Age and bad back pumped the brakes on my mixing soils days. And finding premix stuff has really made life ez.
I do something similar jacking up my Lush to make it xtra hot. Over the years I kinda adopted several ideas into how I like my soil for flowering taking supersoil ingredients but using ideas from True Living Organics and doing layers with the hot mix in the bottom layers of a 7 gallon pot. Very rarely do a liquid feed of fish and & seaweed but other than that it's water until harvest. For my current grow I'll be shelving the fish & seaweed and opting for a compost tea brew.
This will sound kinda weird but avoid soils with dirt in them.
I avoid anything with sand like Ocean Forest or clay and prefer a peat base soil for warm weather grows and coco based soil for cool weather. And especially avoid anything that smells like wet sawdust or is super heavy. If trying to pick up a bag gives you a hernia, leave it on the floor. If you can lift it with one arm, even better.
The entire line of Roots is good. Each one is just an elevated version of Original with Lush having everything. Greenfields has a lot of sea borne goodies in there and 707 is a basic yet mild super soil recipe.
I've used a lot of soils looking for what I like most and usually go back to Roots after a test run just because Roots is so good and ez to work with. Right now I'm testing out Coast of Maine Stonington and really like what I see but here's a list of some notable bags I've used.
For a budget soil, Fertilome Ultimate Potting Mix. It's pretty much a Happy Frog copycat at half the price. Add xtra perlite to lighten it up though
Black Gold
Ladybug Vortex
Vermifire
FF Salamander for warm weather
FF Strawberry Fields
Sunshine #4
ProMix white bail
Avoid anything from Botanicare. Too expensive and performs like hot garbage
