Great thread. I look forward to using one of these supersoil mixes next spring. IMO you cannot beat organic soil , fresh air and natural sunshine. ....and no use of nasty toxic chems or sprays.
Here is a tried and true soil mix I've used in the past from subcool before I started to try and blend my own. Good stuff indeed. Just needs to "cook for 2-4 weeks before use for premium performance. It's not a bad idea to moisten the mix with a compost tea or with kelp while it's cooking in a garbage can or some other container. It's important for it to be slightly moist but NOT WET. If it smells bad like poo poo aerate the mix.
8 large bags of a high-quality organic potting soil with coco fiber and mycorrhizae (i.e., your base soil)
25 to 50 lbs of organic worm castings
5 lbs steamed bone meal
5 lbs Bloom bat guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
¾ cup Epson salts
½ cup sweet lime (dolomite)
½ cup azomite (trace elements)
2 tbsp powdered humic acid
Keep It Simple:
VEG:
- Roots Organic Potting Soil
- Down To Earth BioFish 7-7-2 (Ingredients: Hydrolyzed Fish, Fish Bone Meal, Feather Meal, Sulfate of Potash, Alfalfa Meal, Blood Meal, Acadian Kelp Meal and Dolomitic Lime)
- Amended with Roots Organic Earthworm Castings
- Amended with Alaskan Humisoil
- EWC TEA every feeding w/ high nitrogen guanos, kelp, aminos, Mycos, soluble silicate, Humics and Fulvics, Fish and Seaweed
Flower:
- Roots Organic Potting Soil
- Down to Earth All Purpose 4-6-2 (Fish Bone Meal, Blood Meal, Rock Phosphate, Greensand, Langbeinite, Kelp Meal, Humic Shale Ore)
- Amended with Roots Organic Earthworm Castings
- Amended with Alaskan Humisoil
- EWC TEA every feeding Fish and Seaweed, Primal Harvest Seabird Guano, kelp, aminos, Mycos, soluble silicate, Humics and Fulvics, Rock Phosphate, Pure Soluble Sulfate of Potash 0-0-50
Crush on.
turbo
Your right I believe a good general rule of thumb for most amendments is about 1-2Tbsp per gallon medium. That just happened to be a recipe I used last summer for an outdoor grow and it worked it quite well.Why just 1/2 cup of azomite???? You could use a lot more of that stuff.
Namaste :bong2:
Hi Justiceman, this is the exact recipe I'll be using for my first grow, and I had the same question as someone else about the Azomite. This is the only ingredient I haven't yet mixed in (delivery just came today), but I feel like it isn't much at all. Do you think adding more would be helpful for this mix? I can't imagine that the Azomite would cause any burn issues, as it is essentially powdered rock, but I had to order a huge bag of it directly from the company as there's no one near me that carries it.
Ok I am looking to reuse some old soil Ive had stored in my outside flower bed It is all FFOF, RO, and A-1 soil. I have about 25 cubic feet of it. It has all been used once before, and its cut with 30% chunky perlite. I am reading these recipes and they all seem like they are for brand new bags, that being said around how much more would I add (ie 2x 3x 4x?) since the soil has all been used and flushed for two weeks. Thanks for any input you guys have!
So what do you think 2 times or 3 or 4 times as much for used soil compared to new?
Thanks for all the lovely tips. I will be sure to start mixing my own organic mix.
Does anyone use pro mix bx with myco as a base? I find this to be fairly priced and a lot of it compared to the ffof and roots.
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