![]() If planting clones, you can plant right away. ![]() If you are planting seeds, it is always the safest to wait until you have done the water regime above for a few days just to be careful. We have customers plant seeds directly in our soil with no issues. Once you have your pots watered in, and soaked with water, you can plant in them. It is a plant based surfactant that can speed up the process of soaking your soil. To speed this process up, you can always use a little yucca extract in your water. Once the soil has fully soaked up water, you should notice that it will retain way more water than you are use to. This is the best time to also add a layer of mulch. If you have chloromine in your water you will want to make sure your carbon filter can filter chloromine.Īfter your first few small waterings, I would suggest spreading your cover crop seeds around the top layer of soil. This is why we suggest a basic sediment filter, and carbon filter. When using an RO water filter we have seen that when you completely strip the water of it's minerals, you will slowly begin to get yellowing plants. Straight city water can slowly kill your soil through the chlorine, or chloromine. Regardless of if you are using city water, or well water, we recommend using a sediment and carbon filter on your water. You also don't want to use an RO water filter. When using our living soil there is no need to ph your water. Adding a layer of mulch will help slow the water so it has time to soak in. Doing 2 or 3 really small waterings per day multiple days in a row, is the best way to start your containers. However, once it soaks up the water, it will retain it very well. Hydrophobic means that it wants to shed water. The base of our soil is made from peat, and peat is hydrophobic. say a commercial brand of regular soil, you will notice that you can not just dump water on it and it's going to soak it up. Proper watering of your newly filled containers is important to get the best start for your garden. You can read this blog post about what is the best size pot for living soil. Are you wanting to use pots, or soil beds? With hydro you clearly wouldn't ever use a soil bed, and the pots you use will be so tiny, they wouldn't work well with living soil. Next, you will want to consider your containers. Obviously with our soil, we have taken all of the guess work out for you, and it's ready to go right out of the bag. The most important thing to start with is a quality living soil. That's why water only living soil makes zero sense to me. This is all achieved after multiple cycles where you have spent the time and care creating an optimum soil. This can not be done in one cycle by watering only. The entire point is to build up your soil over time so that the quality of your plants increases, the water holding capacity increases, and the addition of nutrients or amendments decreases. To me, this is a complete waste of a quality living soil though. If you are wanting to do a one and done grow, and toss your soil after you are done, then you can make it as easy as watering your soil and throwing it out. You will also not be able to run your living soil as a no-till living soil by doing a water only method. However, you will not get the best results doing this. Technically this is true, and totally possible. ![]() You are going to instead focus on feeding the soil, and making sure that all nutrients are bio-available in the soil when your plant needs them. You won't be adding things like "Super Bloom 5000" or any other traditional bottled nutrients. You want to approach using living soil with the frame of mind that you are feeding the soil, not the plant. When using living soil we want to focus on building the soil, and nourishing the microbes, insects, worms, etc. If you are accustom to using a soil like say, Fox Farm, or Roots Organics, it's still going to be different enough that you should educate yourself to ensure optimum results. If you are switching from Hydro it's going to be wayyyy different than what you are use to. When making the switch to living soil most people will have some questions. ![]()
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