How to Create the Perfect Super Soil Mix for Unbeatable Buds?

If you are growing cannabis in your garden, remember that the quality of the cannabis plants will determine the quality of the buds. If you are looking for healthy, big-sized cannabis buds, you must use homemade super soil to increase the chances of growing such buds. Making homemade cannabis super soil is more effective than just buying it from the market. If you think it’s hassling to make super soils, it’s not. In this guide, we have discussed how to make homemade super soil in a few easy steps. Keep reading the step-by-step instructions and prepare your cannabis super soil at home. 

What is super soil? 

Super soil is the soil that’s rich in organic compounds. It contains all the essential nutrients that are important for cannabis plant growth, helping the plants thrive throughout their seeding to the harvesting process. 

This soil is made up of organic components completely. These organic compounds are rich living microorganisms that create an ecosystem in the soil, similar to what we find in nature. Super soil acts as a home for these beneficial microorganisms that enhance the quality of the soil in the process. Super soil in short indicates a natural mechanism of enhancing the soil fertility and quality so that you get the best quality harvest without feeding chemical fertilizers and pesticides to the cannabis plants. 

 How is super soil beneficial? 

Like all other things, super soils too come with advantages and disadvantages. But the number of advantages outweighs the cons. Therefore, we have discussed the pros in detail below: 

• Super soil contains useful macro and micronutrients, meaning it are more effective than chemical fertilizers. 
• When you make super soil at home, you control from where your plants would derive their nutrition. If you prefer to grow plants by organic means, this is the way. 
• Though chemical fertilizers will help you to increase the yield, buds grown in organic super soils come with an amazing flavour like no other. Therefore, when you smoke such buds, you get a better, tastier smoke. 

Sometimes, commercial nutrient solutions contain chemicals that can cause harsh runoff which in turn has a devastating effect on the quality of the plant. Using organic, homemade super soil is completely reliable and sustainable. 

Understanding soil and cannabis nutrition 

Soil is most important when it comes to cannabis nutrition for two reasons. Firstly, the soil keeps the cannabis plants rooted and protects them from rough winds. This is the common function of soils. The second purpose of soil is to be a medium for the transportation of nutrients and water. The roots of the cannabis plants suck water and nutrients from the soil beneath them and circulate them throughout the plant. These two functions explain why high-quality, nutritious soil is most important. 

Now, we would go into detail to see what type of nutrients is requested for the proper growth of the cannabis plants. 

Water is most essential. However, apart from that, cannabis plants required three macronutrients: phosphorous, nitrogen, and potassium. If you go to your nearest store to buy chemical fertilizers for your cannabis plants you would see different proportions of these nutrients mentioned in the packaging. Here’s a brief discussion on how these macronutrients help to enhance the quality of cannabis plants. 

Nitrogen is mostly required for chlorophyll formation. Also, it’s an essential building block of amino acids. 

Phosphorus is required for the production of ATP and phospholipids, which are necessary for cell membrane formation. 

Potassium facilitates photosynthesis, regulates the levels of carbon dioxide intake via stomata, and helps to strengthen cell walls. 

Besides the macronutrients we just talked about, other micronutrients are essential in small proportions. These macronutrients constitute about 70% of chemical fertilizers while the micronutrients make up the remaining 30%. 

Wondering what these micronutrients are? Well, they are iron, sulfur, manganese, copper, calcium, boron, zinc, etc. When you prepare super soil for your cannabis plants, you get to decide what nutrients to add and in what proportions. You can take your time and prepare a rich organic medium for your plants. The hard work you invest in preparing a rich super soil will certainly pay off in terms of the flavour and quality of the harvest. 

Now, we would discuss how to prepare too quality super soul at home. 

How to make super soil at home for your cannabis plants 

Preparing super soil alone at home might sound like a daunting task, but it’s not. You simply have to start by taking some good quality organic soil and enhance its quality by adding natural ingredients to it. Once the seeds are ready to be sown, your rich, organic soil will be ready to serve as the best growing medium. Plant your seeds here and see how your cannabis plants thrive.  

• Step 1: buy your base soil 

Yes, deciding what should be the base for your cannabis super soil is super important. Being a responsible cannabis grower, it’s expected that you know cannabis plants prefer to grow in well-created, slightly acidic, and penetrable soils. Usually, people buy organic soils and add microorganisms like worms. They also add other ingredients to the soil like coco air, compost, sand, etc. Organic souls are no doubt more expedite than other types of soils but are completely worth it. Make sure your organic soil consists of these ingredients: 

• Manure
• Sand
• Peat moss
• Rock dust
• Guano
• Coco fiber 
• Pine castings 
• Vermiculite 
• Perlite

However, sometimes organic soils with these ingredients aren’t readily available. If you too can’t find any, don’t worry. Visit the local nursery and ask for neutral potting soil. If there’s something acidic, opt for that. 

• Step 2: enrich your soil

No matter whether you have got organic soil or neutral potting soil, you have to work on its quality at home. What would you do? Read below to know more. 

Place the soil in a big container. Make sure it’s well aerated. Loosen the soil particles and add natural ingredients to them. Mix the soil thoroughly to create a rich growing medium for your marijuana plants. These are a few things you should add to your soil: 

• Eggshells 
• Worm castings 
• Compost
• Tea leaves 
• Vegetable peels or fruit peels 
• Coco air 
• Sand
• Perlite
• Blood meal
• Bone meal
• Epsome salts 
• Dolomite 
• Rock phosphate 
• Organic fertilizer pellets

Once you add these to the soil, make sure you mix everything. There’s no stipulated amount of these ingredients that you must add. The correct amount to be added depends on the quality of the base soil and the time you have before planting the seeds. People are advised to prepare this soil before 6 months of planting. By giving enough time to the soil, you would ensure that the ingredients got time to break down properly. 

Once the ingredients have disintegrated into the soil, they form a rich layer of topsoil for your cannabis plants. This topsoil would be rich in nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium. Besides, it’s also expected to contain small traces of the essential micronutrients. 

Remember that formation of the super soul is time taking. Formation of the compost can take anything between months to years! Therefore people are advised to prepare the soil beforehand. The more time the soil gets, the better would be its quality. 

When you are adding nutrients like lime, dolomite, salts, etc., you mustn’t add excess amounts of them. They are really strong and can harm the plant. Therefore, be careful and read what the package says. 

• Step 3: wash your super soil 

If you don’t have enough time to prepare your super soil, you can opt for a faster and simpler method. Continue to read below and know what you can do. In small pots, where you have planned to grow cannabis, take the following ingredients: 

• 1 part perlite
• 3 parts organic starter soil
• ½ cup greensand
• 1 part worm castings
• ½ cup dolomite lime
• ⅓ cup guano

Now, mix each of the ingredients thoroughly and allow the soil to soak for at least two days in running water, make sure the soil is thoroughly wet for two days. This will ensure that your soil isn’t too hot for your seedlings. After two days are over, let the water runoff and allow the soil to dry out before planting the seeds. Once planted, give normal water to the plants for the first few days. 

• Step 4: Don’t plant directly into the super soil 

Usually, homemade super soils are extremely rich in quality. They shouldn’t be used for planting seeds, clones, or seedlings. 

Conclusion

Young cannabis plants are extremely delicate and can suffer from the nutrient burn. Instead of planting the seeds directly into super soil, germinate them first in neutral soil for the first few weeks and then transplant them once they have started vegging. 

That’s all you have to do to prepare the top-quality super soil for your cannabis plants. These steps are sure to be helpful. Follow as directed and you will have your nutrient-rich, super soil at home!