Which is a better potting soil and why?

drsaltzman said:

I’ve thought about Blumats, but I enjoy hand watering every day.
It’s therapeutic, but also, keeps me connected with the plants.
Might be nice when going out of town but I can always find someone to tend them for me.

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I went to blumats to get away from the plants.

I'll go days without even looking at them even though they're just out in the garage. My vegetable garden is a different story. When that's growing I spend hours with it daily.

Ocean forest is a good product. Whatever you choose, amend with EWC.

I’ve used the ffof many times and it works good always had to feed bottled nutes and never started my seeds in it I always used the light warrior for them and I always added more perlite to my ffof for aeration but now I build my own soil I think I still have like 8 or 9 bags of ffof in the garage

twentyeight.threefive said:

To each their own I guess. If you want to be lazier and do more guessing, go soil. Just because someone is new doesn't mean they don't want to do work. Some people enjoy taking care of their plants. Not to mention you can pull better yields in coco if that interests you.

If you can follow simple steps it's pretty hard to mess up coco and if you do you can easily get back on track. I thought those points might be appealing to new growers.

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To each their own I can agree with. To me there is nothing easier than growing with soil. I do want to be lazier lol. I have kids, businesses to run and my grow is only for headstash since quality flower is hard to find in my area. It’s still my opinion that starting with soil is best for new growers. Wasn’t coming at you or anything was offering my genuine advice for the OP.

Stoped buying soils few years back, my loved 110 liters soil bags are not available anymore, they was cheap and nice soil, I looked for others soils and it wasn't cheap at all, so now I buy perlite, coco bricks and worm castings, I go near forrests and places where I know there are nice soil and take some big buckets (if is necesary sift/sieve the earth avoiding clay wich is more thin and medium/big stones), depending on soil type, I add more or less perlite and coco (around 20% or more), I mix the soil and perlite/coco and then i add old and dry grounded cow manure, a lot, something around 30% or 40% (if summer pass by the manure, it will ok at 8 months, need to be old, better 1 year+), cow manure could be the more easy to get, there are cows everywhere in almost all countries and they pop a lot xD Then, every season I top dress cow manure, worm castings and some bat guano in preflowering (100-200grs/plant), you really don't need nothing more.