Grow Mediums Outdoor Fabric Pots - 40 gal

[Mustang92]

Hello, looking for ideas on what to put in my 40gal fabric pots, ten in total, for outdoor grow without breaking the $$ Bank $$. One 40gal pot is alright but 10 is a hole in your back yard in order to fill.


1. Top Soil - did trade for 8 clones. My co-op kid at my shop is farmboy so cloned 10 plants for him to grow and he will fill my 10 pots with ordinary top soil - DONE
2. Cow shite - did a trade for clones again to get farm made fertilizer(used in past it's good shite, hahahahaha). Old mate that i use to grow with in past he has a pretend farm but he makes good fert. - DONE , doesn't want clones till May24.

-outdoor so needs to hold water for few days but still drain-
3. Coco Coir bricks???? I've heard don't mix coco with soil and it's alright to mix with soil for water absortion?? They sell the bricks of coco coir fiber pretty cheap at homehardware
5.peat moss ?? to much acid??
6.vermiculite, it's cheap at home hardware but how much to top soil ??
7. perlite ?? or is it vermicolite and if so is one better?
8. worn castings , got to have the worm castings
9. wood chips, do they have to be old ???
10. Clay or Sand ??
11. Humic acid
12. endomycorrhizae powder
13. Dolomite Lime - lawn care stuff??
14. charcoal-wood ??? too much acid?? can I make my own ???
15. Rock phosphate ?? it's expensive
16. Epsom salts - is it really good or is it bad for soil??
17. Bone meal its cheap and hard to screw up

So this will have to fit in a budget of $100-200 not counting the top soil, fertilize,r and wood chips(make my own charcoal from wood chips??)


@ hecno and son

 

[Mustang92]

So need to research mix amounts and then more than likely adapt to moneyz available.

did some pricing at homehardware:
Pete Moss(compressed) - $14.00 for 5.5 cu.ft.
Vermiculite - $20.00 for 30l
Perlite - $4.00 for 5l
Mycorrhizae Mix - $34.00 3.8 cu.ft.
Blood Meal - $9.00 for 1.2kg
Agricultural Lime - $7.00 for 20kg
Peat Coir Coconut Fibre - $9.00 for 5kg
Worm Castings - $15.00 for 20l

already have:
normal tops soil
clay and sand ?? do I really need ??
fertilizer-cow
wood chips
wood charcoal
Making Biochar Charcoal in a Garden.
You can make biochar at home on a micro scale by digging a trench or hole and putting a mixture of dry wood and dried plant materials such as sweetcorn stalks or perennial weeds and roots into it. Set fire to the material which will initially give off clouds of white smoke.