HELP WITH SOIL plz!

A quick and easy soil mix would require:

# 5 parts soil.
Normal commercial potting soil should be fine.

# 5 parts perlite.
This enhances aeration of the soil-mix, helps prevent over-watering by increasing drainage and reduces soil compaction. Perlite can be replaced with coarse vermiculite or crushed expanded clay balls (mica, leca, geolite).

Optional:
# 2 parts composted organic matter. This can be normal household compost. If you can find composted worm castings, seaweed or composted manures (chicken, horse) they can also be used for extra kick. Non-composted manures make the soil-mix too 'hot' for the plants and should be avoided.

Easily make the best for you MG germination mix and equal parts perlite

any cheap, NEUTRAL potting mix. since you are going to control ferts, don't buy hot soil. save your ducats. when ppl use fert'd soil and feed it gets tricky, imo. either hot soil, and no ferts, or neutral soil and ferts. that's just my take on soil growing.

yes neutral is best for germination, i use jiffys

Stick with the fox farm Ocean Forest and just add perlite. It already comes with all the stuff mentioned above. It's tried and true!

Don't experiment with your plants!

Don't make up a hodge podge witches brew of soil based on old wives tails.


After your build your growing skills, switch to Promix.


Walk before you run and happy growing!

thanks for the reply, could u refer me to a certain brand of soil?

thanks for the reply, i was going towards the fox farm and perlite, its recommended by everyone,
using this mix how long will i need to wait to start feeding?

Bio-bizz all mix thats what i use for my autos, has perlite and nutes already mixed makes things very simple as you dont have to think about nutes until week 3, and then i go with big bud bloom then flip to a boost, brings me good results.
good luck. sealegs