what's you'r mix? soils.

ok so im using 30lbs of
ro-mix mycorrnizae growing medium.
ingredients:sphangnum peat moss,perlite horticulture grade,vermiculite hord grade,dolomitic and calcitic limestone (ph adjuster)
:espoma organic blood meal 1.6 lbs
:espoma organc bone meal 2.3 lbs
jamaician bat guano 2 1/2 cups
just transplanted 13 plants about 3-4 inches tall into this mix and tomarrow 17 2-3 ft.tall flowering plants because the pots there in are about 5 inch pots into 5 all buckets.

also what are some hydroponics what is some beneficial bacteria that i could add to my system?
????Whats you mix and any suggestions????

mine for this year

3cuft pro mix bx
1.5 cuft ff happy frog
2 large blocks of coir
4 8ct bags or mg organic choice

2 16oz containers of activated carbon
1 4lb bag espoma biotone starter
2 bags of worm castings
2 cups azomite
2 bags bone meal
3 bags blood meal
4lbs kelp meal

sure im forgetting something ... anyway I let it cook for 6-8 months before use the carbon holds some of the nitrogen for slow release if your wondering also provides a home for some of the microbes

should i be useing more bat guano,bone and blood meal? 2.3 and 1.6 lbs and 2 1/2 cups"batt shiz" for 30lbs of mix seemed a little on the light side..

I'm not sure how many cubic feet is 30lbs of soil, it also depends on you style of growing and the age of your plants. I don't plan on feeding much everything they need is already in the mix all I will need to do is water for the most part until flower. my mix is about 10 cubic foot approx. 80 gallons of soil.

Base Soil

1/3 Sphagnum Peat from Premier Peat or Alaska Peat
1/3 Aeration material (pumice)
1/3 EWC

Per Cubic Foot of the Base Soil:

3 cup Charcoal (activated)
4 cups Rock Powders (4X Glacial, 1X Bentonite, 1X Oyster Shell, 1X Basalt)

½ Cup Neem Meal (2 g / L)
1 Cup Crab Shell Meal
2 Cups Kelp Meal
2 Cups Fish Meal
2 Cups Fish Bone Meal
1 Cup Sul-Po-Mag
½ Cup Alfalfa

1/2 cup this 3 part lime mix:

1 part powdered dolomite lime
1 part agricultural gypsum
2 parts powdered oyster shell


1 cubic foot = 7.5 gallons.

Moisten with Fresh Aloe (2 Tbs Juice with 1 gallon water) and Accelerant Tea (Comfrey, Yarrow, Horsetail or Nettle)

I pre-inoculate with BTI and Nematodes.

Let this rest for 4 weeks.

Sounds like a heavy mix Rrog.

2 + TBS of each amendment per gallon! (especially the crab, fish, and fish bone)

That looks solid for a really heavy feeder, but for most of my plants, 1 TBS per gallon of mix works well.

The amount of rock dust you are suggesting is good in my book, just seems like lots of fast acting nitrogen with many slower acting rock dusts.

Based off experiance, 1/2-1 tbs of Alfalfa per gallon of mix, can supply all the nitrogen needed in a 12-14 week cycle.

Outdoors though, your mix would rock, and the plant would be able to use all that goodness.

The above mix is to be recycled as amended.

Here's the mix I built up over a month ago. Got 40 gallons of it mixed and wet down (won't be needed for another couple weeks).


Base Mix:
- Equal parts Alaska Peat, Perlite (wide range of particle sizes), and worm castings (home made supplemented with some from a local worm farm). I also added some Alaskan Humus at about 5% or so for a little extra diversity.


Nitrogen Sources:
- Crab Meal -- 0.5 TBSP/gal
- Alfalfa Meal -- 0.5 TBSP/gal
- Neem Seed Meal -- 0.5 TBSP/gal


Phosphorus Source:
- Fish Bone Meal --2 TBSP/gal


Potassium, micronutrients, etc:
- Kelp Meal -- 1.5 TBSP/gal


Rock Dusts, Minerals, etc:
- Powdered Dolomite Lime -- 2 TBSP/gal
- Azomite -- 2 TBSP/gal
- Soft Rock Phosphate -- 1 TBSP/gal


There you have it! I think it's going to work wonderfully.

I will be supplementing with a top dress here, a tea there, etc, as needed. Also, this soil will be reammended, recomposted, and reused for a long, long time.

Rrog - Are you layering that in the pot with some base mix, Sub soil style? Or using it full strength?

I also remixed a batch. just kinda guessed as usual.

started with 8-9 cu ft used roots organics
.75 cu ft of EWC
2 cu ft perlite
9-10 shovels of compost
3/4 c rice
3/4 c oats
4 oz. humic acid
1/4 c alfalfa meal
2 c kelp meal
1 1/2 c fish bone meal
1 c budswel
1 1/2 c greensand
1 1/2 c prilled lime
2 c azomite made about 80 gallons/10 cu ft , will cook 4 weeks


I hope it treats me well, I have some Irukanji, Ghost Train Haze#2, and 2 SSH phenos that will go in this mix when it finishes

Spice- After 4-5 weeks, it's used as-is.

Nice... Guessing you don't need to supplement much with that mix.

You keep amending because you're stocking up for the next plant.

Rrog, how often do you add amendments? And at the same ratio as the initial batch?

IMO, the best way to recycle soil is to do a full out compost of it all, with fresh green waste (grass/clover) and rock dusts, guanos, kelp, charcoal, ash and peat moss added in layers, sprayed with EWC tea. The whole pile then being covered with peat.

This will allow the mix to actually cook, break down and re innoculate with benificals we all seek.

After my pile cools I shovel it into bins, layering in chunks of worm egg laden bedding from my worm bin, add the Biodynamic compost preps and then let the bins chill for a few months.

The resulting soil is BLACK GOLD, swimming with worms, microbes and Cosmic energy.

Rrog said:

Base Soil

1/3 Sphagnum Peat from Premier Peat or Alaska Peat
1/3 Aeration material (pumice)
1/3 EWC

Per Cubic Foot of the Base Soil:

3 cup Charcoal (activated)
4 cups Rock Powders (4X Glacial, 1X Bentonite, 1X Oyster Shell, 1X Basalt)

½ Cup Neem Meal (2 g / L)
1 Cup Crab Shell Meal
2 Cups Kelp Meal
2 Cups Fish Meal
2 Cups Fish Bone Meal
1 Cup Sul-Po-Mag
½ Cup Alfalfa

1/2 cup this 3 part lime mix:

1 part powdered dolomite lime
1 part agricultural gypsum
2 parts powdered oyster shell


1 cubic foot = 7.5 gallons.

Moisten with Fresh Aloe (2 Tbs Juice with 1 gallon water) and Accelerant Tea (Comfrey, Yarrow, Horsetail or Nettle)

I pre-inoculate with BTI and Nematodes.

Let this rest for 4 weeks.

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My nigga..I'm not even gonna bother regurgitating the above. Your terpines are phenomenal with the langenbenite I bet . Only thing I do differently is PBH for silica and innoculated ceramic powder for higher feldspars.

I have Agsil 16 for Silica.

The recycling that I'm going for is no-till. I'm not disturbing the microbe universe - A Matrix- that the plant already created. Instead of destroying the matrix when one plant is done, I'm planting a new seedling right in. Capitalize on the microbe organization rather than starting from scratch. No-Till

Roots Organics 707 Mix.

my soil recipe is pretty basic compared to you guys lol

1 bag fox farm happy frog
1/2 bag black gold perilite
few scoops of worm castings from the ole vermi bin
1/2 a 4lb bag of espoma garden tone
2 cups espoma garden lime

done deal. works great

Well a lot of the ingredients are in the Fox Farm.