! Very fun and haven't seen others do this. But one mistake we make is overwatering so, once the soils are moist another similar test would show which mix is loosing moisture the fasters or keeping it the longest. slight overwater and those gnats start coming! hahahaha
So ive been looking into organics and ive heard alot of good stuff about natures living soil. From whatvi understand i could take something like happy frog and mix it all together and it be good for the majority of the grow? Any experience with a natures living soil mix? I do have experience with 1 grow using cheap soil and gaia green. I definitly seen results from gaia green and plan on keeping some around to top dress. Or would top dressing even be needed in a natures living soil mix? Autoflowers and 5 gallon pots for reference. Really wanna knock my first "good grow" out of the park
I re use bio soil Gypsum and Gaia green and build a soil inputs. Never ever touched fox or anything else. Frankly I prefer to mix everything my hand... Hate perlite
Why does the BioFlower bag say, ". . . not for use as a fertilizer product."? I must have missed the final results for the drainage test, which is of interest since the winner, BioFlower, came in first.I found that BioFlower really retains the water, and if I use it again, I'll mix 30% pumice in with it. I am planning on trying BuildaSoil 3.0 with some of their amendments. Thanks for the video, Aaron.
What happened to the sohum soil that happy hydro used to carry? Used that stuff back when i was learning to grow few years back before i went full buildasoil and that stuff was great!
Purple cow doesn't need a compost tea. If you use the right amount of soil for the time you want to grow it needs nothing but water. You just can't grow a plant for several months with a tiny pot. 5 gallons of that soil will grow an auto seed to harvest. 10 gallons will do a photo.
Sohum is the same, but you can't find it anymore for some reason unless you buy it by the pallet, which is what I do. It's $1,500 for 60 bags, which makes it only $25 a bag. Purple Cow is $1,300, but you get 70 bags since it's only 1 cbft while sohum is 1.5 cbft.
I hear a decent amount of growers using it. It’s a little harder to get in my area but I’ll see if I can get my hands on that and hit some more research about it
Hey yea unfortunately Sohum is no longer in production for the foreseeable future. I do really Bio365. Between the different soil styles they have and a real good process that is virtually insect free. I really cant complain
What do you think about the results?
Like the shout out for the dream beans ! 🙌 been extremely happy with bioflower since I switched
Haha for sure! Awesome to hear
love your hair broski!! buisnes in the front. party in the back!!
@@cj-pz2kk haha thanks my dude!
nice video :)
can you try out "Sonnenerde - Bio Hanferde" ?
I must say! Coast of Maine Stonington blend soil is seriously AMAZING!!!! Used it both on Regular & Autoflower. Unbelievable results
Great to hear!
Local store quoted me $48 for that bag! I noped right out but now u got me thinking
@@poeticartist2nv Glad to help!
I just started a couple plants 6 weeks into veg, did you find yourself needing to add nutrients during certain cycles or did you just use the soil itself?
@@MeesterBoop The main cycle that I kept an eye on is bloom. Typicaslly there are plenty of nutrients for thew plants early stages of life in these soils but some plants are just big growers and for that Ill supplement with some bloom nutirents
I had a 1000 lb tote of the Build A Soil 3.0 mix delivered on a pallet from Colorado to Virginia and I can say unequivocally that it is the best growing medium I have used. Incredible results with average yields of 2 1/2 lbs of dried flower per 4'x4' space. I'm currently on my 2nd run in the same soil. Side note: The Big Rootz soil blend from the SoilKing is an equally great product if you can get it in your area.
Thanks for sharing!
@richfiryn Build a soil is 40 minutes from me and I use big rootz, both are amazing.🤙
@@holeshotinspectionllc2412you're lucky being that close to them, I'm hoping I can convince any of my local nurseries/grow shops to carry their products, not all but some, especially their 3.0 soil
Shout out, VA! 1❤️💛💚👊
New grower, 4x4 GGT with Kind X750, wanting to go fully organic. Are you amending through the cycle or soil-only with BAS? Do you re-amend after harvest before using again? What pruning method do you use? Hoping to maximize my yield in only one tent(for now), and I’ve got a ton of great seeds.
First time grower. Best thing I ever discovered was BuildaSoil 3.0. Plants have had no issues and are super healthy. Added some BuildaFlower top dressing before flowering and some BuildaBloom a few weeks in. Add in incredible customer service and I am a customer for life.
Are you growing in a tent? What size pots are you using?
Great content always on point! Hope your holidays were great!
I appreciate you Shawn! Thanks for the watch. They were busy and chilly but excellent overall. I hope you had an amazing holiday season as well.
Ive had the BuildASoil 3.0 in my garden for the last 5yrs. And the Soil just keeps getting Better and Better. Same soil, I just reamend. And im good to go!
Heck yea!
Buildasoil for the win! That's all I've used for 3 years now and I LOVE it.
Do you add perlite or anything for draining? I'm just starting it today
@@zoodognope. Just water and love
It is an incredible soil!
@zoodog no, it's ready to use out of the bag, it has pumice instead of perlite for drainage, which is better in many ways
Within the last year, I tried Roots Organic formula 707 (4), Roots Organic Greenfields (5), Build-A-Soil light (2), Coast of Maine Stonington blend (3), and Build-A-Soil 3.0 (1) and rated each in parentheses. I also wanted to try Bio365, but haven't been able to find it. Honestly, I'm so impressed with both Build-A-Soil blends that I stopped trying new bagged soils. I now use Build-A-Soil 3.0 exclusively. After each grow, I just re-amend the BAS soil with Craftblend, worm castings, and a good compost. I'm sure many beginners will benefit from your video.Thanks for the video, I found it very educational.
Love BAS products
BAS is to damn expensive.
Been using build a soil since I started its hard to try other stuff because it’s that good, solid solid stuff never had an issue
@@TerpCrazy Seems complicated. I need a step by step guide. Also promix organic for 14.99 for 2 cubic feet is absolutely hard to beat.
@@jhonwayne1003 complicated noooo not even lol but also nothing is easy at first. But yeah promix was one of the ones I wanted to try but like I said BAS never let me down
I mix one bag of ocean forest, one block of cocoa choir, and about 3 quarts of perlite. My babies to adults love it. I don’t typically start adding nutes till about 4 weeks depending on what the plants look like. Never go off recommendations off directions. Always do what your plants want. If they are kicking ass at 7-8 weeks in the same soul don’t change shit. Run it till the plants talk to you. They will let you know what they need pretty quickly!
I like where your head is at! always listen to the plants
The last two years I have been using Coast of Maine Stonington Blend as my base. I like a nice diversity in my garden media. I do use some BAS ingredients to basically make my own version of their 3.0. I'm a very big fan of Craft Blend! Two other ingredients that go into my base are the Montana Grow Volcanic silica and the pumice that they sell.
I always cook my media before use. I add all my amending ingredients, with some intended to feed the microbes and fungi. When I pot up a bag or an Earthbox, that media is highly active microbially and fungally.
This last batch that I made, in addition to my normal compost T to inoculate everything, I added BAS product called RootWise and brewed it for the last four hours of the compost tea brewing. It definitely made a difference in the root intrusion into the nutrient mound of my Earthboxes. I have a set amount of ingredients that forms the nutrient mound. Same strain same tent same light, the root intrusion into the nutrient bound occurred far quicker than it has before. The root intrusion is how I gage the timing when a second top dressing to the nutrient mound is needed. I definitely hand to change my schedule. Naturally, with bigger roots, you're going to have a bigger plant and that's what occurred. I also had to flip sooner than anticipated.
Whoa some heavy duty first hand knowledge! I appreciate the info and input!
Ive been having great luck with the bioall365 (yellow bag) with gaia green inputs ❤❤❤ best ive grown to date with it!!
Nice! That does sound like a winning combo!
First time grower this helped a lot!!!
Awesome! That's what I was hoping for!
I use Build a Soil, amazing. Literally water ONLY and am growing the dankest flower I have ever experienced.
Buy it!
Heck yea!
Same here the best soil and plants I’ve ever had..ever
B-A-S is my one and only for the past two years.
@@joemendel3873 sounds like it’s doing the job!
Do you sow directly into 3.0 or is it too hot for seeds?
I've heard others using a 50:50 blend of the Light Mix and 3.0
I started them in Pete plugs! Planted directly into Coast of Maine Stonington blend. No problem! They exploded in growth
Nice!
Man you have a top tier mullet brother. Great content
Haha thank you my dude! Appreciate you
I used coast of Maine bar harbor blend last year and holy smokes thats some good stuff I'll be using it again
Whoa! Awesome to hear you are having good results!
Now a 3week seedling test would round this test out greatly!
Then a long term side by side test would be stupendous!
Oh man I was working towards it! I am trying to get my hands on some clones but may resort to seeds if I have to
@@HappyHydro tiki cuts . Fast and easy amazing genetics and a awesome price
@@HappyHydro Okay Greatness!
Thank you for the fun content!
Yaaaaa
@@HappyHydro seedlings are good because it test how well the younglings do in slightly hot soil mixes!
@@618NoRRiS024thanks for the heads up!
I mix BAS activated bio-char, pumice and rice hulls into Stonington blend then top dress craft blend every 3-4 weeks, the results are 🔥
Sounds awesome
I use those same products ,what ratios are you using into the stonington blend ? Good post.
💯 purple cow from From clone to harvest all the way through didn't need amendments. But I threw some end. Some of the best smoke I've had in years from this soil.
I started with bioall 365 full grow mix some mykhos and Gaia green 4-4-4 and my results have been great. Fed after about 5 weeks after going in soil and about once they were established in veg then again during flip. They are doing great.
Great to hear!
Thanks for the great video, this was very informative and helpful! Also, I'm diggin the mullet!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks, I grew it myself lol
Coast of Maine for the win 🏆
Do you use any nutrients with it I’ve been using it also and it’s amazing so far but wondering if I should add any
Coast of Maine been using coast of Maine since I started growing with no problem 💯 🎉😮🎉😊🎉
Good to hear!
Sunshine mix used to be number one ..
I haven’t heard of that one!
I've had really good results with Big Rootz, the last 2 seasons indoors, and outdoor. Highly recommend it. I just popped a frankenfunk and a frankenparm from Dream Beans. First run of autos both popped in Big Roots in 4 days, with no domes, just moist and a spray bottle. I also use Green Trees amendments, I've had huge harvests. Also, Big Rootz uses vermiculite, not perlite, and can help with PH. Awesome soil would love to see your opinion on it. Also I live where build a soil is based, and still use Big Root.🤙
I've heard good things, I'll have to test it out!
Nice video. I am a user and believer in the build a soil 3.0, I do use some added supplements to boost yields. it's amazing and the customer support is unmatched
Yea that is some special stuff they are doing over there!
I really like the Coast of Maine products. I usually start with a large bag of the potting soil and add a bag of their lobster compost. I add a ton of perlite for proper drainage and add diatomaceous earth. I am using Remo Nutrients (the full suite) along with microbes, blackstrap molasses and silica. I haven't made the full jump to organic yet.
Sounds like you got a decent plan in place!
You have a New subscriber!! This was dope!!
Welcome aboard! Thanks, I appreciate you!
Great video, thanks for all the info
Any time!
My understanding on the BAS 3.0 is that they added the mustard seed meal, in part, to make it a little less desirable to fungus gnats. So far I have not experienced issues with this recipe, so maybe it helped 😁
Whoa that is cool! haha fingers crossed!
It’s not only for that reason but it also does a big biological reaction when it gets wet supercharging the biology in the soil🤙
Great work on this 💪, I feel you rated these correctly.
Hey thanks! I appreciate it
Tried and true. Start all my plants is straight happy frog. Then transplant into 50/50 Happy frog/Ocean forest. Gets me 4 weeks of veg. But thanks for saying HF only gets you a few weeks. People hate on it because they try to go 4-6 weeks in it and they are stunted.
You sound well seasoned! Glad to help
Outdoors in 30 gal happy frog do you think they will be able to go all the way through flower in the next month or two over a week or two into flower at least no bud quite yet but they’re massive like 45 feet tall and at least 34 feet wide Mega massive trees. They’re doing better than another 30 go. I have that’s a different strain that’s got ocean Forest mixed in, but that one started out like a 10 gallon Coco core was indoor for months before she transitioned outdoors so she didn’t have a smooth lift off I’m wondering if she’ll produce nicer flowers because she has a lot more nutrients to get into as her dig down deeper through the weeks of flower And tips would be greatly appreciated. I really have worm castings and Coke meal for amendments at the moment. Researching curious about other options and things to add as well cause I had some yellowing leaves and stuff that looked like deficiencies earlier on my other plants with the ocean forest, mostly the first few weeks after she got transplanted into that big pot wasn’t sure if the soil was too hot or if it was just generally too hot outdoors, but now seem to lot more adapted to it she’s very green, but her leaves are not nearly as enormous as the monster that on the other side of my housenot sure if it’s just a location or if it’s the fact that they transition smoother or they’re just better genetics because they are some pretty quality beans from the dispensary so they should be true
@@banappeal_8121 Oh man it could be a couple different things. Transplanting in general is quite the event for plants so it could have been a little stresed plus if you went from coco to a heartier soil it could have been a little shock for the plants. Also for the happy frog plants, you may want to introduce some gaia green power bloom to help carry those though. ITs a easy to use organic dry amendment that takes around 2 weeks to break down but adds a lot of beneficial amendments to the soil. Check out our video on that and let me know if you have anymore questions!
I really do like these tests. Like that 1 guy that tests all our other stuff
Thanks!
I use to use pumice, perlite, and vermiculite to help with draining and water retention, but not anymore. They all compact together and actually clog up your draining. A nice organic soil really will not need anything added. What I do do though, is put smashed up terra-cotta and marbles in the bottoms of my pots. Excellent draining and the terra-cotta will absorb a small amount of moisture, so if the soil ever happens to dry out too much, it'll absorb the moisture from the terra-cotta.
Interesting idea, I’ll have to give it a try!
This was such a great video, thank you!!! Can you make a part 2 with Roots Organics, ProMix and Mother Earth plz? 😁 These are other soils I’ve seen in one of my local grow shops
Great suggestion! I would like to do another round sometime soon
this year for the first time I mixed my own soil with ingredients that are available in my area as best as I can. Used home made compost from the garden, produced with comfrey, straw , horse manure from the year before.
I tried a coco based living soil without peat(really wanted to ditch the peat because of environmental reasons) , but in all other aspects pretty much like the build a soil - clackamas coot-style recipe. Started outdoors automatics as a test and I am so happy with the results, that I will continue to mix my own soil. Had no Issues with any nutrients. No burns, no deficits, no calmag related issues. Only thing I propably got to admit is that peat based soil would retain water a bit better. Coco on the other hand doesn't get hydrophobic once dry.
shout out to Jeremy from Buildasoil for the education and information he gives out for free.
Check out his podcasts and homepage!
Sounds awesome! Yea Jeremy is incredible
The dirt does not smell like fish. But yes the plant feed does! That's why it works so good
Haha makes sense!
The legal cannabis industry is Maine developed Coast of Maine Stonington blend Pacific for cannabis plants. It's Amazing
It is pretty great
thanks for doing this video
Thanks for taking the time to comment and support my channel
Thank you Joe dirt
Not the Joe Dirt!
I use bioflower in no till containers. 3rd grow going and i love it.
Oh nice!
I've used Coast of Maine Stonington blend in pots outdoors for 2 years.
Great video! Love the break down. However, I live in an area where most of these aren't even an option to obtain locally. Use the best option you have access to. For me that would be Foxfarm soils.
Well good thing we have free shipping for orders over $49 at HappyHydro.com so you can get what ever soil you want!
Happy frog and Ocean Forest are my go to
Are you my father?
Mine too. I add manure
Coast of maine kicks ass
It’s a heavy hitter for sure!
@@HappyHydro I've never seen the first 2. But I'm in East tenn
Whenever I crack open a bud and pull out a long mullet hair, I think of this kid 😂
Hahah a true honor, thank you
Plus when you use Coast of Maine Stonington blend dirt. You don't have to feed them for 30 days " just water
That is pretty clutch
This guy has the business party situation going on 🤯😎
You already know!
Happy frog is one of the best to germinate straight into
I can agree with that
Build a soil is the best IMO alot
of info from the creator and lots of great amendments
Jeremy is great to watch!
BUILDASOIL 💪🏻💨💨💨💨💨💨
woot woot!
I used to work at a hydro garden supply store. And I've only heard of the Foxfarm soils. I wish you would have tried the ones we had in our store. I remember ProMix and Formula708 I think. Three others I forgot the names.
Yea there are ton more soils out there that I would love to get my hands on!
I've used about all of these minus the Purple Cow and I find it funny that Bioflower came in first because that is my least favorite of them all. 😂 BAS 3.0 all the way!
Haha both are good in my book!
Bio365:is an excellent line. I suggest using the bioALL instead of flower as it s a bit lighter than the flower. But it's water only for first month
Yea that are all solid soils!
I use foop during flower with my indicanja and it's FIREEEEEE Absolute thriving plants
Build a soil 3.0 is my go to and favorite. I’ve used all the others you reported on as well. Great info for new growers
Hey thanks! I appreciate it!
This is my first official tent grow and I don't want to mess up.
I have the fox farms ocean forest and a bag of purple cow indicanja
Can I mix them and go with seedlings or do I need a plug like thing until it roots then put it into the mix? Tia any help is appreciated
I would use a Root Riot plug or some seed starting soil to get those seeds and baby plants established first. Sometime these super soils run a little hot for tiny plants.
You can just drop the seed in fox farm ocean forest if you don't have plugs, start in solo cups, water only.
wow spectacular video!
very fun!
The last water test was super cool out of the bag but I would assume if you could water the soils then let them rest and do the test again once they are hydrated your results might change. In other words starting with a similar moisture content.
Hey thanks I really appreciate it. Yea I hear ya, I guess I tried to replicate what a consumer might have to deal with by just purchasing the soil and what they could expect out the gate. I would love to dive deeper into this though!
@@HappyHydro Yes100% I loved seeing the water go into the soil and saturate it!
Very fun and haven't seen others do this.
But one mistake we make is overwatering so, once the soils are moist another similar test would show which mix is loosing moisture the fasters or keeping it the longest.
slight overwater and those gnats start coming! hahahaha
@@hiroyopoetker hahah right on there!
That was a cool video!! I’ve been wanting to know more about Indicanja!
Yea it’s definitely an interesting soil for sure!
@@HappyHydro they have Indicanja at a Nursery about a hr. from my house 1 cu ft. Bags for $19.99!!! Unbelievable price!
@@sugabearchiraq5755 whoa not bad!
Used tge coast of Maine soil, never again it put scale bugs iny indoor setup... Never had scale bug prior to that 15 seasons no issues till then
Thats good to hear!
Build a soil is incredible
I’ve taken build a soil 3.0 nutrient mix and added to fox farm happy frog. Some of the biggest plants I’ve had outdoors
Whoa! Like a mad scientist! What kind of ratios you working with?
Bioflower 365 for the win🤙.
Livin' the Dream over here 😎
Right on!
Right on!
I use Bioflower and BioAll and my plants love it.
@@davidscollard8662 how do you like it?
They all work.
Coast of Maine Stonington blend was designed just for the legal Cannabis growers in Maine
BIG ROOTZ SOIL for the win!
👀👀👀
So ive been looking into organics and ive heard alot of good stuff about natures living soil. From whatvi understand i could take something like happy frog and mix it all together and it be good for the majority of the grow? Any experience with a natures living soil mix? I do have experience with 1 grow using cheap soil and gaia green. I definitly seen results from gaia green and plan on keeping some around to top dress. Or would top dressing even be needed in a natures living soil mix? Autoflowers and 5 gallon pots for reference. Really wanna knock my first "good grow" out of the park
I’ve never used natures living soil mix! Please report back if you do. Typically with organic amendments you don’t have to worry about over feeding!
I re use bio soil Gypsum and Gaia green and build a soil inputs. Never ever touched fox or anything else. Frankly I prefer to mix everything my hand... Hate perlite
Now thats dedication!
Why does the BioFlower bag say, ". . . not for use as a fertilizer product."? I must have missed the final results for the drainage test, which is of interest since the winner, BioFlower, came in first.I found that BioFlower really retains the water, and if I use it again, I'll mix 30% pumice in with it. I am planning on trying BuildaSoil 3.0 with some of their amendments. Thanks for the video, Aaron.
Hey that is because it is a growing medium with everything in it and not just a fertilizer to add to something. Both are really nice soils!!
wed love to perticpate in the next shootout! we will out perform any soil!
Heck yea! Id love to check it out!
Which one would you use
I’m a Bioflower person these days, but always on the lookout for new soils and combos
Coast of maine dont seem to be too bad if you ask me and i will give it a try
Let me know what you think!
Been using fox farm for awhile now. Lately the ph I've been testing after watering is really low. Gotta find something better.
You might find one of these other ones better!
Would be great to see grow comparisons
I was trying to do a real setup with them all but ran in to some difficulties
@ would be great to see grow comparisons when convenient 👊
absolutely powerful mullet sir
hahah thank you!!
Coast of Maine Stonington blend soil ends up being cheaper because you don't have to fertilize for 30 to 40 days. Just water
Most of these soils you don’t
The proof is in the pudding Jack. Where is the video where you dropped a seed in each pot, let it grow, and showed the results?
I know I was trying to get a set up with them all but ran into some difficulties
Great vid..you should do more like it.
Thanks I appreciate it!
What happened to the sohum soil that happy hydro used to carry? Used that stuff back when i was learning to grow few years back before i went full buildasoil and that stuff was great!
Ah man, they've gone dark and halted production for almost a year now
@HappyHydro ahhh that sucks, they were solid! Hopfully one day they make a return lol
@@TheGamingGrower yea I hear ya!
Is in your tent 😊
haha nice!
You won't be disappointed.
Heck yea!
I tried ocean forest for the first time this summer and have never had such a bad fungus gnat infestation. The rumors are true.
Good to know!
Great info. Going to have to mullet over
GOT EM!! 😝
Purple cow doesn't need a compost tea. If you use the right amount of soil for the time you want to grow it needs nothing but water. You just can't grow a plant for several months with a tiny pot. 5 gallons of that soil will grow an auto seed to harvest. 10 gallons will do a photo.
Good info!
Sohum is the same, but you can't find it anymore for some reason unless you buy it by the pallet, which is what I do. It's $1,500 for 60 bags, which makes it only $25 a bag. Purple Cow is $1,300, but you get 70 bags since it's only 1 cbft while sohum is 1.5 cbft.
@@goodtogrow7774 Yea I hear ya. Where do you get your pallets of sohum from?
I dont know where you live but here in Quebec,Canada the best soil is Promix or gaia green soil !!!
We are starting to finally get Gaia Green in the States!
I am very interested in this test drive for my grow, after 40 years of growing whats needed for me to get different flavors?
Slurry results: What is ppt. for the TDS??Why did you not just give it all in ppm??
Parts Per Trillion
@@HappyHydro So, Coast of Maine Growers mix would be 0.00000, basically zero parts per million(ppm)?
Let’s go great 👍 video love ❤️ it would love to know if you have a good nutrients for growing in hydroponic wold love to know cheers 🥂
Just curious on your thoughts on the Pro Mix Soil's Like Pro Mix HP High Porosity with Mycorise and Pro Mix BX biofungicide mycorrhizae
I hear a decent amount of growers using it. It’s a little harder to get in my area but I’ll see if I can get my hands on that and hit some more research about it
Coast of maine is top shelf
Definitely high quality!
How do you like bio 365 vs sohum? I really like sohum but unable to find it right now.
Hey yea unfortunately Sohum is no longer in production for the foreseeable future. I do really Bio365. Between the different soil styles they have and a real good process that is virtually insect free. I really cant complain
Good info. I’ll mullet over
Hahahaha I love that!
Montana grow is a silica amendment
Thanks for the info!
I use Ecothrive (UK)👌
Right on!
I came for the info...I stayed for that beautiful mullet 🫡
Hahah my dude! Much appreciated
Thisidiot has the same haircut I had in eighth grade I’m 49 and used to cut my own hair😂
Me tooooo😂😂
"Pro mix bx" best growing medium hands down!
I'll have to get into some next time!
Lets goo from whittier ca first time viewer
Has anyone tried the Bio Terra Plus from Canna?
No, not yet but I am interested in trying it out
Man i wish you did this with more soil. Like BAS light and other soils
All but the one I use and swear by.
What is it?!