Creating your own soil mix - advice / recipes

Hi guys!
I wanna make my own soil, but I live in Thailand and don’t have access to all the recommend ingredients like kelp meal. But I do have access to most things, and was thinking about a modified Bruce Bugbee / super soil combo mix. I was thinking something like:

Potting soil, vermiculite, peat, worm castings, azomite (trace minerals), bat guano, neem powder, Mycorrhiza, dolomite lime, gypsum & ???

Not sure what else? Possibly blood meal and / or bone meal. What are your thoughts on this?

Do you think this would be ok for indoor / hand watering? I know Bugbee uses lab controlled environments and drip systems etc. I have a 8x4 tent w 18 airpots in it.

also: what’s everyone’s preferred resource for soil recipes / mixes? I have been checking Bulld A Soil but not sure where else to look.

thank you

Hi, all those things work very well. If your next to the coast you can collect your own sea kelp. Purge it of its salts then dry it our. Grind and should be good to go.
I personally like to keep things simple. I use chicken shit, steamed bone meal and oystershell.
Rather then putting worm castings in the soil you will get much more out of it if you make a tea with it.
To make worm tea, in a clean bucket at a air stone, worm casting and molasses. Bubble for a day or until its frothing. It should have a sweet earthy smell when done. If it smells like rotting garbage you got something bad in there and throw it out

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I avoid using too many nutrient additives, there's already a ton of organic fertilizer companies out there who are pretty good at mixing what I need.

FOUR-WAY MIX:
This mix is made up of four equal parts - four quarts, four gallons or four liters, it doesn't matter as long as they are equal.

1 part topsoil
1 part compost
1 part perlite (and/or vermiculite)
1 part steer manure

That is my "Original" recipe. I have modified it to read as follows:

1 part topsoil
1 part compost
1 part perlite (and/or vermiculite)
1 half part steer manure
1 half part Earth Worm Castings
And for each gallon (3.78 liters) of complete FOUR-WAY MIX, add1 tablespoon of FoxFarm Marine Cuisine (or any other "High Quality" organic fertilizer at 1/3 recommended strength.)

You can try a “ Non Cook “ option ….

Base mix- 1 cu feet
1/3 compost
1/3 peat
1/3 perlite / pumice or rice hulls

add:
1 cup kelp meal
1/2 cup neem meal
1/2 cup EWC ( earth worm castings )
1 cup gypsum or oyster shell
Myco
rock dust ( azomite or rock phosphate )

I do layered mixes and have a few different versions but I depends on what you can get.

Was emailed some recipes the other day, someone here might find useful.

707seedbank said:

Hi, all those things work very well. If your next to the coast you can collect your own sea kelp. Purge it of its salts then dry it our. Grind and should be good to go.
I personally like to keep things simple. I use chicken shit, steamed bone meal and oystershell.
Rather then putting worm castings in the soil you will get much more out of it if you make a tea with it.
To make worm tea, in a clean bucket at a air stone, worm casting and molasses. Bubble for a day or until its frothing. It should have a sweet earthy smell when done. If it smells like rotting garbage you got something bad in there and throw it out

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Years ago my buddy in the Cal hills dug a hole and dropped a road-kill deer in it, covered it up and dropped some seeds and dug a small trench to the nearby stream. Some tlc and we had bomb azz smoke! Simple is good!

I would go talk to some local organic farmers if I didnt have access to dry pre mixed fertilizer.See what they do, go from there.