Bad Soil

[Sir_Tokie]

I use Roots Aurora brand soil. They ship all over. Check it out. I misted all my plants with a weak milk and water fine spray last night and 2 hours later, they were happier than anytime lately. No burning of leaves either. I am under t5s. Big oscillating fan on 24/7 dries the leaves fairly quickly.

You mist your plants with MILK/Water? I would think that the milk would spoil and create molds/fungus to grow. Could you please explain the milk/water method and why you use it? Thanks...take care..

 

[nvthis]

If you are worried about it at all, just pull it from the pot and knock off the soil you don't want.

Here is a great link for ya.

http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35928

I have taken mother plants from 5 gal buckets to 2 gal pots and they did fine. Not neccesarily recommended, but it obviously can be done.

 

[Daverenich]

Im using MG Organic Mix now, im my second week in and no bad signs yet.

 

[420benny]

You mist your plants with MILK/Water? I would think that the milk would spoil and create molds/fungus to grow. Could you please explain the milk/water method and why you use it? Thanks...take care..

I know it sounds really weird. I am dealing with a powdery mildew problem and the calcium in the milk helps get rid of it. After seeing happiness on the infected plants, I decided to use the rest of the spray bottle on all the plants. They like it! If you don't use it all and forget the sprayer for a few days, the smell will tell you right away that it spoiled. Under big lights, it might be better to do it with the lights off, just to be safe. You need lots of moving air to dry the plants or you will be making the problem worse, imo

 

[The Effen Gee]

I am just going to put it like this:

If you use MG soil and think your doing good by your cannabis, you are not only a lazy grower, but stubborn and ignorant too.

...even novice growers in my area KNOW that it is bad for your plants and harms your finished product.

...and if you believe that MG produces quality...than I invite you to take a look at what your opinopn of "top shelf Cannabis" really is.

If you went into ANY hydro store and asked for MG anything, you will get laughed out of the store, because you prolly need to quit growing.

There, I said it. Mg is crap, and if you think it's good for your plants...you need to get a bit more reading done.

 

[crozar]

maybe 1 day MG products will make a new mix its all about the competition soon with these soil companies lol

 

[superballs]

Well guys, thanks for all the advice! I found my problem with the leaves browning...it was the pesticide/miticide/fungicide spray product I was using. It's called Neem ll, by Greenlight. The lady I spoke with at my local shop said it was good for fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers and all, but to spray at night cuz its an oil base and the sun will burn...so I did and I just realized thats when my problems started happening, I tried it on other random plants and weeds all over the backyard with the same results everywhere. I stopped using and the palnts browning stopped. I guess the oil sticks around for a few days with a shiny coating and the temps here climb over 100...Problem solved...It might work outside for other places where the temps dont reach 100. Oh and as for the soil, I found a place near me that carries Fox Farms and bought some...dug up my baby and removed all miracle grow soil pretty easily. She is doing great since the transplant 5 days ago and growing like an erection in a porn shop

 

[Old Bud]

While I don't use soil containing slow release nutes or any hot soil for any young plants, there is nothing wrong with using MG ferts in veg. They are cheap and if you start at about 1/3 the recommended dosage and work up from there you should have no problem. Of course they don't sell MG, Or any similar nutes in hydro shops, they try to convince you to buy something that costs 20 times as much and may work 5% better. I suspect that most of those who rant about MG have never actually used it. There are some I am sure who can tell MJ grown with MG by the smell just as there are those who can tell a $50. bottle of wine from a $100 dollar one but I am not one of them and I suspect most others are in the same boat.

 

[astrobud]

i dont mean to be rude but it sounds to me like your putting a lot of bad stuff on your grow, of course i grow indoors it all seems a bit extreme to me. (milk, pesticide, ect) i use mg at first and it sucked (btw) and imo means in my opinion

 

[NYC_Diesel x Jack_Herer]

Oh and YES I have learned a valuable lesson for the future And thanks also to you Reddy, youre words and zips helped my decision and I guess goodluck to me, I'm sure I'll be here alot more to whine about what I did wrong guys By the way...What does "IMO" mean?

IMO=In my Opinion

True, MG soil is not the best, yes you can grow good weed in it, no there is no reason to kill the plant and start over. Some bud is better than no bud. If I put 1 plant in MG soil and flower it under a 1,000 watt HPS and give it a lot of TLC, I can guarantee that my plant will still be better at harvest than your plant if you use the world's best growing medium and flower it under a 100 watt CFL and give it no TLC. Are the buds feauted on the cover of High Times grown in MG soil? No, Does this mean buds can't be grown in MG soil? certainly not. have used MG soil and had decent reslts, but no I would not use it again.

 

[superballs]

i dont mean to be rude but it sounds to me like your putting a lot of bad stuff on your grow, of course i grow indoors it all seems a bit extreme to me. (milk, pesticide, ect) i use mg at first and it sucked (btw) and imo means in my opinion

Well I haven't put milk on my plants, but I here that a watered down mist of milk, (dried well after), helps kill fungus. The only things I have given my plant was half the reccomended dose of superthrive during the transplants to help overcome shock. The miracle grow soil didnt harm it, but it is gone now and I just have Fox Farms soil. The only other thing I put on is that Neem ll stuff one time because I have a pest problem, yea it did burn the leaves, so I stopped using it. But this is all. Oh yea and thanks for telling me what IMO means, I've still been trying to figure that one out, lol.