Terra Professional Plus Soil
Canna Terra Professional Plus product details:
Canna Terra Professional Plus is a special soil formation created by Canna to be the purest possible soil mix available. The formulation is specifically for indoor, growing situations. Canna Terra professional plus is an advanced mix of Terra professional that incorporates better aeration properties and additional nutrient elements.Exclusive, high value organic ingredients such as peat moss and types of bark that have an antiseptic action are included in Terra Professional and Terra Professional Plus. These have the direct result of promoting exceptional root growth and the formation of thicker, more vigorous stems and branches, while better metabolism ensures an increased yield.
Canna Terra Professional plus is a very versatile soil as it comes only lightly fertilized with an EC of 1.2 and because it has a complete nutrient feeding schedule available in the form of the Canna Terra range of nutrients. Terra professional plus is not a 100% organic soil and neither are their nutrients (although they contain some nice organic components).
Canna Terra Professional usage:
For specific feeding advice please refer to the product pages of the nutrients you are using. If using Canna Professional plus soil we would recomend using the excellent Canna Terra Vega and Terra Flores nutrients as they are perfectly balanced for use on this soil. A few points to keep in mind when growing with Canna Terra Professional plus or soil in general are:- In soil growing PH should be around 6.5 as opposed to the lower levels of around 5.8<=>6.2 used in hydroponics.
- When feeding in soil always achive 10<=>20% runoff. Runoff is the term for the water that comes out of the bottom of the pot in feeding.
- In soil plants are less tolerant to high nutrient levels. The soil comes with an EC of 1.2 which is perfect for initial planting of small plants so for the first week or two you could feed with just ph adjusted (if necessary) water. As time goes on the nutrients present in the soil will get used up and washed away in feeding so you then begin to compensate by adding nutrients to your water when feeding. Slowly increase your EC as your plants develop so that in full growth the EC is around 1.6. If plants are exceptionally healthy you could try a slightly higher EC but in our experience anything too close to EC 2.0 can be quite toxic for soil grown plants.
HINT: Warning signs to watch out for in soil are the tips of leaves burning (going light brown/white) and dying off. This is a sure sign of toxic over-feeding which is easily done in soil. To rectify this problem simply mix a fresh batch of nutrients at half strength and improvement should be seen in 5-7 days. Burnt leaves will not recover but the new growth will be healthy. You then need to ease up the strength of your nutrient with each feeding and try to work out how much your plants can tolerate.
Ideally you would acquire a Bluelabs Nutrient Truncheon to measure the EC of the run off that comes through your pots in feeding, this would give you a true picture of the combined strength of the nutrients in your soil and your nutrient feeding program.
