@Loggershands all of which should be individually available at big brand store….
Which leads to a question which may be inherent…
Best large brand store organic nutrient option???
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Dr earth. Imo
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Sungro thats what i meant this bag right here .Had to relook at my bag thought it was sunshine.Sungro is the one i use had a ph buffer with the dolamite added in.
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Good chit right there growmigo
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If the grow budget is the Home Depot card might be the only option. But to this point be sure to check ur bag of Promix or Promix Organic for any rips as grow stores do put more care into making sure bags are not contaminated. Home depot has a bag of wormcastings i like to pick up its like 13 bucks
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How much do those bags of ECW weight?ECW is going for a pretty good price these days 30lbs of Fresh Brut castings on Amazon is going for about a dollar and some change a lb 30lb bags for like 32 bucks i find live worms in the bags all the time they use good red wigglers.A tiny step down is the Wrangler ones those are 40$For 40lbs and its delivered right to your door no driving gas to waste.If you find the local worm guy like i did he does 25lb bags for 15 bucks.He even has the Worm nectar for sale.
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WORM NECTAR?! 
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The guys who Have the worm farms collect the Black juice that forms from going through the worm vermicompost and collecting at the bottom of the layered Worm Rig they use comes out in these little Spickets at the bottom.Some call it Worm Leachette i think ?my guy calls it worm nectar. 
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Just over $100 for one each of everything listed here, maybe add some pumice or perlite too, or rice hulls etc to top it up on aeration after the first run as the peat begins breaking down. This will make about 9 cubic feet of soil, so $11/cf for a nice fresh mixed and active soil, and by getting the things separately I think you minimize the chances of getting pests the way bagged soil can have it from the mixing and bagging process, besides the holes in bags letting them in on the pallets in storage.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Premier-3-cu-ft-Peat-Moss-0092/100618125
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Black-Kow-1-cu-ft-Manure-50150151/308819334
https://www.homedepot.com/p/5-lb-Zeolite-100-855474003473/301402585
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Espoma-6-75-lb-Organic-Garden-Lime-100508617/203192761
And repeat as needed until you’ve got enough.
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Thats the good shit
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Ive been Putting it in icecube trays and i pop one in a watering can and come back an hour and water later everynow and then.That stuff keeps pretty well frozen.Got that off of a Copy of TLO with the Rev i think.
You can get anything, really.
What you want to do after you get it is to solarize the stuff. Just google ‘soil solarization’ - but the short version is that you spread the soil out on a tarp and allow the sun to remove all of the problems. Someone is bound to chime in that it also removes all of the helpful micro-organisms in the soil and that is true.
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Worm castings are my 1# goto as an additive same with perlite. Worth its weight for nitrogen, takes a few weeks to breakdown so it’s great once plants hit veg.
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This is another good cheap organic fertilizer for soil building with:
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My Home Depot has their 1.5cu ft bags of organic peat moss on sale for $1.40 each.
So I bought 58 bags last weekend and am mulching the all my garden beds 2" thick with the yucky wet moldy bags and saved a stack of nice dry ones for my indoor grow. Kind of want to go back for more. 
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I’ve used several different brands, and have not seen a huge difference. It also seems like “potting” soil is little more than “garden” soil with perlite. It’s always good to have a bag of perlite handy.
Tried Miracle-Gro Performance Organics All Purpose Container Mix last year out in the greenhouse and seemed to work well at the recommendation of a grower over on IC… I did add myco’s and topped dressed with Roots Organic Uprising dry amendments…