New Grower Happy Frog and Roots Organic question

[wheredaweedat]

off subject, but Eyes - i loooooooove your new userpic lol

 

[Eyes on Fire]

Thank ya kindly LOL! I have hundreds of trippy acid art.I LOOOVE that stuff horrifically so at times LOL!! Hop digity:RU Stoned..?: sooo perversely beautiful it hurts sometime LMFAOROTF!!

 

[Dazed]

Haaaaaa, Stay the f**k calm and brew a tea!!!

 

[wheredaweedat]

sunny747- what kinda sand are we talkin about here? lol a quick search on home depot yields many many options lol

 

[Eyes on Fire]

covering the tops of your plants is fine but can be a hassle sometimes.ask ppl whove done it several times.LOL! but play box sterile sand is your basic rule to buying sand for soil.and gnats wont be eating your roots or anything uless its really really bad right off n thats unlikely.but ofcourse possible.treat your soil with dunks and cheap gnatrol.and it'll keep em in check right nice.if that fails use a 1/2 inch layer of sterile playbox sand n then remove it after a week or so n youll have either zero or one er two running for their lives LMFAO!!especially if you use a frass addition but that more expensive

 

[Waira]

...yeah, forget the sand covering for now (for future ref': playbox sand is fine, just rinse it well),...EoF has good points too,... I hate it because it gets sloshed around when you water, and makes moisture assessment a pain,... if you have the dunks in there, that should do,...recall, it's a biological weapon, a Bacillus spp. bacteria, that wrecks their guts when ingested,... it's a preventative measure at this stage, not a full on extermination run!....
...blending the soils is fine, but before anything, make damn sure you have a read on both soils' pH's (I saw at your home thread A4's advise),... In any case, I'd add some dolomite for longer-tern control and nute' input,.... finer grain size, the better! Several companies make so-called faster acting limes as well, readily available,...

 

[Tom Bombadil]

In my opinion, if you have to fuss over PH when working with soil, youre doing it wrong.