Is Pro Mix a Good Choice for Soil?

[secretforestgarden]

Hey there again,

I know that Miracle Gro gets knocked all the time. However, I do not have access to Fox Farms soil. No hardware stores or garden stores sell it around me. So, for my next grow (starting this week) I am going to try Pro Mix organic. What do you guys think of this soil

Best,

secretforestgarden

 

[robert 14617]

I've heard of people having successful grows with the pro mix

 

[Mr.Therapy Man]

I used pro mixback in the 80s, before I could not find anything else.Depending on where your at, go to your hydro store or order on line Oceans forest from fox farm,I also mix one querter red worm castings with a high nitrogen content.These two together and you cant fuck your grow up.Pro mix is more of a nuetral soil and oceans forest has guano ,sea kelp castings and other trace minerals.They make cheaper castings called soil builder ,both are about 20.00 a bag.I have to pick up 10 bags of each this week

 

[BoXofStankay]

Hey there again,

I know that Miracle Gro gets knocked all the time. However, I do not have access to Fox Farms soil. No hardware stores or garden stores sell it around me. So, for my next grow (starting this week) I am going to try Pro Mix organic. What do you guys think of this soil

Best,

secretforestgarden

MAKE SURE YOU BAKE IT!!! the pest in MG soil makes me wonder how they ever get buisness. And the PH is 7.1-7.4 You'll need to bring it down.[i havethe same stuff right now]

When you bake it the ph should drop to 6 or below

 

[secretforestgarden]

I used pro mixback in the 80s, before I could not find anything else.Depending on where your at, go to your hydro store or order on line Oceans forest from fox farm,I also mix one querter red worm castings with a high nitrogen content.These two together and you cant fuck your grow up.Pro mix is more of a nuetral soil and oceans forest has guano ,sea kelp castings and other trace minerals.They make cheaper castings called soil builder ,both are about 20.00 a bag.I have to pick up 10 bags of each this week

Thanks for the insight. I do have fox farm nutes. What I'll prob. do is throw in a bunch of perlite, a little bit of organic blood meal, and just a pinch of fox farms tomato and vegetable fertilizer for the seedlings. I'll prob. continue to use the fox farms tomato and vegetable nutes through veg and switch to fox farms big bloom for flowering.

What do you guys think of this idea?

 

[growone]

MG soils is quite a few soils. Know of 4 myself. The MG Organic Garden is fairly good, but does have a few issues. Fungus gnats seem common, but you can deal with those pretty easily, heat the soil and that'll waste them. This is MG's acidic soil from the wood/bark mulch. Some dolomite will straighten that out.

 

[secretforestgarden]

MAKE SURE YOU BAKE IT

I've heard of microwaving the soil over actually baking it in the oven. Does this work?

 

[Mr.Therapy Man]

Ive found the Tiger bloom works better because it has a small amount of nitrogen and, plants need nitrogen even during flowering.If your tight on cash what you have will work ,I fucked up and bought big bloom and almost ended up with a nitrogen defency I dont stop the nitrogen until 4 weeks into flowering

 

[growone]

I've heard of microwaving the soil over actually baking it in the oven. Does this work?

much easier to wrap soil in the black plastic sheet, put that under the sun a few days
but only good for those of us with yards, the bake in oven works too, microwave is pretty small, never tried that one

 

[secretforestgarden]

Ive found the Tiger bloom works better because it has a small amount of nitrogen and, plants need nitrogen even during flowering.If your tight on cash what you have will work ,I fucked up and bought big bloom and almost ended up with a nitrogen defency I dont stop the nitrogen until 4 weeks into flowering

What if I augmented my big bloom with blood meal for the nitrogen? Or maybe continued to mix in some nitrogen-rich FF tomato and vegetable nutes?

Thanks for your guys' help.