Coots Soil Mix
The following recipe is not mine, but it is what i have found to work best . All credit for this recipe goes to Clackamas Coots. First and foremost, it is important to keep in mind the quality of the inputs as 1/3 of this mix is compost and not all compost is as beneficial as you may think. This is one area not to look for the cheap alternative.
Making Coots Soil Mix
Let’s go over the recipe and then we can further discuss the best sourcing of the inputs.
Base:
1/3 Compost
1/3 Sphagnum Peat Moss
1/3 Aeration (Such as pumice stone, rice hulls, lava rock)
This will make up your base. For example, if you are trying to make 15 gallons of soil (2 cubic feet) you would add 5 gallons of each and then mix thoroughly.
Additional Inputs:
With the additional inputs, you will want to use a 1/2 cup of each per cubic foot of soil you are making.
Neem/Karanja Cake
Kelp Meal
Crustacean Meal
Minerals:
For the minerals, you will want to use a total of four cups per cubic foot. Therefore, you will use one cup of each of the below ingredients in your soil mix.
Basalt
Glacial Rock Dust
Gypsum
Oyster Shell Flour
As mentioned earlier, it is very important to ensure you source quality inputs. The best compost would be homemade. If you are not able to make your own or just don’t want to, Malibu Biodynamic compost is the next best option. Sphagnum peat moss does vary from peat moss and it is best to ensure you are sourcing sphagnum peat moss. The aeration portion of the base isn’t as important, but you do want smaller chunks of lava rock or pumice stone. Incorporating rice hulls is advisable because once they break down, they are a great source of silica. Because they do break down over time, you don’t want your aeration portion to be made up entirely of rice hulls.
Soil Recipe For Canabis as Mendo Dope Organic
33% Peat Moss
33% Compost
33% Aeration
For every Cubic Foot of Soil Mix
Add
1/2Cup Kelp meal
1/2cup Neem Seed Meal
1/2cup Crab Meal
4cup of Mineral Mix
Mineral mix:
50% Glacial Rock Dust
25% Gypsum
25% Oyster Flour
let soil rest for 2-4 weeks before Planting in
topdressing:
Top dress with mulch
2 tblsp Fishbone meal
3tblsp kelp
4tblsp gypsum
per 5gallons of soil
add 0.5 to 2 inch layer of Worm casting(compost) across container
Mulch on top
Repeat this every cycle.
dont till or stir up your soil ever