True Living Organics - The Ultimate Guide to Growing All-Natural Marijuana Indoors (2012)

TDS meters are inexpensive and handy—so get one!
I use mine to check things all the time. For example, I would use it in my organic teas to measure
amounts of certain liquids I add sometimes such as CaMg+ by General Organics, which is a mineral
supplement. I will add this to my tea-making water before adding anything else, and I will add it until
my TDS meter reads 60-70 PPM, which is about 11 drops per gallon. My reverse osmosis water is
less than 10 PPM just out of the filter, and that is great for TLO growing in containers. I will check my
pure filtered water too from time to time to make sure my reverse osmosis membrane is still working
well. I recommend you get one of these if you can, because they are very handy and inexpensive.
Recycling Soil Mixes with high ratios of peat Moss
High ratios of peat moss in a bagged soil mix often work well for cannabis growing, and I have
certainly used plenty of them in the past with good success. When you are planning to recycle your
soil mix, though, you should probably reconsider these high-peat mixes and avoid them. I have
noticed that, for some reason that escapes me, the pH just wants to drop hard and fast when you
recycle this type of soil mix. I theorize that it gives the fungi a bit too much help somehow and they
tend to dominate the container soil mix, and of course whenever they take over like that they love to
drop the pH way down low. After having this problem persist and mess up a few plants I decided just
to avoid using anything with any big ratios of peat moss in it and the problem was solved.
Over Compaction and Anaerobic problems
In containers, it is especially important that you understand the whole compaction dynamic. Using a
living soil mix as we do in TLO growing, it is imperative that you grasp the whole concept of organic