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too soon. Both of these actions will end up frying the plants. Here is my tried and true soil mix for this
exact application:
MELLOW CLONE MIX
1 part bagged organic soil mix
1 part coconut coir fiber (thoroughly rinsed)
1 part small nugget-sized perlite
Try to always avoid touching new roots to bone-dry soil mixes, and don’t forget to inoculate with
some Mycorrhizal fungus and get that plant and beneficial fungus relationship up and running.
Balancing Your Soil Mix and Your Water Source
It is super important to keep the quality of your water on your mind all through your growing period.
If you are not using a pure water source for some reason, and you think your water is low enough in
dissolved minerals to be able to use, then I’ll trust your judgment. Just make sure to use carbon filters
if it is city tap water, because chloramine will devastate a living soil mix.
Say for example you want to use your city water; you have the carbon filtering all figured out, and
your water registers about 60 PPM on a TDS meter. Since most of the dissolved minerals in any city
tap or spring/well water will be calcium and magnesium, you just have to compensate for this by
tweaking the dolomite lime ratios in your TLO soil mix. Your calcium and magnesium ratios are very
important, and you need to have considerably more calcium than magnesium at all times. If you are
using spring, well, or city tap water and you are having problems it could very well revolve around
these ratios; it is not uncommon for well water or city water to be pretty high in magnesium. Too much
magnesium in your living soil mix and the whole soil structure seems to break down; the soil takes on
a real “crusty” state and becomes choked of good air flow (aeration), which is of course überimportant
for a living soil mix to have. Plants tend to die slow and horribly when magnesium levels
are too high.