Ecothrive Eco-Life Supercharged Soil

Eco-Life contains everything a plant needs from seed to harvest, fully loaded with the basic nutrition required for full term growth, with minimal additional inputs required. No deficiencies, no lockouts, no burn… Just perfect beautiful vigorous plants. All you need to do is keep it moist, and use enough soil for the size of the plant, it couldn’t be easier. Plant something. Water it. Watch it grow.

This latest version of Eco-Life is made indoors for full control of the potting soil preparation process. They also now use pumice instead of perlite, and premium vermicompost to give growers an even higher quality organic soil. Ecothrive want to minimise their plastic waste so Eco-Life is now packaged in a cardboard box with a thin LDPE plastic liner that is much easier to recycle.

How it works:

Eco-Life is a real potting soil, made with organic natural inputs to replicate what happens in nature. It is based on a thriving microbial population to make nutrients available to the plants just when they need it. Healthy plants lead to happy growers, and you will be delighted with the results you can achieve with little more than a pot of soil, some water and basic amendments. No longer do you need to mix up several feeds for different plants, just develop a good watering technique to maintain the optimal soil conditions and you will be amazed at the quality that can be produced.

Eco-Life soil is different to traditional bagged soils and soilless substrates. You do not need to feed your plants with a liquid nutrient formula each time you water, the nutrition is already loaded into the soil, you just need to help the microbes make it available. The basics is just to use good quality water, applied in a sensible manner, and allow the plant to take control.

Ecothrive have created a blend of naturally sourced inputs that replicates a humus rich fertile soil. All of the ingredients they use are multi-nutritional and offer growth stimulating benefits to maximise plant health, vigour and immunity and by mixing in a range of long, medium and short release ingredients, Eco-Life gives plants everything they need from seed until harvest.

Ecothrive have done all the work in advance to supercharge the potting soil with our special blend of amendments, and mixed with premium-grade peat, coco and just the right amount of pumice, to give growers a high-quality organic soil that can be used straight out of the bag.

At the end of the plants’ life it will begin to mature naturally, with no need to ‘flush’ in conventional terms. If no additional feeds were added during the grow then there is nothing to remove from the soil, the plant will just stop feeding when it is finished and slow down it’s processes until ready to harvest. There is no need to heavily flood the soil or using any flushing agents.

What’s In Ecothrive Eco-Life Supercharged Soil?

Eco-Life contains Irish Sphagnum Peat Moss, Coco Coir, Pumice, Vermicompost (Worm Castings), Mealworm Frass (Charge), Neem Cake, Seaweed meal, Crustacean meal, Volcanic Rockdust, Gypsum, Calcium and Magnesium Limestone & Humic and Fulvic Acids. Loaded with organic nutrition, these natural inputs supercharge the potting soil.

Basalt

Volcanic Rock Dust or Basalt is also another source for diverse trace minerals and for it’s high silica content. Silica is essential for optimal plant health and vigour but is often lacking from soil mixes. Having a good Silica content in your soil will allow plants to grow big and strong, with thick stems and branches to support heavy yields.

Mealworm Frass (Ecothrive Charge)

Boosting nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, as well as providing a good dose of beneficial microbes, the addition of mealworm castings naturally charges up our soil mix. As a secondary benefit, frass contains mealworm skins and body parts, these are a good source of chitin which activates the plant immune response and elevates its defences.

Vermicompost (Worm Castings)

This is the magic ingredient that makes everything else work – the engine room of the soil mix. It brings in the bacteria and fungi required to break down the other inputs and make nutrients available to the plants. We use worm castings from an indoor worm farm, where the worms are allowed to feed naturally on a diet of organic fruit and vegetable pulp and peelings, the is quality unbeatable. Also containing useful amounts of NPK as well as micronutrients, our worm castings really help bring the soil to life.

Humic and Fulvic Acids

Humus is the final product of decomposition, and is rich in humic and fulvic acids. We used a natural mined deposit of ancient vegetation that has a high humic and fulvic acids content. These key fractions are great at chelating nutrients making them easy for plants to uptake, as well as stimulating microbial activity and improving plant health and root growth.

How do I use Ecothrive Eco-Life Supercharged Soil?

To get the full benefits of using Eco-Life, Ecothrive recommend using approximately 180-250L per 1.2m2.

It is highly recommend using using 45L per pot, with 4 pots per 1.2m2.Other pot sizes will also work, as long as you get the soil volume to area on point. For example; 2 x 90L pots, 6 x 30L pots, or one big 200L bed would all be suitable.