Opinions on my soil?

Hey guys!

This is the first year I will be attempting a 'water only' soil mixture.

I was hoping to get some opinions on it. I'd like to keep it simple, so if any of this stuff is unnecessary or im using the wrong amount, feel free to chime in.

The plan is to mix the potting soil- 2 1.5 bags of fox farm ocean forrest
2 1.5 bags roots original or organic
2 bags of fox farm lite warrior or happy frog
1.5 cubic feet perlite
7 lbs earth worm castings
5 cups dolomite lime for ph
1 cup azomite trace elements
.5 lb blood meal
Great white to activate soil
carnivor nematoads to kill bugs and mold in the soil
some organic rice to feed algea and add silica
mix well and let sit for at least 3 weeks
makes about 90 gallons.

I will use 20 of those gallons to fill my 1 gal 'veg' air pots.

I will then take 30 of the remaining gallons to mix the flowering soil-
combine 30 gal 'veg' soil with
7 lbs additional earth worm castings
1 lb steamed bone meal
1 lb bloom bat guano
.5 lb additional blood meal
1/2 lb rock phosphate
mix. let sit till veg plants are about flowering, then mix 5 gal pots about 1/3rd with flowering soil, a buffer layer of fresh veg soil, and transplant the 1 gal.


I've planted this strain in straight ffof before, so im not worried about burning, and added some lite warrior to the mix just incase.
and the ffof vs roots war rages on, so I figure mix them = best of both worlds

and I know i look like im skimping on perlite, but those airpots really do reduce the need for it

-What do you guys think?
-would this likely work for water only (except maybe a few teas here and there)?
-should I reduce the ingredients in the veg soil (like the bloodmeal and azomite) since i know the soil will carry them through the whole veg?
-anything I could do without?
-anything I should DEFINITELY add?
-anything i should do less or more of?
-if I let the flowering soil cook for that long am I more likely to see insect problems?


Thanks guys. opinions/advice are greatly appreciated.

It's a complicated brew there. I'd try it first by making a small sample (20-40 lb. or enough to grow out a plant) first before I'd go big scale. I did a soil mix once and it didn't works as I thought it would. Lucky I only did a small batch.

The idea is essentially to fortify my potting mix, then 'supersoil' a portion of it for flowering.. so I dont consider it any more complicated then a conventional super soil.

Your opinion and experience is noted though. I'm not adverse to the idea of canning the roots organic and using the ewc and bloodmeal in JUST the supersoil if that's going to be the consensus.

thanks man. +like

Looks pretty good. Are you planning on recycling this soil? If so, I'd get some rock dusts in to the mix. Also, the great white should be applied directly to the root zone when you transplant. Inoculating your soil with it won't accomplish much of anything.

I'm only speculating here, but I don't know if you will need all of that lime with FF soils. Take a gander at the labels, but I would have to imagine that they have taken it upon themselves to properly ph the soil.

Good luck

I do plan on recycling, so good thinking, I will add some stone dust what would be a good amount per gallon?

and wouldn't inoculating with great white help feed and establish a soilweb during the 'cooking' process?

also, the peat does tend to break down and go acidic in ocean forest, so yes I do plan to need dolomite lime. It comes with crushed oyster or clam shell, but that doesn't seem to hold through the whole flowering stage.

My recipe was figured using one TBSP per gallon of soil. Is that overkill?

thanks for the response man.