How Much do you Spend on Soil

Okay so im in the planning stages for my 2012 grow

I am trying to decide if i want to go fully organic? Subcools supersoil? Imitation supersoil?

Or maybe the same thing i did last year, I yielded a pound per plant of some absolute fire

I used Fox Farms TB and BB last year along with some basic soil amendments


I was looking at supersoil ingredients and with a 3x3 hole it would cost over $200 per hole

I plan on doing 10 plants so thats alot of money

I also am slightly worried that my first try at organic will not yield well


I spent $300-$400 total on soil, amendments, and nutes for my 4 plants last year and they grew awesome

So should i change up my soil and nutes? or do the same as last year since it worked so well?



So what soil, amendments, and nutes do you use? And how much do you spend?

Fully organic? Fully synthetic? Partially organic?


Can someone please tell me that im just over-thinking it and i should just stick with what worked last year please!

My thread has a list of a silly number of nutrients I have bought over the years. I settled on house and garden nutrients, they work for me. I now supplement them with a little bio bizz to add flavour.

I would do the same again and maybe take an element or two from the organics and add it Maybe some bat poop or some kelp its really up to you, but if it aint broke dont fix it.

and I spend £14 for 50 litres of soil I use half and half all mix and gold label special mix.

not too much....lol. i'm as tight as a crab's ass. broke. but happy. i keep a stock of amendments; epsoms, greensand, azomite, humic, kelp, etc, when i have some loot, and then just buy peat and perlite as needed. i compost, and i keep worms.

I spent 10pound on 50l of coco pro plus, great stuff to use.

how do you use that mate? im using plagron lite mix with perlite, i think it is soil, for 11 a sack..
whats the difference with yours?[
QUOTE=Elliesdaddy;6999877]I spent 10pound on 50l of coco pro plus, great stuff to use.[/QUOTE]

Whatever home depot has for pre-limed garden or potting soil...and a bag of perlite to mix up in it as well

Just mix up your own stuff with pro-mix bails as your base....

200 bucks in a 3x3 hole of sub cools super soil sounds like alot to me. Your only supposed to put in the bottom 1/3 to 1/4 ?

I spent about 400.00 on soil this year.

For 3 big plants, 3 small plants, and 5 autos I spent less than $100 on promix. Used Fox Farms Peace of Mind once a month along with my Botanicare from the previous year.

I only buy Perlite. I make my own compost with manure and dead animals.

I only reinvest 100 a year or less in soil. The plants and cost recovery gets that back so actually I spend nothing on soil . Will start no till this year in containers and yard so soil costs go down and buying bulk amendments no added costs for a few years. keepem green dirrtyd

Im planning my soil mix now , and will have mine all premixed and delivered at a cost of $150 a cu yard, and i will be getting a min. 50 yards , but that is because this garden is all virgin ground, so this will be the base for years to come with small amending needed yearly. Most of my garden will be 200 gallon homemade smart pot containers, as I used some homemade 55g out of weed fabric and chicken wire last season and nailed a few at 2 lbs usable herbage in recycled soil. Also I wont be needing to buy or use any nutrients, except some EWC teas and some foliar feeding, other than that, love, sweat, tears, and preventive maintenance will help me achieve my goals!!!

I buy bulk compost & worm castings & mix them with Ocean Forest & Happy Frog from the bag.
50% bag soil & 50% compost/EWC/Perlite
Add about 6 cups of "Rainbow Grow" organic dry fertilizer, & 6 cups dolomite, per 100gl smart pot
Top dress with a cup of Rainbow every 4 weeks, switch to Rainbow Bloom during flowering
This has been a great blend for me
I figure I had about $50 in each 100gl smart pot
Good luck

peace
doublejj

doublejj said:

I buy bulk compost & worm castings & mix them with Ocean Forest & Happy Frog from the bag.
50% bag soil & 50% compost/EWC/Perlite
Add about 6 cups of "Rainbow Grow" dry fertilizer, & 6 cups dolomite, per 100gl smart pot
Top dress with a cup of Rainbow every 4 weeks, switch to Rainbow Bloom during flowering
This has been a great blend for me
I figure I had about $50 in each 100gl smart pot
Good luck

peace
doublejj

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50 bucks to grow a minimum two pound plant not bad in my book. What is this rainbow grow? have to look into that. keepem green dirrtyd

Rainbow is an old school dry organic fertilizer. I've used it for years. Nothing fancy.
It's a blend of many of those ammendments you have on your list dirty. It's just pre-mixed from the bag.
Easy to use, very forgiving. The plants love it. Super stuff, & not too expensive

peace
doublejj

So no maxsea this year double JJ ? I thought u swore by that stuff ..
Just curious as I will be trying to mimic your growing style in smaller smart pots like ABM

I stocked up on some Maxsea just in case. If all goes as planned I won't even open the veg at all.

Check local soil makers. I have two local earthworm farms which sell all grades of amazing soil by the yard. Much much cheaper than buying bags of FF or any other potting soil and it works much much better imo. Just amend into your favorite super soil and wallah!

Of course you can't argue with doublejj's results. lol fing monsters.

"This has been a great blend for me" doublejj
......... hell i would say so my friend , I'd say your mix is treating you very well, and I would also say it has to do with the gardeners skills as well!!!!
here is why I need to select a better mix, my recycled soil just didnt cut it,did fine for a 1st timer and i was blessed to get what i got....BUT.....I want bigger and better buds, bud bigger good, good big buds, buds good bigger, big good buds!!!! See what i mean......
, the smaller of these all were from an indoor op that got invested with mites due to my laziness and stupidity...you win some you loose some, but learning from it all is what counts at that point, so i nurtured them back to health and let them soak it all up outdoors, and the 3 on left all had my recycled soil in it and got top dressing and Maxsea veg & bloom only !!