how much perlite to add to garden soil? little help please

I have dug 2' by 2' by 2 foot deep holes. I am replacing native soil with Scotts Garden Soil mixed with regular potting soil (I took miracle gro garden soil back, i heard it burns roots). My question is: i also bought some perlite and spagnum peat moss. How much should i add to a 2'x2'x2' hole full of garden soil to give sufficient drainage? How much perlite should i add? How much peat moss? It seems like the bags are smaller than i thought they would be, but nonetheless, how much should i add? It doesnt really say how much to add. It does say its for containers, but i guess that doesnt matter right? perlite is perlite? I dont want to add too much or too little. I also bought some composted leaf humus that i will add, is this a good idea? Should i add one bag per hole? or what.... Also, with some containers i am using, how much perlite, peat moss and humus should i add? I dont want to over do the perlite or really any elements of the mix. Should i add gravel to bottom of 5 gallon bucket? I dont think i will but i want to know yalls opinions. thanks alot for the help.

 

Ya know I've told you what to buy and how big to dig the holes, etc. and so far you've ignored me so I'm through try to help someone who doesn't want to be helped.

 

i havent ignored anything you said. you said not to use MG and i returned about 20 bags of it and got some scotts. You said use some perlite and i am, i just dont know much. what did i ignore?

 

Add 10-20 percent of soil volume.

 

One thing I warn potential guerilla growers about is loss of crops to rippers, scum of the earth people who are too fucking lazy/stupid to grow their own and would rather steal your stuff.
During my 40 years of growing I have been ripped off a total of 10 times. Sometimes they were small vegging plants; that didn't hurt too much.
Other times they were almost ready for harvest, that hurt.
Like a few years ago when someone ripped off 25 plants a week from harvest. My brother, 2 disabled friends any myself require marijuana medicinally and that person cost us thousands of dollars.
Here's 2 true stories about how I dealt with rippers back in the 80's.

Story # 1
This grow involved 2+ hours driving and 2 hours bushwhacking each way, every 2 or 3 days for nearly 7 months.
I hauled out hundreds of lbs. of soil & chickenwire cages, took loving care of the plants which I raised from seed.
I went out to my 12-plant garden on Oct 1 with the intention of harvesting a few a week early cause I was dry, only to find that someone had ripped them off, not even leaving me a bud of what I grew.
It was almost enough to make a grown man cry.

Fast forward about a month. I was backpack camping at an area many miles from where I got ripped off. 3 guys show up to camp.
Around the campfire that night I mainly listened.
And they start bragging about how they stole some pot from the area I had my plants. When they went into a little detail I knew that they were talking about MY plants.
One guy said "Man I sure would have liked to seen the expression on that fucking hippie's face when he saw his plants gone ha ha."
The next morning I got up early and hiked out. When I got to the remote trailhead there was my car and their van. I knew it was their van because 1 of the guys had mentioned it.
I let the air out of 3 of the tires, pissed in the gas tank and broke out a window so I could take a dump on the driver's captain chair.
Ha ha indeed.

Story # 2
A slightly different location. I had about a dozen beautiful 6--7 foot girls just about ready to chop.
Now when I approach a garden area I move silently and stop look and listen. I had a secret "goat trail" to the grow, very rough and steep. I'm approaching the garden and I hear voices. I crouch down and take out my binoc's.
I see people poking around then I hear 1 guy yell "HEY I FOUND THEM."
They all converge on my garden and start chopping down MY pot.
Well if I couldn't have them I was gonna make sure they sure as hell weren't.
So I quickly reverse directions and made it back to my car. Then I drive to the nearest ranger station and reported seeing marijuana growers harvesting their pot.
"Damn pot growers" I told the ranger, for effect.
When the rippers got back to their car loaded up with MY pot guess who was waiting for them?
Federal leo's. Including a HUGE cop that manically HATES pot, pot smokers & pot growers.
ADD: growing on Federal property (the Nat'l Forest) is different than growing in your backyard. If you get busted penalties are harsher.
I followed the case (I know a lot of rangers) and 3 of them got 30 days in jail, 2 years probation and community service, 1 guy (the driver) got 3 months in jail, 3 years probation and community service.

Nowadays I prefer to let kharma take care of the bastards. When I got ripped off a few years ago (I knew who did it, neighbors) many friends were recommending "fuck them up" etc. but the rippers would have known who did it, so what I did was put out the word what these people had done.
Out in these parts people don't like thieves. Even those who are anti-pot, or ambivilent about it don't like thieves. Suddenly people wouldn't have anything to do with them. Several stores wouldn't sell them anything and they had to drive an extra 40 miles r/t to get groceries.

Another time someone broke into my house while I was gone and ripped off my indoor grow. 20 plants just a few days from harvest.
I knew who it was.
Not too many people knew of my grow (a few highly trusted friends) but this guy let's call him "M" knew because I bought my first indoor set-up from him. I thought M was my friend too. I smoked him out whenever he came over and even gave him pinches of weed for free occasionally.
Living across the street he knew when I was home and when I was out camping.
Plus a neighbor told me he had seen the guy in my backyard while I was gone.
I became 100% sure it was M when a friend told me that suddenly this guy had a lot of fresh cut pot for sale.
Now, if I would've gone over to his house with a few friends and kicked his ass, him and some of his friends would've jumped me, then I would've had to come back with more friends and kicked their ass etc. until someone ended up in the hospital and/or jail.
And none of it would have got my pot back.
I did 3 things:
A few days later when he was washing his car I broke down my growroom and let him see me packing it up in my car. When he asked me what was up I said "hey remember I told you my pot got ripped off last weekend?"
"Yeah" .
"Well he'll probably come back and do it again so I've giving up indoor growing."
I took the equip. to a friends house and brought it back a few nights later when M wasn't home.
Then I made my place break-in free.
AND whenever he stopped by I told him I was on my way out, and would leave.
A year or so later he got married and moved. His wife is a total bitch. She makes him carry a pager so she can keep track of him, doesn't let him smoke pot and he has to turn over his paycheck to her and she lets him have like 5 dollars a week.
He ripped off one of his new neighbor's and got his ass royally kicked.
Last I heard he was miserable.
Perfect.

There are 2 morals to this story:
If you grow weed, accept the fact that it may get ripped off. If it does it's mainly your fault. You didn't plant them remote enough.
AND
If you do get ripped off and knoiw who it is, don't resort to violence. It likely won't get you your pot back.
Let kharma take care of 'em. Sooner or later they'll get beaten severly and you didn't even have to lift a finger.