Trying to replicate Potting Soil / Soilless Mix Best Recipe

I am trying to replicate Potting Soil / Soilless Mix based on the Best Recipe I can find. Just for comparison,
I have FFOF for $18.50 for 2 CF
I have FFHF for $14.00 for 2CF

I have Jorge Cervantes Recipe (not including any organic soil amendments) as:

1) 5 Parts Coco Peat
2) 1 Part Perlite
3) 2 Parts Worm Castings
4) 1/2 Unit Clay Pellets
5) Couple Tablespoons of Mineral Magic / Trichoderma

His units were normal shovel fulls, so this would make about 2CF I would say.

I would like to create the cheapest and organic recipe Using Sphagnum Peat Moss I got for $10 for 2CF. So help me combine the best ingredients from the organic recipe to Jorge Cervantes' easy recipe to get started so we can have one recognized recipe for Fox Farms Ocean Forest or Happy Frog mixes (you can post which mix your recipe is tailored to). I know we will have a hundred different recipes, but what I am asking for is using the cheapest/(most widely) ingredients available, to create the closest thing to FFOF, or the nearest equivalent to the best organic recipe. I know there are different ideas of "Best Organic" so this does not include Veganic really, if a chemical or animal byproduct works best given the "cheap" / (easily available) Criteria. This mix should also be the best mix for transplaning clones to their 1 to 2 gallon Veg pots. You may post a mix you use for flowering also, but just state, "This is the best mix I have found for Flowering."

So feel free to post your recipe, and approx. 2CF cost (can be round numbers for simplicity) so we can compare creating as good potting soil as the pros.


STARTER MIX BASE: Sphagnum Peat Moss I got for $10 for 2CF

I may get Earthworms Castings free (Lots of bait shops in the area might just get from vegetable garden). Say $10 for gas or to order.

and like 20# bag of Composted Chicken Guano for $9 (will do research as to whether this matches Seabird /Bat Guano for the N/P benefit to soil.

I still need Perlite, I think that is $10 per CF

And also may need Clay Pellets for moisture ret / Drainage?

I also got a 40# bag of Peat Humus for $1 (Not sure whether to add this, might just use on vegetable garden).

Free access to Cow Manure/Molasses for planned Compost tea.

I have an organic recipe to add soil amendments to One Gallon Coco/SPhagnum Peat Moss as:

To one gallon Coco/Coir or Peat Moss add:


1 tsp 1)Bat Guano


5 Cups 2)Earthworm Castings


1 tsp 3)Kelp Meal


2 top 4)Bone Meal


1 Tbsp 5)Marine Cuisine and/or Fruit & Flower


1 tsp 6)Plant Success


2 Tbsp 7)Blood Meal


4 Cups of Perlite for drainage/roots

Now gonna go light up One Good Spliff while I think about cheap way to make FFOF

here man, no offence but fox farms is not gonna out proform straight coco w a 1"-2" layer of straight coco. put two plants right next to eachother and see the diff. and um take about cheaper! 25 for the coco and 5 for the pearlight. And suse you HAVE to use GEOPOTS, theyll kick any plastic pots ass any day of the year. 5 gal geo, 1/3 coco, the layer of pearlight, rest coco. once the roots get to the pearlight its like being put into a hydro system. trust, its amazing the root results... and thats w plain old bonnaicare... Come over to the colorado paitents and shows us your results. its the " post your oiccs here section."