Getting Started Growing Cannabis – Part 2: Planting Germinated Seeds

The most important thing to remember when planting your seeds is the SOIL you plant them into. I can’t stress this enough. Assuming you have quality seeds with good DNA, your soil is the most important part of your plant growing vigorously and healthy.

In fact, you can actually create soil very easily and cheaply that will protect your plant from insects and disease while also growing as large as possible.

I RECOMMEND CREATING A SOIL THAT CREATES HEALTHY MICROBES. Organic soil can create bigger and better quality buds than any store-bought fertilizer that will only burn your plants and eventually cause a nutrient lockout.

If your soil doesn’t prevent a nutrient lockout, your plants will eventually stop taking in nutrients and die off by burning to death. Like people, plants are what they eat. Treat your plants like princesses. Give them love and organic soil.

Microbes are actually a bacteria or fungus that is great for your roots. This will protect your plants from disease, pests, and nute lockout. Organic soil will actually create good microbes that will have the job of making your roots healthier every day they are alive in your soil.

Make those microbes even happier and feed them throughout your plant’s life cycle. Every time you water your plants – use a foliar spray during the seedling and vegetation stage of your cannabis plants. Use organic soil additives to mix with your soil before you pot your plants. Use organic soil amendments to scratch into the surface of your topsoil during the plant’s life cycle also.

Here is the biggest reason any cannabis grower will use organics over chemical soil and fertilizer. Let’s say the place you got your seeds from lists your seeds to grow at 25% THC. You will almost never get close to that number using chemicals to fertilize your plants. But using organics can even get you over that number of 25% THC. This is because the growers you are buying the seeds from – are using ONLY organics to grow them. So, it’s in the plant’s DNA to take up only natural ingredients.

Giving your plant chemicals instead of the natural ingredients they crave – will only make them suffer from disease and other issues throughout your plant’s grow cycle. Take my expert advice. Don’t waste your time or money on anything but organics. Organic products are MUCH CHEAPER than chemical products anyway.

Here is the recipe for the best organic soil with Mycorrhizal or Mycorrhizae microbes.

This recipe is for 1-gallon pots. Please adjust accordingly to the size of your pot. A 1-gallon pot is a great starter pot. You’ll be transplanting your plants to bigger pots later.

• Fox Farms Soil – Happy Frog. “No substitutes”.
• Organic Worm Castings – No particular brand. But be sure they are organic.
• Biochar – I use Wakefield, Compost Hero Biochar Blend. You can buy it on Amazon or their website.

Mixing The soil with your additives-

• Fill a 1-gallon pot about 3 quarters of the way with Fox Farms Happy Frog soil.
• Top the soil with about 2 cups of organic worm castings.
• Top the pot off with 2 cups of biochar.
• Mix well. I can’t stress this enough. I usually spend 4 or 5 minutes mixing.

USE A FOLIAR SPRAY RIGHT AWAY. It’s ok to use an organic foliar spray right away to wake up the microbes in the soil. As long as your foliar stray is organic, it can be used throughout your plant’s entire life cycle. Your foliar spray should be used to water your soil as well as your plant and leaves. You can use a separate spray if you like. I like to make things easier.

My recipe for a foliar spray you can use through your plant’s entire life cycle.

• Organic Worm Casting, Bokashi Tea, or compost starter. I use 2 teaspoons per gallon of water. The brand I use is Bloom City, Organic Worm Team Concentrate.
• Microbial Colonization Enhancer/Supplement. I use 1 teaspoon per gallon of water during the seedling stage (2 weeks). The brand I use is BotaniCare, Liquid Karma.
• Mix well, both of the above ingredients into 1 gallon of water.
• Use a sprayer to apply this mix to your soil and plants every time you water.

Important note: USE CLOTH POTS FOR GROWING CANNABIS. Don’t use a plastic pot for cannabis. There are too many hazards by using plastic pots.

Poke a hole in the middle of the pot with your pointer finger, as deep as the first knuckle. About 1/2 to 3/4 inch deep. Don’t go deeper.

Drop the seed in the hole. Make sure that the whitetail of the seed is facing down.

Cover the hole with soil by sifting it into the hole. Do not press or compact the soil.

Water the soil in the pot (with the above foliar spray to activate your microbes) until the water starts to drip out the bottom about 20% of the water you add. You want to make sure you have a 20% overdrip of the water you add each time you water your plant.

Okay come back tomorrow and learn how to keep your plants healthy through their seedling stage.