Soil to use?

next year i want to put my outdoor plants in huge 50gallon trash cans with all fox farm soils and river gravel for drainage whats your guyses opinions on soils and the river gravel idea?

meh... I make mine been dethaching the back yard and there was tons of stuff to compost.. I will reuse this years soil with some amendments and then compost stuff into it..

check out the super soil thread by subcool, thats the way to go if your relying on soil

Sounds expensive! Your local grow shop has 15 gallon tubs that will work just as well and you wont have to fill them with $50 worth of soil. Much love!

- i second supersoil- and gravel is not nessasary imo but a few inches at the bottom of the can will help with drainage and save you $$ on dirt, btw i know someone who uses 25 gallon cans -bottom 1/4 natural dirt the rest a organic mix and has pulled 2-3#'s off a plant, so 50 gallons is unnecessary.

i use 65 and 100 gallon smart pots...i know people who use bigger ones...
i ran a few mixes this year...i used happy frog and ffof in equal amounts..then coco,perlite,ewc,dolomite,sunshine mix in 6 100 gallon pots...
i used a bag of roots organic potting soil then a local coco blend in the 65s
then have a few in black gold potting soil,one in 707 mix....

they all seem to be similar...but i wont really know till harvest...