Terra Professional Soil
Canna Terra Proffessional product details:
Your favourite plants grow best in a good nitrogen-rich soil and Canna Terra Professional provides just such a growing medium. It contains a blend of soil, compost, perlite, worm castings and a special 'plant booster' consisting of blended organic ingredients. If you are going to grow in soil, Canna Terra Professional is the best basic soil on the market.High value organic ingredients like peat moss and tree bark are components of Terra Professional. These have the effect of promoting exceptional rootzone development and the formation of sturdier and thicker stems, while increased metabolism ensures an exceptional harvest.
Canna Terra Professional 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 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 soil we would recomend using the excellent Canna Terra Vega and Terra Flores as they are perfectly balanced for use on this soil. A few points to keep in mind when growing with Canna Terra Professional 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.
