Supersoil and living soil

I can’t find alot of information of how much supersoil per pot of indoor plants your supposed to use. Supersoil is a concentrate right??? For a supersoil type grow you only to use it for the bottom 1/3rd portion of your potting soil mix? And to make living soil you go 1/3rd supersoil and 2/3rds aeration and mix together?

So my questions are am I getting all that right or am I supposed to fill my 5 gallon pots with pure supersoil in order to never need to fertilize? I whipped up a recipe only going by dosages by the Down to Earth manufacturer recommendations but it seems extreem to use the mix pure.

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If you asked 10 different people you’ll likely get 10 different answers. Even very rich soils can/will require some additional ammendments over the course of an entire grow. Some grower will layer their pots with soils of different makeups and some won’t. The people that I see very good at this are very deliberate in what they put into their pots, how much, and when. I took a break from growing and gave up, decided to move onto coco and synthetics because it doesn’t require much thinking or effort beyond repeatedly mixing the same stuff over and over.

I think you would have a good start if you filled bottom third of pots with a well known or hand built recipe super soil and then topped it off with something like roots original blend or equivalent. But I wouldn’t expect to only need to water this for the entire duration of a grow. You can probably find some topdress blends from buildasoil, roots organics, fox farms, etc to apply here and there and maybe some compost teas and get there. But I would troll around some of the well known organic threads here and see what everyone else is doing.

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