soils - what do you think?

Thinking of a top soil and peat mix 50/50 or what about top soil and coco or top soil and perlite Would these work for soil grows? for indoor growing

You could use a composted manure/compost/potting soil mix (30-30-40) if you have access to these ingredients. Should probably be the simplest possible soil to use and it doesn't need additional nutrients. Although it could use a tea like a couple of times per month, but it could probably do even without that.

An organic soil like this one would require to be a bit more moist than a soil used for an added-nutrients grow. Also you can't use inorganic nutrients (eg liquid fertilizers) cause they would probably harm the microbial populations of an organic soil. The good thing about organic soils though, is that they're pretty much plug and play - you don't have to fertilize them and you can re-use them using no till.

https://www.rollitup.org/blogs/blog30374-lets-build-no-till-soil.html

https://www.rollitup.org/organics/636057-recycled-organic-living-soil-rols.html


If, however, you want to do a liquid ferts grow, I hear good things about all-perlite grows, aka "hempy". I can't tell you much about it since I never used it.

IMO go organic. There are many commercial brands on the market n all are pretty good. I personally like roots organic 707 and cut it with pro mix since 707 by itself is pretty hot with nutrients

use RO (distilled) water the microbes thrive (note: chlorine in tap water kills microbes)n u barely have to ever feed organic/vganic nutrients. I only feed once or twice veg and again in flower.

Also invest in a inexpensive soil NPK test kit (like rapitest $13 on ebay) n test ur soil once every couple weeks n u'll take the guess work out of what she needs and doesn't.

THANKS FOR THE INFO the 30-30-40 sounds worth trying but using ph perfect nutrients from advanced

The pro mix cost is ? I believe that I reconize the roots organic 707 in a catalouge, Again thanks for the info. What is your % of 707 and pro mix?

I mix up cheap potting soil (no nutes), perlite, vermiculite, and peat moss. I get them all in bulk for cheap from a garden/farm store. I add in 2T/gal of dolomite lime. Seems to work great and I can control the nutes. I also pH everything going in to 6.5.

Good luck!

Thanks sounds good , I use "PH" perfect nutrients and am thinking about top soil/peat/compost/manure/vermicli When I uesd top soil/manure it deemed that plants did not grow as much as when I used peat,ect, generallly the stalks were large but with top/manure they were small/medium size, really about 1/2 the size Maybe perlite sgoild be added for drainage?

Here is my recipe..

Bag of this: Roots Organics Potting Soil 1.5 cu. ft per plant (transplant from 1gal, 3gal, 5 gal adding fresh soil every time)



Cook the soil for 30 days in a plastic container with tap water and then add to the plants (do not use on seedlings).



Add water and light until harvest.



See all the details from start to finish in my SGS160 LED grow link at signature. Good luck.