BlueSky Organics SuperSoil

Hi Scott, a couple of suggestions for you - look up the essential nutrients for plants (16 in total if I’m not mistaken) and start a checklist to make sure they are all covered off in your soil mix. Each ingredient/amendment to your mix should likely have a product listing with minimum guaranteed nutrient analysis.

There is a ton of information in the Easy Organic Soil Mix For Beginner’s thread, it’s stickied in the organic forum. It will answer a lot of your questions. It will give you some great info on soil mixes, aeration and nutrients. The tricky part will be sourcing each amendment locally, but with some persistence, you’ll find what you need.

 

just my thoughts, thinking out loud, not saying my opinions are correct, just my opinions...

a single bag is $33 for what is less than 1.5cf of soil. That's really expensive to say the least.
add to that the instructions say best if used with their nutrients. if it's such a "supersoil" that it's worth that kind of pretty penny why do you need to add anything but water, let alone their equally expensive nutrients?

they don't even list their ingredients on the bag, at least in the picture, so pretty hard to judge if it's any good, let alone worth that kind of money.

so for EACH plant you have in a 10gal pot it's going to cost you $33 PLUS their recommended added nutrients.
you start growing more than a single plant and this gets real expensive real fast for something we don't even know what's in it.

that kind of money you can easily build your own soil, for less money, and you know exactly what you have in it and it will work, especially if you follow the tried and proven and constantly refined recipes here in the forum. and all you will need is water. you want to add some amendments as topdressings and or teas than wonderful but otherwise you can be lazy (and CHEAP!!!) and go tap water only.

for what it's worth I've tried two brands of commercial bagged "super soils". one absolutely SUCKED and the other seemed ok but nothing i'd point to as amazing or special. I than mixed my own. plants love it better than the commercial mixes. consistently larger and better yields.
that's all i can offer to go by.
hope it helps.

having said that, this brand may be a very good soil, and very good ingredients in it but right now we have no way of knowing (I'm too lazy to have to go their the brands website. they should know the ingredients would be important and add it on the package for easily found info for the consumer) and even if the soil is actually really good, it's still really expensive. but i'm poor and cheap so i factor that in more than others who value their time more than their budget. wish i had that option many times...

 

i concur with smokey b. i'll double down on the cost aspects of his comments. as it relates to cost and risk i'd say your chance of growing a plant successfully to harvest without adding additional nutrients is very low. the question then becomes, which nutrients and how much? so now you're back to square one imo. the ingredients are listed in alphabetical order so there's no measurement of how much of each one per cf is added. could be a cup or teaspoon of something. it's a big risk with a big price tag.

the upside is this product could be offered in the us carrying the usda nop label. that's the only upside i see.