Dragonfly Earth Medicine: Living Organic Super Soil

Dragonfly Earth Medicine: Living Organic Super Soil

Have you found yourself seeking all the benefits of organic soul but you can’t really be fussed with its slow working? Step forward living organic super soils. These absolute marvels provide potent certified 100% organic products that get to work in a matter of weeks as opposed to years. You can achieve incredible yields of beautiful fragrant flowers with these products and it may change the way you grow forever. This blog will cover DEM’s range in particular, give a breakdown of the entire range of products, how to mix the soil and even a test run of these powerful products themselves. 

What Is Living Organic Super Soil?

If you search online for a super soil recipe you will probably find everyone talking about “subcools recipe”. Subcool is a grower and breeder from the United States who owns the TGA seed company and is regarded as the pioneer for super soil. The problem with subcools super soil is that in the UK we can’t get hold of a lot of the ingredients needed to make it. This is where Dragonfly Earth Medicine’s amazing products come in. DEM has done all the hard work for us and created a range of powdered amendments. These can be used to create an amazing super soil and even better the range is 100% pure organic made from plants.

The idea of super soil is to mix the soil before you fill your pots with amendments. This will give your plants everything they need for the full cycle, once your soil is mixed and your pots are filled you just add water… simple.

DEM Range

Lush Roots

• A Powerful Organic Herbal Endomycorrhizae Inoculant that encourages ultimate nutrient uptake.
• Expands root mass and brings biodiversity to your garden. I love this stuff it’s my favourite product at the moment.
• Use it when you transplant clones I like to dip the jiffy in water and then coat the jiffy to get the roots going

Radiant Green

• Ideal base nutrient.
• A Complete Organic Herbal and Bacteria Supplement that supports Ultimate Immune Health for your gardens.
• A Bio stimulant that is good for every feeding during a plant's vegetative stage. The quintessential brew and soil amendment.
• This is really good stuff and does an amazing job as a base feed.

Fat Flowers

• A superb Organic blend of Herbs and Bacteria’s that specifically aide in extraordinary yields.
• Excellent as an everyday nutrient during the flowering and fruiting stages of a garden cycle.
• Makes a fantastic brew and soil amendment.
• This stuff works really well to give you amazing flowers.

Brilliant Black

• Organic Alfalfa blended with micronized humates and beneficial bacteria.
• A replenishing and restorative soil amendment for all stages of plant growth.

Natural Mistik

• A wicked organic herbal blend that is used to nourish plants through foliar spraying.
• Can be used regularly for clean leaves and Essential Vitamin and Mineral Nutrient Uptake.
• Pro Tip: Use every other day in the veg stage to keep all the leaves clean and very healthy.

Required Items For Soil Mix

• Guanakalong soil 45L – One of the best soils on the market. Airy and full of goodness
• Guanakalong bat dung 450g - This stuff will make your flowers taste amazing and it’s 100% organic it gives a depth of flavour that no bottled nutrients can match
• Worm castings 5L - You can buy plagron worm castings that are really good these help promote root development and helps with nutrient uptake; full of trace elements, enzymes, and bacteria all needed for a healthy living soil
• Hydro stones washed- added for extra drainage and aeration of the soil
• DEM range product
• Live earthworms x 30 optional - I like adding live worms they create tunnels when they move in the soil creating pockets of air for the roots. Also, you feed the worms and in turn the worms feed the plants just like in nature
• 56L root pouch- In our opinion, a well-utilised root pouch can help plants grow faster and assure the soil will never get too wet
• Light mix soil plagron
• Black and white to mix the soil on
• Straw to cover the top of the pouch-only if using live worms

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Lay the black and white sheeting on the ground and empty the 45L bag of soil on to it + worm castings + bat dung
2. Add 1 teaspoon of all the DEM products per 5L of soil for a short veg time up to 3 weeks so that’s 9 of each and mix it into the soil, add 2 teaspoons per 5L of soil for a long veg time up to 6 weeks. All strains feed at different rates so these ratios are guidelines but don’t panic you can’t do any harm to your plants by over-feeding with DEM products.
3. Add 10L of the washed hydro stones to the soil and mix them in this is to help with drainage
4. Add the worms to the mix
5. Fill the root pouch, add a layer of washed hydro stones to the bottom of the pouch. This is to help with drainage you want a 3inch layer at the bottom
6. Start to fill the pouch with the soil mix. Fill the pouch leaving a 6inch space at the top
7. Add clone which has been in the veg room for 2 weeks in a 3.8L pouch. Carefully remove the clone from the pouch and sit it on top of the soil mix in the 56L pouch.
8. Take the light mix and fill in the space around the clone.
9. Lay the straw evenly over the top of the pouch. This will protect the worms from the light when they come to the surface. Feel free to add fruit scraps to the surface of the pouch (under the straw) every week for the worms to feed on.
10. Water the plant every other day with RO water with a ph. of between 6 and 7. Optionally, you can also use a compost tea once a week.

Results

I have just finished my first grow using this method, I could go into major details from the grow journal about this and that but I don’t think I need to. In the last 3 years, my focus has been on producing the best organic flowers that I can and I have tried nutrient ranges from bio bizz and bloom to try and achieve this. Bear in mind that even organic bottled nutrients are not 100% organic as they contain synthetic stabilisers to prevent the contents from going off.

DEM is a step above. What you could call “true” or “pure” organics: all the products are made from plant extract. You're feeding your plants with plants…can it get any more organic than that?

The flowers that I have just produced are the best I’ve ever had in all my life. A mentor to me for many years when I started growing and is probably the best grower I’ve met said he has never witnessed flowers that good from an indoor garden. The results of this product are miles and above anything under the ‘bottled nutrients’ label and I find myself wholly committed to this style of growing. If these results are anything to go by, DEM will give you the ability to produce the most amazing crop you will ever taste or smell.

A massive thank you to everyone at DEM for bringing this range to market, hopefully in time people will come to realise the potential of this fantastic range.