Hi Maryjane newb!
You have many of the same ingredients as Subcool's soil mix so maybe you can use his thread as a guideline. It does make a very strong or 'hot' mix and he recommends not putting seedlings or very small clones in the soil. He has learned to grow with organics in a way that has mind blowing results. I switched to his soil mix for my current grow and the best part is all of my nutes have stayed on the shelf!
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All you give them is water each feeding. Here is a link to his thread on MP as well as a thread at Sub's home base, Breedbay.
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26412
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Even if you don't use his exact recipe it's a good read and it might give you some ideas about your soil mix ingredient proportions. Since you have lots of organic amendments for your soil you might consider 'cooking' your soil in a container to break it down into a more readily available form for your plant to use. I can't blame you for not wanting to ship worm castings. They are very heavy and that would drive up the cost a lot but we're talking So Cal and they can't be too hard to find in the inland empire... are you anywhere near San Bernadino? Here's a hydro/indoor gardening store that would have more mj specific gear and organic amendments. I'm sure they have worm castings.
hXXp://www.greenmilehydro.com/
1480 South E St. #D, San Bernardino, CA 92408
(909) 885-5919
If you do want to use Sub's mix, all of the other ingredients like bat guano can be found pretty easily at hydro shops and I've seen azomite on ebay and elsewhere on the internet and these are small quantities that are easily shipped. He doesn't include added perlite because the Roots soil has that but you could go with about a 4:1 or 5:1 ratio depending how much you like to water your soil. The more perlite that you use the better it's going to drain and the faster it will dry out too. I'd suggest searching for other forum posts from chicken manure users... Google: 'chicken manure marijuana' and you'll find an application rate. I've heard it's very high in Nitrogen so you may not want to use much of it for a flowering mix and might be better if used in a veg mix. It does need to be composted or cooked to break it down into a usable form for your plants.
The ingredients you list are for a very fertile organic soil. If you mix up a hot soil you won't need bottled nutrients other than maybe some Botanicare Sweet or molasses to feed your soil microorganisms and some Liquid Karma or similar humic and fulvic acid supplement. You simply water the whole bloom cycle with only one or two applications with Sweet and Liquid Karma or similar ingredients.
There are other Subcool Super Soil forum posts all over the web and here is the latest tweak to his recipe as of about a month ago when he last visited Breedbay:
Subcool Super Soil
-> Full Batch (12 cubic feet)
8- Large bags (1.5 cubic ft. ea) High quality Organic soil with Mycorrhizae
(i.e. Roots Organic)
25 pounds of Organic Worm castings
5 lbs. Steamed Bone meal
5 lbs. Bloom Bat Guano (Fruit Bat – High P)
5 lbs. Blood meal
3 lbs. Rock Phoshates
¾ cup Epson salts
1 cup Sweet Lime (Powdered Dolomite)
1 Cup Azomite (Trace Elements)
2- TBS Powdered Humic Acid
Mix up the ingredients with the soil thoroughly and place in a large plastic bin or garbage can and let it 'cook' in the sun for 30+ days for the organics to activate and for the dolomite to break down and stabilize ph.
Run off on this mix after a 4 week 'cooking' with 7.0 ph water is 6.3
I'm pretty amazed at how things look so early into flower and all I've given them is water. Here are a some pics of trichs already forming 3 weeks since 12/12 on Poison Afghan and White Widow...
Happy Growing!