Soil Recipes

We use soil to grow our plants. While we do use hydroponics for absolute control over experimental grows and testing phases, we breed plants outdoors in soil to create the best possible next generation of progeny.

Coot's Mix Modified

The soil is compromised of two parts- base, and amendments:

Base Soil (good for general use always)

Ingredient	Quantity	Reason
Peat Moss, or Coco Coir	2 Parts	Base organic matter
Pumice, Perlite	1 Part	Permanent Aeration
Rice Hulls, Vermiculite	1 Part	Water Retention + Aeration
Vermicompost	2 Parts	Microbes + Base Nutrition

They sell peat moss in 3.8 cf (cubic foot) plastic covered bales at most hardware stores.

Each cf (cubic foot) is 7.5 gallons.

Amendments

For every cubic foot or 7.5 gallons of Base Soil , add the following:

Ingredient	Quantity	Reason
Kelp Meal	1 cup	Base organic matter
Neem Cake/Karanja Cake	1 cup	Micronutrients
Oyster Shell Powder	1 cup	Calcium
Gypsum	1/2 cup	Soil conditioner and Calcium Sulfate
Basalt	3 cups	Cation Exchange Capacity control + Trace Minerals

This soil recipe (base + amendments) is from Clackamas Coot (Jim Bennett) and is based on long term viable container/raised bed mixes for trees and plants that stay on nursery properties for decades. It’s designed for growing high dollar selling cash crop flowering drug hemp plants after a few modifications.

Source: Jim's blog

Modern Mix

While this recipe is too long for me to post and would rather link, I highly recommend this.

This is the recipe I use for my personal breeding projects, which is based on the above recipe from Jim but has a little bit more ingredients involved for the base and amendment mix.

With the ideology of priobiotics in the soil medium, this mix involves feeding the soil with blended aerated compost teas and sprouted seed teas to break down the amendments (in the soil mix or topdressed in the first several inches of recycled soil).

If you have any questions about getting into the Modern soil.

Source: Modern Mix