Hello Everyone,
Doing my second grow ever, and in my first grow I used floraflex’s soil/nutrients, and for this second one grow I am looking to get better results.
Can anymore recommend good soil if your starting from cuts? Maybe about a month of veg then into flower.
I dont plan on doing living soil since from what I read you have to change the soil a few times throughout their life, and for nutrients I am looking into using botanicare’s line.
Not sure where you heard this. Living soil is alive with lotsa goodies in it. In living soil you do not let the soil completely dry out as you kill the microbial life you got in the rootzone. I have never heard of or seen anyone on here that uses living soil mention changing it. That defeats the purpose of living soil. @OGIncognito do you do living soil? cannot remember…and even if not can you confirm or correct my assesment of living soil to the OP?
as for soils good for cuttings, I use Happy Frog but there is also Light Warrior by FF and I think COM Stonington blend is another good one. @Bunger64 do you clone alot. I always see lotsa babies in your posts, did not know if they were seeds are clones…
Not a living soil grower but what you stated sounds on par, pretty sure most recycle. @MeEasy @HippieRunner1 @ChittyChittyBangin can help. I use a bubble cloner for rooting cuttings
, several methods out there 
Yes I actually run a set of clones in between seed runs. I have used all the different soils, the growers in town hooked me up with Bio 365.
I met with them at the Cannacon here in Denver last year. Bio365…Was very interested in their soils but alot of the vendors at those events are looking for large scale comm growers and it seemed like the dude wasn’t interested in talking to a guy wanting to buy 1 bag… Still interested in their soils though. Thanks for the pop in.
Of course my recommendation is coast of maine… ive never changed my soil, i actualky recycle and recharge.
I’m assuming you are talking about potting up, not changing soil. Which is common in any medium. @LiesGrows
A good answer would be based off of nutrient usage. There are several soils that’ll do the job. How hands on or off do you want to be?
The best soil is going to be what works best for you and how much time you want to invest with feedings.
Also, clones can be treated like adult plants. Just an FYI while doing your research.
The local grower HONEST PHARM has been a great asset in my brain picking, it is nice to see we all are on a similar adventure and they are a bunch of great people
Sense you are using liquid nutes most soils are going to be good for you i personally use Fox Farms Happy Frog soil or Ocean Forest you can get abput 3 weeks of veg in Happy Frog and abpit 3-4 with Ocean Forest with just water only and with Organic living soil you dont want to continually disturb the soil with my living soil only time i disturb is afyer i harvest and recycle my soil
If you want to grow organically then living soil is a great option. It sounds like I’m the past you may of herd something about changing the soil out the first couple of years. Not necessarily the case.
When working with organics it’s mostly about breaking substances ect down to make it readily available for the plant. One might add a cover the first year to help with water evaporation but come the second year, the cover crop is going to add a lot of nitrogen. Hopefully being broken down from the worms and transport amounts the soil.
You definitely don’t want the soil to dry out between watering sad you want to keep all the living micros ect alive. You will learn to care for the soil more. The plants will fall into line.
Here are two photos taken on the same day of the year from the same location. The top photo is from last year. The second photo is this years same exact soil. One huge difference is I’m using half the brewed teas this year as last. Simply because the soil has gotten better over time.
The one issue I had with living soil was its not good for inside growing it was infested with bugs worse than anything out there, feel I wasted my money plus the cost of curbing the infestation it caused. For each his own wont go that route again, I was going to buy the 100lb box to use im glad I wasn’t able to make it happen wont go done that Rabbit hole again.
Good bugs or bad bugs living soil should have living bugs thats the whole point of living soil haha its a entire ecosystem within the soil
I understand that but it was bad never again ill just keep recycling and adding as I go. For example the little yellow sticky things lasted a day or 2 before covered that was almost 2 months befor things calmed down some what. Its all good 
I was planning on using happy frog from clone to harvest with botanicare’s nutrients mixed in there.
@Bunger64 I know people have AMAZING results with loving soil, but my fear is the bugs when it comes to indoor growing. This is going to be my second grow ever and I personally wouldnt know how to handle it. Once I refine the details and actually get good buds consistently each harvest I will probably try living soil down the road.
I wasn’t aware Botanicare had organic dry amendments that would definitely work out tho for ya
I get that when i switched to organics i had no type of bugs besides soil gnats lol then abput a month in i had good beneficial soil mites they then eradicated the gnats within a week or so lol the soil mites are the only beneficial ive seen but they are in the thousands lol
