Rivercat96

I started growing in Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil cut with 30-40% perlite and had good success with that. I then started trying different high end organic soils and then eventually came across coco. Coco has improved things quite a bit in the garden and has cut out the over watering problems. I'm now trying a mix of coco, soil, and perlite. My last few grows have been with about 50% coco, 25% potting soil, and 25% perlite. This has been working really good but I'd like to add some dry organic nutrients and worm poop to the mix so I can have a very simplified grow.

I ran across Subcool's Super Soil recipe and wanted to use that as a reference but use coco as the base medium instead of organic potting soil (Roots, FFOF). If you guys can check this recipe out and give me feedback it would be appreciated. To give background on my style, I usually grow clones with a 4 week veg then flower typically in 3 gallon pots under a 600 watt HPS. I use fish emulsion with seaweed and molasses for veg and then PBP Bloom with seaweed and molasses for flowering.

Coco Mix (based on Subcool's Super Soil)
3 cu. ft. coco (Instead of 2 large bags of organic potting soil)
10 lbs EWC
.5 cu. ft. compost or good organic potting soil
.5 cu. ft. perlite
1.25 lbs steamed bone meal
1.25 lbs bat guano (bloom)
1.25 lbs blood meal
0.75 lbs rock phosphate (Subcool now omits this)
6tbs epson salts (powdered)
4tbs lime (powdered) most recommend 2 tbs per gallon of soil?
2tbs azomite (powdered)
2 tbs kelp meal (powdered)
2 tbs calcium
1.5tsp humic acid (powdered)
Mix all ingredients really well, add about a gallon of dechlorinated water and let sit/compost for 30 days.
Add soil to bottom 1/3 or 1/2 of flowering container and top off container with a cooler mix.

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Rivercat96

Does anyone have any good organic coco mixes to share? I'd like to find a good mix that does not require me to fertilize the plants very often. Subcool's mix seems to be a good mix that only requires water and I want to do something like that but with coco instead of Fox Farms Ocean Forest or Roots Organic soil.

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Pesci

This link may be helpful to you

http://www.gardenscure.com/420/soils...-building.html

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Rivercat96

Thanks for the link Pesci. I ran across it the other day but would like to see a better coco based organic soil mix that doesn't need nutes added. I can just take a basic organic mix with peat moss and sub the coco but I think coco needs a bit more potassium, calcium, and magnesium. I might just bump these three nutrients in the mix that I use and see how it works. I'm just surprised how little there is out there with coco based organic mixes. I know Mandala Seeds says to stay away from it on their website but I've had great results from it.

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