Whats the best soil?

[beensmokin420]

I'm looking in to start a closet grow but I cant decide what soil mix to get.

I dont want to have to mix a bunch of stuff I just wanna be able to pour it in the pot , plant the seed, and grow it. So if there is a good soil mix you know of like this please help.

Hows this mix? - Pro-Mix BX, 3.8CF Compressed-Greenhouses, Greenhouse Supplies, Commercial Greenhouses, Green Houses Plan, Green House Supply at the Greenhouse Mega Store

 

[Akornpatch]

Fox Farms Ocean Forest is great right out of the bag!

Many here swear by the ProMix...but it has to be amended with guano, worm castings, and or blood/bone meal, and maybe lime.

 

[Akornpatch]

Here's a recipe I have in my archives.

Vic High (BCGA) suggests his Super Soil mix:

Original recipe:

1 Bale Sunshine mix #2 or ProMix
2 L Bone Meal - phosphorus source
1 L Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolomite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
1/2 - 1 bag chicken manure (steer, mushroom, etc) - nitrogen & trace elements
Mix thoroughly, moisten, and let sit 1-2 weeks before use.

Revised recipe - after several failures due to bad manure sources, I now use the following recipe. Results have been excellent and the clones seem to take off right away instead of having a slow growing settling in period.

1 Bale sunshine mix #2 or promix (3.8 cu ft)
8 cups Bone Meal - phosphorus source
4 cups Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolmite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
4 cups kelp meal.
9kg (25 lbs) bag pure worm castings

Mix thoroughly, moisten, and let sit 1-2 weeks before use.

Substitutions - The original recipe was a success, but I simply needed to experiment. In addition, sometimes not all ingredients were always available. Therefore, here are some possible additions and/or substitutions.

Descriptions to follow:

Blood & Bone Meal - when trying to cut costs
Kelp Meal - contains over 62 trace minerals. Good supplement for manure or for reducing the manure content to speed up availability of soil.
Worm castings - excellent source of micro nutrients
Bat guano - excellent for top dressing a week into flowering
Seabird guano

 

[beensmokin420]

Here's a recipe I have in my archives.

Vic High (BCGA) suggests his Super Soil mix:

Original recipe:

1 Bale Sunshine mix #2 or ProMix
2 L Bone Meal - phosphorus source
1 L Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolomite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
1/2 - 1 bag chicken manure (steer, mushroom, etc) - nitrogen & trace elements
Mix thoroughly, moisten, and let sit 1-2 weeks before use.

Revised recipe - after several failures due to bad manure sources, I now use the following recipe. Results have been excellent and the clones seem to take off right away instead of having a slow growing settling in period.

1 Bale sunshine mix #2 or promix (3.8 cu ft)
8 cups Bone Meal - phosphorus source
4 cups Blood Meal - nitrogen source
1 1/3 cups Epsom salts - magnesium source
3-4 cups dolmite lime -calcium source & pH buffering
1 tsp fritted trace elements
4 cups kelp meal.
9kg (25 lbs) bag pure worm castings

Mix thoroughly, moisten, and let sit 1-2 weeks before use.

Substitutions - The original recipe was a success, but I simply needed to experiment. In addition, sometimes not all ingredients were always available. Therefore, here are some possible additions and/or substitutions.

Descriptions to follow:

Blood & Bone Meal - when trying to cut costs
Kelp Meal - contains over 62 trace minerals. Good supplement for manure or for reducing the manure content to speed up availability of soil.
Worm castings - excellent source of micro nutrients
Bat guano - excellent for top dressing a week into flowering
Seabird guano

Thanks alot for this but i'm gonna go with the fox farm, i'm an amateur grower and thats just to complicated for me. The "right out tha bag" is more my style. THANKS FOR THE SUGGESTIONS

 

[StonerGrower]

like everyone said fox farms ocean forest..THE END

 

[beensmokin420]

Thank you all, FOX FARMS it is. Maybe i'll start a journal when i get going