Soil Food
Introducing Soil Food – Unleash the Power of Ecothrive Living Soil
Our brand new Soil Food range of premium organic soil amendments, designed specifically for Ecothrive Living Soil is finally here! Comprising three products, Soil Food Grow, Soil Food Bloom, and Soil Food Re-Gen, these carefully crafted blends of organic inputs have been designed to give living soil growers a powerful and easy-to-use toolkit to nourish plants and simplify living soil reuse.
Soil Food is designed to support specific stages in the plant life-cycle and help you to achieve outstanding results from your living soil grow. By supplying essential organic nutrition in an easily assimilable, ready to use top dressing powder, you both feed your plants and promote a thriving microbial living soil ecosystem.
Whether you’re growing in pots or soil beds, the Soil Food range makes it easy. Together, Soil Food Grow, Bloom, and Re-Gen form a complete organic powdered nutrient system that takes the guesswork out of soil management.
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Each Soil Food product is designed to meet a specific need in the growing cycle, but together they create a complete solution for living soil management. By investing in the full range, you ensure your soil has everything it needs at every stage of growth, from vigorous vegetative development to abundant flowering and beyond.
Soil Food has truly been a labour of love for us. We’ve spent years carefully selecting and sourcing every ingredient to serve a specific purpose. Every bag of Soil Food represents countless soil tests, meticulous growth trials, and many, many late nights! Now it’s time for you to test and see the results for yourself. One thing’s for sure—Soil Food takes the hard work out of soil management so getting your organic plants to reach their full potential has never been easier!
Each Soil Food product is designed to meet a specific need in the growing cycle, but together they create a complete solution for living soil management. By investing in the full range, you ensure your soil has everything it needs at every stage of growth, from vigorous vegetative development to abundant flowering and beyond.
Soil Food has truly been a labour of love for us. We’ve spent years carefully selecting and sourcing every ingredient to serve a specific purpose. Every bag of Soil Food represents countless soil tests, meticulous growth trials, and many, many late nights! Now it’s time for you to test and see the results for yourself. One thing’s for sure—Soil Food takes the hard work out of soil management so getting your organic plants to reach their full potential has never been easier!
Soil Food – Grow
Organic Top-Dress Soil Amendment | Feeds and Enriches Soil Life
For robust and vigorous vegetative growth. Use Soil Food Grow during the vegetative growth phase to provide your plants with a steady and balanced supply of essential nutrients to support root, stem and leaf production. This potent organic top-dress amendment is designed to invigorate soil biology and ensure optimal nitrogen availability, supporting a sturdy plant structure and an abundance of lush, healthy foliage.
The Key Ingredient: Soy Amino Hydrolysate
Fuel your plants’ vegetative phase with Soil Food – Grow, enriched with soy amino hydrolysate—a fast-acting organic ‘amine’ nitrogen source that gives plants an effortless nutrient boost. Amine nitrogen is a highly accessible form of nitrogen that plants absorb effortlessly, speeding up growth. By supplying nitrogen in this form, it energises growth while driving soil biology into high gear.
Key Benefits:
- Provides nitrogen in an easily assimilable form, ideal for rapid plant uptake for a solid, vigorous growth phase.
- Stimulates soil biology, encouraging nutrient mineralisation and microbial diversity.
- Balances short and medium-term nitrogen availability, mitigating the risk of overloading living soil with residual nutrients.
Other Ingredients:
- Mealworm Frass (Ecothrive Charge): Supercharges microbial life and enhances nutrient cycling.
- Micronised Rock Phosphate: Supplies phosphorus in an ultra-available form to promote strong root systems.
- Potassium Sulphate & Gypsum: Deliver potassium, sulphur, and calcium to build strong, resilient plants.
With Soil Food Grow, your plants will power through the vegetative phase. When it’s time to transition to flowering, switch to Soil Food Bloom to promote healthy flower formation and abundant blooms.
Soil Food - Bloom
Organic Top-Dress Soil Amendment | Crafted to Promote Abundant Flowers
For abundant buds, flowers and fruits. Transition to Soil Food Bloom when your plants begin to enter their flowering phase. This blend is specifically crafted to reduce nitrogen while boosting potassium and phosphorus levels—a key nutritional cue to send flowering plants into overdrive. It provides your plants with the nutrients they need for healthy flower formation and aromatic, high-quality yields. Ideal for use throughout the early and mid-flowering stages.
The Key Ingredient: Potassium Lignosulphonate
The secret to Soil Food Bloom’s exceptional performance is potassium lignosulphonate, a unique organic source of potassium enriched with 80% fulvic acid. Fulvic acid doesn’t just deliver potassium; it also enhances the availability of phosphorus, calcium, and other nutrients, ensuring your plants have everything they need for optimal bud formation and incredible flower power!
Key Benefits:
- Improves phosphorus uptake and promotes compact, dense flower development.
- Acts as a chelating agent, increasing the efficiency of nutrient absorption.
- Contains wood sugars to fuel soil microbes and soluble carbon, enhancing overall soil fertility.
Other Ingredients:
- Mealworm Frass (Ecothrive Charge): Drives microbial activity to sustain plants during energy-intensive flowering.
- Gypsum and Kieserite: Provide essential calcium and magnesium for abundant buds.
- Micronised Rock Phosphate: Maintains phosphorus availability for sustained and prolific flower production.
Switch to Soil Food Bloom as flowers begin to form and watch your plants reward you with vibrant, high-quality blooms. After harvesting, use Soil Food Re-Gen to revitalise and re-nourish your living soil for your next crop!
Soil Food Re-Gen
Organic Soil Amendment | Restores and Revitalises Soil Life
For revitalising soil between crops. After harvesting, use Soil Food Re-Gen to restore depleted living soil. This expertly formulated organic soil amendment replenishes key nutrients and minerals, supporting microbial life and restoring the perfect soil nutritional environment for your next crop. Apply during your soil preparation phase to maintain a sustainable growing system.
The Key Ingredient: Olivine
The standout ingredient in Soil Food Re-Gen is olivine, a magnesium iron silicate that provides a slow, consistent release of magnesium and silicon. Magnesium is essential for chlorophyll production, while silicon strengthens plant tissues, making them more resilient to stress.
Key Benefits:
- Releases magnesium steadily, supporting chlorophyll production without overloading the soil.
- Supplies silicon to enhance plant structural integrity and improve pest resistance.
- Balances nutrient availability, ensuring soil is ready for the next growing cycle.
Other Ingredients:
- Bone Meal: A slow-release source of nitrogen and phosphorus to replenish soil health.
- Mealworm Frass (Ecothrive Charge): Revitalises microbial populations for healthy, biologically active soil.
- Micronised Rock Phosphate: Replenishes phosphorus reserves without creating residual build-up.
Use Soil Food Re-Gen at the end of each crop cycle. This long-lasting nutrition supports early vegetative growth, after which you can top-dress with Soil Food Grow to continue nourishing your plants.
Typical Analysis
Soil Food – Grow
Nitrogen (N) - 3.5%
Phosphorus (P2O5) - 3% (1.3% P)
Potassium K2O) - 4.5% (3.8% K)
Also contains 6% Calcium, 1% Magnesium, 4% Sulphur plus 6% Amino Acids.
Soil Food Bloom
Nitrogen (N) - 2%
Phosphorus (P2O5) - 8% (3.5% P)
Potassium (K2O) - 6% (5% K)
Also contains 10% Calcium, 1% Magnesium, 2.5% Sulphur plus 2.5% Fulvic Acids.
Soil Food Re-Gen
Nitrogen (N) - 3.5%
Phosphorus (P2O5) - 5.5% (2.5% P)
Potassium (K2O) - 3.5% (3% K)
Also contains 10% Calcium, 1% Magnesium plus 4% Sulphur.
How to Use Soil Food Grow and Bloom
Soil Food Grow and Bloom should be top dressed periodically throughout your plants' life cycle. For more details guidelines on when to top dress please see our feedcharts
Use 1-2g per litre of soil
Calculate based on the soil volume in the top 15cm of your pot or bed.
Top-dress onto the soil surface and scratch into the top 2-4cm. Water after application.
In smaller pots, nutrition depletes faster than in larger pots. Always react to your plants’ needs and your growing conditions.
Soil Food Grow - For 40-60L pots apply during the late vegetative or early transition phase, 3-4 weeks after planting.
Soil Food Bloom - For 40-60L pots apply during the early generative phase, once flowers have started to form. Some cultivars benefit from a second application 2-3 weeks later. Avoid applying top dresses 4-5 weeks before harvest.
Field or Garden Soil
Established Crops: Top-dress 100-200g per m2.
Scratch into the top 2-4cm of soil.
Water after application.
Repeat every 4-6 weeks.
Use 1-2g per litre of soil
Calculate based on the soil volume in the top 15cm of your pot or bed.
Top-dress onto the soil surface and scratch into the top 2-4cm. Water after application.
In smaller pots, nutrition depletes faster than in larger pots. Always react to your plants’ needs and your growing conditions.
Soil Food Grow - For 40-60L pots apply during the late vegetative or early transition phase, 3-4 weeks after planting.
Soil Food Bloom - For 40-60L pots apply during the early generative phase, once flowers have started to form. Some cultivars benefit from a second application 2-3 weeks later. Avoid applying top dresses 4-5 weeks before harvest.
Field or Garden Soil
Established Crops: Top-dress 100-200g per m2.
Scratch into the top 2-4cm of soil.
Water after application.
Repeat every 4-6 weeks.
How to Use Soil Food Re-Gen
Soil Food Re-gen should be blended into soil after harvesting to restore depleted soil.
Use 2-4g per litre of soil
For large pots or beds, calculate based on the soil volume in the top 20-25cm of your pot or bed.
For pots up to 25L, empty the soil and re-mix with the recommended amount of Re-Gen.
Use 2g per litre if the plants showed minimal fading toward the end of the previous cycle.
Use 4g per litre if most of the large leaves yellowed before harvest.
Always react to your plants’ needs and your growing conditions. For more application information, visit our website.
The guide below is based on a low-till approach of hand blending Soil Food Re-Gen into the top 23cm of soil.
Field or Garden Soil
Depleted Soil: apply 400-600g per m2.
Fork into the top 20-25cm of soil.
Water after application.
Use 2-4g per litre of soil
For large pots or beds, calculate based on the soil volume in the top 20-25cm of your pot or bed.
For pots up to 25L, empty the soil and re-mix with the recommended amount of Re-Gen.
Use 2g per litre if the plants showed minimal fading toward the end of the previous cycle.
Use 4g per litre if most of the large leaves yellowed before harvest.
Always react to your plants’ needs and your growing conditions. For more application information, visit our website.
The guide below is based on a low-till approach of hand blending Soil Food Re-Gen into the top 23cm of soil.
Field or Garden Soil
Depleted Soil: apply 400-600g per m2.
Fork into the top 20-25cm of soil.
Water after application.
FAQ
What is the Soil Food range?
The Soil Food range is Ecothrive’s latest line of premium soil amendments designed to simplify living soil management. It includes three products—Soil Food Grow, Soil Food Bloom, and Soil Food Re-Gen—each tailored to a specific stage of the growing cycle. Together, they provide a complete toolkit for growers to nourish their plants, promote microbial activity and sustain healthy living soil.
What does each product do?
- Soil Food Grow: Supports robust vegetative growth by providing fast and medium-release nitrogen, essential phosphorus and potassium for strong roots, stems and leaves.
- Soil Food Bloom: Optimises flowering with reduced nitrogen and increased potassium and phosphorus, boosting blooms and fruits. Contains fulvic acid for better nutrient absorption.
- Soil Food Re-Gen: Replenishes depleted soil after harvest with slow-release nutrients, magnesium and silicon to revitalise soil for the next crop.
Why use Soil Food if I’m already growing in Ecothrive Living Soil?
While Ecothrive Living Soil contains everything your plants need, nutrients deplete over time, especially in smaller pots or long-growing cycles. Soil Food ensures plants continue thriving during nutrient-hungry stages like vegetative growth and flowering. Soil Food Re-Gen restores soil for reuse, keeping it productive crop after crop.
When should I use Soil Food products?
When to use Soil Food can depend on many factors, such as the length of your cycle, the volume of soil you are using or how many times you have used the soil before. We're still preparing feed schedules for all eventualities so in the meantime, for a general guide see below.
- Soil Food Grow: Use during vegetative growth (3-4 weeks after planting in small pots or 4-6 weeks in larger pots).
- Soil Food Bloom: Apply at the start of the flowering stage and optionally reapply during mid-flowering for long cycles or smaller pots.
- Soil Food Re-Gen: Apply after harvest to restore soil health before planting your next crop.
Can I use Soil Food products together?
Yes, but they are designed to be used sequentially, not all at the same time:
- Start with Soil Food Grow during vegetative growth.
- Switch to Soil Food Bloom during flowering.
- Use Soil Food Re-Gen between cycles to revitalise the soil.
How much Soil Food should I apply?
Soil Food Grow and Bloom:
- Indoors: 1-2g per litre of soil.
- Outdoors: 100-200g per m² as a top-dress.
Soil Food Re-Gen:
- Indoors: 2-4g per litre of soil.
- Outdoors: 400-600g per m² for depleted soil.
How do I apply Soil Food?
- Top-Dress Method (Soil Food Grow and Bloom): Sprinkle the recommended amount evenly over the soil surface, lightly scratch it into the top 2-4cm and water.
- Re-Mixing Method (Soil Food Re-Gen): Blend the recommended amount into the top 20-25cm of depleted soil and water thoroughly.
What are the key ingredients in each product?
- Soil Food Grow: Soy amino hydrolysate, mealworm frass, micronised rock phosphate, potassium sulphate and gypsum.
- Soil Food Bloom: Potassium lignosulphonate (rich in fulvic acid), mealworm frass, alfalfa meal and micronised rock phosphate.
- Soil Food Re-Gen: Olivine, bone meal, mealworm frass and micronised rock phosphate.
Is the Soil Food range suitable for beginners?
Yes, Soil Food is easy to use and simplifies soil feeding schedules, making it ideal for beginner and experienced growers alike.
What types of plants are best suited to Soil Food?
Soil Food is designed for all plants grown in organic living soil systems but is especially effective for fast-growing, heavy-fruiting, flowering plants.
What makes Soil Food eco-friendly?
Soil Food uses natural, sustainably sourced ingredients, reduces packaging waste and promotes soil reuse, reducing the need for synthetic inputs and minimising environmental impact.
Does the Soil Food range contain animal products?
Yes, the Soil Food range contains carefully selected inputs, suitable for organic cultivation, including mealworm frass in all three and bone meal in Re-Gen. These ingredients are included for their ability to feed soil microbes and provide long-lasting nutrition.
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