Soil Growing 103 - FIVE Recipes + How To Test Soil + Lex’s Soil Preferences

[@feyfrost8783]

Not a mention in any of your soil vid's about mycorrhizae fungi.

[@LexBlazer]

Actually, I've mentioned my thoughts on fungi and soil pretty recently over the summer...but it was an off-KZbin exclusive episode. As a result far fewer people have watched it or know it exists lol ...but that's why i omitted that here.... here's the link since you asked (good comment & eye!) : www.theweedtube.com/video/magic-mushroom-storage-mushrooms-in-soil-your-other-questions-26790

[@JesseJames83]

@8:36 playa

[@feyfrost8783]

@@LexBlazer All though I do thank you for the video link, I am left less then riveted. The pictures you highlighted were in fact not a mycorrhizae relationship forming fungi, but harmful species. The term "mycorrhizae fungi" is the general term for species of fungus that symbiotically form bonds with plants roots through literately growing into the root tissues and exchanging nutrients for sugars. The fruiting bodies you had shown are all harmful species that will directly compete for nutrient uptake with the roots,several being capable of small-scale chemical warfare to keep your plants roots at bay. Been keeping the same culture of several species for over 5 years now and using it in all my grows from citrus to veg to cannabis. The difference is palpable, being able to physically look at your root systems and notice the large change is remarkable.

[@dystopiagear6999]

Sorry Lex, but you're completely missing the point of "live" soil. It is NOT "alive" unless *specific* mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria are present and healthy. They are the basic building blocks of living soil systems. Without them, any "soil" is nothing more than a different style of hydroponics medium.

[@ceili]

Fey Frost do you grow in pots or in the ground? I had been reading recently about how mycorrhizae amendments are useless in pots when grower feed their plants with liquid/powdered feeds because as a result the plant and fungi have to reason to form a symbiotic relationship

[@Andrew-eo5bv]

Thank you. I will be rewatching this series. I need something simple and quick.

[@astraldreamhead193]

Learning a lot from watching your videos Lex, absolutely great content, I am so happy to have found you as a resource

[@cliffordadkins3361]

Thanks Lexs when I first started 2 years ago didn't know anything watching you made me a pro

[@CannaBeardGrows]

what do you think about rabbit manure? we are making our own supersoil and using our rabbit's manure as part of the composting N and in part with wormcastings for the teas for our 4 outdoor this year in 25gl pots, any thoughts or suggestions?

[@bobm549]

Have watched too many dirt videos , like your delivery the best . About every three grows , it all comes together .

[@austintittle5046]

I've seen every video, I cant thank you enough man.

[@theoe2879]

Great job. Content, and subject very interesting and delivered from a knowledgeable source. Watching and rewatching. Thanks Lex!

[@RowsOfGreen]

Great video lex. I’m in the process of cooking a super soil right now. Good information

[@r3drumg33k3]

The last few years I have discovered bone char, definitely a worth while addition. I also normally mix in alfalfa meal.

[@MikeyGreen710]

YOU THE MAN LEX

[@djdimigaming5324]

2:54 If you have your own chickens can you use that? also that eat meat. so I dont think thats good for the plant right?

[@sealsept]

Thanks Lex - certainly appreciate the info. Some good recipes to start with and as we evolve as growers we all come up with our own take / favourite ingredients. Namaste

[@fivestar2227]

I used to be all about the soil then I switched over to hempy buckets w a 50/50 perlite/vermiculite mix inoculated with recharge (humic,fulvic,mykos,kelp,bennies,carbs) and im never going back. You just have to be on top of the ph no room for error there. Its lightweight, cheap, pests do not like it, its easy to sterilize, cannot over water it, easier to flush and reusable indefinitely.

[@bennybenz.]

One of my favorite videos brother! No matter how many other trolls want to complain about "mycorrhizae", to me it's kinda a given and no brainer as to when you add it to your super soil mix(all organic). Like you said pick a good base soil first, and add usually worm castings or chicken poo works great I hear too or both and perlite/verm for better soil aeration, sometimes peat moss(but I heard something bad about adding peat to soil but cant remember what it was right now), coco, which I've never tried but going too soon and amend it with stuff like bat/bird guano, blood n bone meal, some Dolomite or Epsom salt and I always like to add a good amendment for the "micro" nutes as well, and should be good! Now I guess my question would be is it better to go ahead and add your microbes like an amendment (Recharge, n roots terp tea are good ones) and powder form like GW as well but never used that! Or add it like you do fish shit and just water it in your soil, which I know would take longer for microbes to break it down to food available for the plant so I guess what would be the best option here to introduce your microbial life into the super soil??? Thanks man! You've been quite helpful over the years my fellow Gromie!!! 👍💯👌😁🙏✊✌

[@michaelwhitehair9103]

Thanks Lex... even though I indulged during the video... it was necessary to have a smoke on completion of watching the video... cheers brother

[@sclint3156]

Hi buddy, the quick use super soil explanatiin: what is the ratio size of the 3 parts soil to the cup s8ze of extras, it's says 3 parts soil and third cup guano! So how do I know how much soil to use ratio with the guano and dolomite etc? Thanks.

[@dustyk9286]

Lex,,what's your thoughts on soil mites.....good ,,bad,,how to get rid of

[@chunkygrows791]

Thanks again Lex, you always come through for me, I'm getting ready to start my soil for this year's run, I'll be potting my plants in middle of May or end more than likely, which of these soil recipe's do you suggest I use being I only have two months and some change before the start of my season, thanks again and I appreciate what you do sir??? #TrueGrowerzLove

[@nickthegardener.1120]

Hi will this work with my vegetables.👍

[@tact1calshot989]

Trying to find a mix recipe for adding clay balls and dr earths veg organic blend and Gaia green 2-8-4 with a bunch of worm castings and root booster all mixed in with fox farms happy frog and a log of coco fibers that’s my mix or what I wanna make a mix of but I’m not sure how much clay balls to use for a five gallon bucket

[@michaelmasters6028]

I keep my organic soil simple. Cannabis isn't complicated.

[@jacksonnelson6880]

Explain ?

[@joshcandelario5548]

What is your mixture if you dont mind telling? Im new to cannabis growing and curious of a basic non overcomplicated way to make a soil that will get the job done without mixing a million expensive ingredients. I understand NPKs and which additives add each macro but would love a basic rundown or guidance on small grow(10 plants) mixtures for soils that wont cost a bunch without buying premade ones. Not growing commercially but just my first try/experiment for personals.

[@alphaomega8373]

@@jacksonnelson6880 Fox Farm, any bloom booster, fungicide and a couple bowls of water with a drop of soap and vinegar. The last bit is for the gnats that Fox Farm always seem to have. Quality of soil makes it worth it. I use Gaia greens dry nutes btw. Rarely need the 4-4-4- though.

[@B01]

@@alphaomega8373 or use ocean forest+Pre-cooked super soil and only add molasses lol also, BTI annihilates fungus gnats. Safe for use in Organic grows too, natural and doesn't harm beneficials.

[@alphaomega8373]

@@B01 BTI does look promising thank you B

[@erikvanvelzen]

I've been doing only soil amendments for the last half year. "live soil" if you want to call it that. I gather local soil made of peat and decomposed plants and pH-balance it with lime, add eifelgold for micronutrients, perlite, then add powdered or pelletized nutrients for NPK (and Mg if it wasn't already in the lime). It took some time to dial in but I now have the correct EC. But it's a lot of hassle. I will move towards the Lex Blazer way: prepare a good medium as before but feed the NPK using nutrient solution. I expect more consistent results.

[@howtheheliru]

Hey Lex, could you talk about watering? Phing ? and adding nutrients as the soil gets depleted. Tring to get a better tasting weed in the end. Thanks

[@LexBlazer]

the better taste is a mix of what the genetic taste actually is of your strain and how well you're doing your final flush. watch my flushing episode if you wanna get a better handle on that....I also have a full episode just dedicated to pH.

[@howtheheliru]

@@LexBlazer thanks lex! I would love to know about your watering! If you ph your water to a certain value. Also if you use liquid nutrients. The flush is what I missed on my grow because of weather and seeing some rot and powdery mildew. The taste suffered because it has a sodium kind of taste left in my mouth. I vape my flower.

[@johnbaudino2535]

Good job Lex thanks for your awesome information God bless

[@timsanders8127]

Thanks lex it’s awesome to watch and learn from your videos I burned several I hate that I appreciate you very very much for directions ❤️

[@davidmason9088]

what happen to your stock prices? making room for big business maybe. I'm on a budget always, so I lightly doctor store bought soils, but for me that's good because I need to move forward gently with small dose increases at a time. Still need a lamp, but the fun is in the growing ; ) Your molasses trick seemed to be working for me. I used it as early as week 7. 3 left I found a cool lizard light for the uvb.

[@SANjU-zf9se]

How can I calculate and decrease the amount of complex full coverage raciepy

[@donaldhudson2235]

Thanks for the info laxs

[@kitrussell3180]

Is fox farm ok for indoor and greenhouse . I not really want to go hydroponics. 1st year of growing

[@michaelnicholas9576]

Need help with my plant 🌱 how much water after 2 days of growing

[@bigbrotheriswatching2680]

70 gallons, you want to wash away all of the soil leaving just the bare roots. clip half of those off and dip the entire plant in rooting hormone, take a bic lighter and burn the tips of the leaves a little, that'll teach the plant what happens if it decides not to grow right. after that, put it in a container full of pebbles and water it with a mixture of cow blood, insect and worm poop, chicken soup, x-lax, toothpaste, pond scum, and LOTS of bird poop - gonna want to buy a few pet birds and harvest their poop.

[@puregreentv3394]

Can you still feed liquid nutes to a "live" soil mix? I'd imagine it would only be necessary later on in the grow. I have room for 1 plant only so i want to get this right from the start

[@fattymcbastard6536]

Yeah you _can,_ but now you're complicating things, and may build up salts in the soil, requiring you to pay attention to your runoff. Growing in live soil lets you set it, and forget it, if you stick with organic fertilizers.

[@brianswille]

Do you dispose of your soil and start fresh with every grow?

[@rustyshackleford1978]

The last recipe is subcool's super soil recipe.

[@mahmoudajjan466]

Hi Mr lex, thank you so much for the video, it's very useful and it's a learning video for beginners, i have a question but it's not about this video, my reveg ninga fruit is in a 2 gallons pot and it's her first week of flowering "outdoor growing "yeah so can i transplant it to a 4 gallons pot or not? Plz answer if you want, and thanks anyway.

[@dammitman1664]

I got a question for you Lex, if I wanted to achieve, say 400 ppfd, would there be a difference between my lights raised up on fullish power and lowering and dimming until I used the least amount of power??

[@johnGilletti]

I have a farm and rabbit shit, compost piles, chicken shit, neighbors have aged pig shit. We have saw dust and parts of the land that the dirt is incredibly perfect and dark and im going to put some styro in as if it was perlite, any suggestions?

[@DJohnsonIV33]

Great video! Very informative series. Thank you!

[@mannish3345]

What seeds you using?

[@jm12green31]

Hey lex always enjoy your videos where is your accent from

[@jawaone2474]

As to where you Do a flush in veg at the 3-4 week, do you or does it help your plant to flush in flower? Not a full flush obviously but a clear flush

[@hunglo666]

no need to flush if you dont use nutes from the store, stay all natural

[@jesse11078]

Awsome very informative

[@novafiddler1712]

Instead of using epsom salt.... let your soil cook for 3-4 weeks and then do a slurry Ph test on the dirt. If the Ph is too low, add dolomite lime which will release magnesium over time and raise/help buffer the Ph.

[@user-yz5oh4jj7v]

what is native soil blend?

[@christophergomez8179]

Is it okay to feed compost tea to a plant growing in super soil?

[@asyouwish1143]

Absolutely 👍

[@K.B.E.B]

Guano bowls 🥣 .....Collect the whole set!!!

[@reyreyes3276]

Great videos

[@saudasiri6019]

where are you from?

[@jeffavery5278]

love your vid's

[@caseylabelle1128]

Thanks again Lex

[@gtavtheavengergunnerlegend3340]

Castings can be cut in most cases by 80 percent and still receive the benefits. Pro tip

[@meramazhabislam394]

i like your T-shirt .... Where can i get it

[@dankrauz1036]

Love ya man. You give great knowledge.

[@mrstrongable]

Nice very informative 🤙🏻

[@Mybwain]

I soiled myself, but thanks

[@bryanbatton01]

Ha! Me too! We're mud buddies

[@JesseJames83]

Aight ima go shower now

[@chrisruiz3269]

Subscribe to me and lol do same back

[@elizabeth2621]

:o

[@Luqueeeeeeeee]

What about veganics?

[@dogelonmars2455]

Thanks for the info bro👍👍👍

[@lynettekrohn7933]

I've got 8 in soil right now. They're doing amazing but I will never do it again. What a hard way to go.

[@the_sage_head1953]

Another great video. The t shirt change made me laugh

[@scottrouwhorst881]

Nice

[@hungnmiami]

I just created one that's not really a soil I keep calling it that but it's apart lyrics I use all the ingredients in the last one except instead of topsoil I use cocoa and sphagnum and I put compost in one and didn't use compost in the other the compost is going to give you fungus gnats just get used to it buy you some yellow sticky paper inside of a week you won't see anymore this potting mix kicks ass this grow is the best my plants have ever looked at this stage from seed my last grow gave me the best tasting weed I have ever had I had living soil but with that living soil you get beneficial bugs and then you get pain in the ass ones like spider mites which I had to throw away 8 plants that were in flour no more living soil for me it's a lot less work when you can have everything you need in the soil and don't have to run out and buy nutrients I'm not against them I have a closet full but less is more

[@seeitfrommyhouse5816]

Great info! Thank You

[@JJN603]

try sucunat instead of molasses

[@announmousmylife3967]

Mate get organic compost river soil soil that like a few hundred meters from a big river that's exist for thousands or millions of years layer it around make sure there a thick layer of the ground soil

[@markopipinic4300]

1galon is how much litr

[@MrBreadbin66]

4.2 litres

[@sushiyamaster989]

Bone meal and blood meal are not interchangeable.

[@reddeaddaily62]

Great video 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

[@IntentsGrowing]

Awesome video man! easy to understand and plenty of knowledge! cheers Lex! TNB rocks, Ive used A&L Labs for leaf testing, sure does add up lol 50 bucks a sample 4 samples and get hit in the face lol

[@_westcoastcanine_]

Perfect timing for me! Thanks man

[@majorkramer]

Couldn't see the T-Shirt properly. Hope that wasn't an indorsment.

[@kevjitsu2133]

😎 ma man 👍

[@teapotdome]

azomite is a secret weapon in soil building too.

[@recklessgamer4890]

I thought super soil you don't have to ph.

[@MichaelResznekiTrolling4Truth]

I got worms

[@donvito204]

Excuse me?

[@AdamMHachey]

2021!

[@woody3476]

Ayee 420th like 😎

[@jasonknight5045]

30$ logan labs, melliche 3 test

[@lpzy796]

Lex can i have your email? Can i ask u few questions?

[@LexBlazer]

There's a club just for that - see any of the video descriptions for the link.

[@glorbojibbins2485]

What accent is this?

[@brock4629]

1.25x much better lol

[@alphaomega8373]

Chicken crap stinks way to much for indoor.

[@bradbryan9137]

your voice tho...

[@snstx7872]

You definitely know what your talking about but your voice is like a fucking Tranquilizer puts me straight to sleep

[@dystopiagear6999]

Sorry Lex, but you're completely missing the point of "live" soil. It is NOT "alive" unless *specific* mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria are present and healthy. They are the basic building blocks of living soil systems. They must interact with larger organisms and plants to develop, maintain and most importantly *sustain* a healthy growing environment. Without them, any so-called "soil" (organic or otherwise) is nothing more than a different style of hydroponics medium. You will always have to keep replacing it and/or adding more and more amendments to it - which of course is great for fertilizer and "soil" salespeople... but not so good for the consumer's wallet or for the planet.

[@djjersey1179]

Everything this guy says is complicated or expensive asf