could u recommend???

mainliner

Well-Known Member
iv been looking at the organic ready made soil bags fox farm etc etc

the deliverys ridiculous!!!

so im wanting to use an unbranded cheaper organic brand which will be good for the plants and i can just pickup in a local garden center.

i live in uk if this helps :)

thank u
 

Nullis

Moderator
Have you been to a local garden center just to look around and see what is available? There are tons of products/brands out there and I can't assume what is available to me is also available to you.

If you're looking for decent ready-made mix, go through the selection and check the ingredients\derived from list. Anything with urea or polymer-coated anything is out. Anything that says "time released plant food" or "feeds for x months" is out. If you can actually see the product and grab a handful of it, note the texture (it should be relatively light and airy). Anything with copious amounts of twigs, bark, wood chips is out. Same goes for perlite. Some perlite is acceptable but you don't want a mix with a shit load (it's counter-productive in terms of cation exchange/nutrient availability).

If you can give a selection of brands and their ingredients here it'll help us help you.

Otherwise, if you can get raw materials and want to mix your own soil, check out what you can get for compost. A lot of the stuff they sell as 'compost' at hardware stores around here (in the US) is really crappy for container gardening. It's often more like heavy top-soil and full of rocks and other undesirables. I use BioMax compost for my indoor containers and often screen it before using to yield an end product with a fluffier texture.
 

mainliner

Well-Known Member
thanks but im just wanting to grab a simple organic ready mix bag of soil which is good for cannabis:)

there's loads in the garden centre but i don't know which is good enough.
 

Mr.Head

Well-Known Member
Have you been to a local garden center just to look around and see what is available? There are tons of products/brands out there and I can't assume what is available to me is also available to you.

If you're looking for decent ready-made mix, go through the selection and check the ingredients\derived from list. Anything with urea or polymer-coated anything is out. Anything that says "time released plant food" or "feeds for x months" is out. If you can actually see the product and grab a handful of it, note the texture (it should be relatively light and airy). Anything with copious amounts of twigs, bark, wood chips is out. Same goes for perlite. Some perlite is acceptable but you don't want a mix with a shit load (it's counter-productive in terms of cation exchange/nutrient availability).

If you can give a selection of brands and their ingredients here it'll help us help you.

Otherwise, if you can get raw materials and want to mix your own soil, check out what you can get for compost. A lot of the stuff they sell as 'compost' at hardware stores around here (in the US) is really crappy for container gardening. It's often more like heavy top-soil and full of rocks and other undesirables. I use BioMax compost for my indoor containers and often screen it before using to yield an end product with a fluffier texture.
OH Nullis, you took the bait. Mainliner is the biggest troll on RIU right now. He makes threads then ignores advice and argues with people. He should have been banned months ago.
 

mainliner

Well-Known Member
Nah, that's only in the TnT. Don't write him off cos of preconceptions.
i wuv u growan lol


its bullshit anyways , i can honestly say iv never ever opened a thread for this troll thingy ..... Ever.

its the old " it takes one to know one " but this one isn't in afraid:)
 
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