Soil Easy Super Soil Recipe for Cannabis Growing recipe question?

[Sideways Onion]

Good day to all,

I am new here and want to say hullo and thanks to all who take the time to share their info and at the same time I need some help.
I grow organically outdoors on the Southern tip of Africa over looking the Atlantic Ocean, I predominantly grow Sativas at the moment I have some Jazz Plant and Durban Poison and I have 1 x Badazz Cookie OG (70% Indica) growing in 200ltr bags. I have always mixed my own soil and wanted to try the Easy Super Soil Recipe which is on the Grow FAQ section by TcH.

The Help I need is ....... what is the volume of 1 part in the below recipe? Apologies if I'm completely missing something.

If anyone out there has a organic soil recipe they have cooked up please let me hear it.

• 1 part high-quality compost
• 1 part peat moss
• 1 part perlite
• 1 part vermiculite
• 1/2 cup bone meal
• 1/2 cup blood meal
• 1/2 cup fish meal
• 1/2 cup kelp meal
• 1/2 cup alfalfa meal
• 1 tablespoon Epsom salt
• 1 tablespoon dolomite lime

Thanks in advance.

Below is a pic of some of my plants, Jazz Plants by Christiania Seedbank on the left and a Badazz Cookie OG by Seedsman on the right, under the African sun.



Sideways

 

[Tracker]

• 1 part high-quality compost
• 1 part peat moss
• 1 part perlite
• 1 part vermiculite
• 1/2 cup bone meal
• 1/2 cup blood meal
• 1/2 cup fish meal
• 1/2 cup kelp meal
• 1/2 cup alfalfa meal
• 1 tablespoon Epsom salt
• 1 tablespoon dolomite lime

Welcome to FC. That's a wonderful garden.

Based on other recipes I see around, I would guess "part" in this recipe means "gallon".

So if the top 4 items with "part" quantities are the base substrate, you have 4 gallons of base with 2.5 cups of amendments.

I could be totally wrong though, so research around more.

 

[Sideways Onion]

Thanks for the welcome and repose Tracker,

I have sent ThC who posted the article to the Grow FAQ section a message asking that million dollar question.

 

[Joedracer79]

Good day to all,

I am new here and want to say hullo and thanks to all who take the time to share their info and at the same time I need some help.
I grow organically outdoors on the Southern tip of Africa over looking the Atlantic Ocean, I predominantly grow Sativas at the moment I have some Jazz Plant and Durban Poison and I have 1 x Badazz Cookie OG (70% Indica) growing in 200ltr bags. I have always mixed my own soil and wanted to try the Easy Super Soil Recipe which is on the Grow FAQ section by TcH.

The Help I need is ....... what is the volume of 1 part in the below recipe? Apologies if I'm completely missing something.

If anyone out there has a organic soil recipe they have cooked up please let me hear it.

• 1 part high-quality compost
• 1 part peat moss
• 1 part perlite
• 1 part vermiculite
• 1/2 cup bone meal
• 1/2 cup blood meal
• 1/2 cup fish meal
• 1/2 cup kelp meal
• 1/2 cup alfalfa meal
• 1 tablespoon Epsom salt
• 1 tablespoon dolomite lime

Thanks in advance.

Below is a pic of 1 of my plants Jazz Plants by Christiania Seedbank on the left and a Badazz Cookie OG by Seedsman on the right, under the African sun.

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Sideways

welcome to the site .

 

[trader]

40 liter soil
6 liter perlite
6 liter worm manure
100 gram Azomite

 

[Monst3rBean]

I've been a longtime fan of Subcools super soil 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

 

[Sideways Onion]

I've been a longtime fan of Subcools super soil 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

In the early days years ago I started making a mix close to Subs mix. I can't get Bat Guano or Azomite, so I substitute, I reuse my soil year after year, if I remember correctly Sub did not do that he remade a new mix every grow or year. That's not really sustainable the way I see it. I also believe through watching my grows over the years that organic soil gets better over time, so topping up and replenishment after a grow is all I do.
That said my mix is similar but in addition I use, my own organic compost, my own organic worm castings, Perlite, Vermiculite, my own wood ash, my own inoculated biochar, sea weed/kelp I collect from the beach in front of my land, and malted barley amongst other crazy organic additives.
I am trying to make a soil that is totally complete, where all I need to do at most is top dress before flower with compost, and EWC. I make EWC teas, compost teas and water with water that runs from the mountain behind my place.

I want to run a test next grow by using the easy super soil mix I got from the Grow FAQ section of this site and see how it performs, so wanted to know what 1 part equal to in volume.

 

[Tracker]

malted barley

I've heard good things about adding malted barley and also alfalfa.

 

[Sideways Onion]

Yes I use Malted Barley and Alfalfa. We call Alfalfa - Lucerne.

 

[LunchBox420]

One of the best resources in living soil is Clackamas Coots: https://clackamascoots.com/blogs/news/coots-soil-recipe-coots-nutes

The easiest way to get all of the amendments in one place is build a soil craft blend.

 

[Sideways Onion]

LB420,
I don't live in North America so have no access to build soil craft blend, and they want $3.3k for a Yard, that's crazy money for an outdoor organic grower from Africa. But thanks for the thought.

 

[LunchBox420]

LB420,
I don't live in North America so have no access to build soil craft blend, and they want $3.3k for a Yard, that's crazy money for an outdoor organic grower from Africa. But thanks for the thought.

Did not realize you were in Africa. Still, I would recommend the studying Clackamas Coots, you will understand why each item is added, and what you can replace it with if it’s unavailable. You can pretty easily make craft blend yourself, they give you all of the ingredients and ratios. The hardest part is sourcing some of the ingredients.

Going back to your original question, recipes for amendments are generally for one cubic foot of soil, in the US.

The soil is made up of three parts (your recipe was heavy on the aeration). Your organic matter is the compost. Your neutral carbon that can hold water is peet Moss, you can use Coco coir if peet moss is hard to source, instead, if you have plenty of time and access to deciduous trees, you can make your own leaf mold. The last third is aeration, and can be made of a combination of many different things. For no till living soil, people have been moving away from perlite because it will float in the soil, maybe vermiculite too. The current recommendation is 50% rice hulls, and 50% pumice or lava rock.

So if you used one cubic foot of each main soil component, then you would add 1.5 cups of each of the first five amendments.

When making soil from scratch with craft blend, you add four cups per cubic foot, but there are a lot more ingredients to that.

 

[Sideways Onion]

LB420,
I got this soil recipe from the Grow FAQ section on this site, so was interested in what made up 1 part. Thank you for that explanation and info.

 

[Viumeard]

I mix up a simple batch using good compost, worm castings, aeration like pumice, and a balanced dry amendment blend, then let it cook a few weeks so it doesn’t burn the plants. In your coastal spot, a bit more aeration helps with moisture. Sometimes I glance at things like amber delta 8 distillate reviews just to compare how carefully folks test their products, and it reminds me to stick with clean, trusted inputs for soil too.

 

[umixe929]

The key to a good super soil is letting it "cook" for at least 30 to 60 days before you plant anything in it. If you use it right away, the microbial activity is too intense and the nutrient levels are too hot, which will fry your seedlings. Focus on a solid base of high-quality compost and worm castings as your engine.