Roots Organic Original soil?

ChrispyCritter

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I've searched on here but I thought I'd also just ask if anyone has used Roots Organic Original soil? I bought two 1.5 cf bags at a great price so I thought I'd try it out. Ingredients look good. I usually mix my own soil but I thought I'd try something new. Anything I should look out for? Should I add some dry ferts or just wait and see? I start seeds in starter soil and transplant a few times before flowering, which is what I will do with this soil. Thank you very much in advance for any input or even just your experience with this soil. Have a great day!
 

youraveragehorticulturist

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Roots is good stuff. It's got nice ingredients like pumice and fancy coir. It will work great for your Veg period, after your seeds are rooted and going in the starter mix.

But it's Roots Organics "lightly" amended soil. So it's probably going to run out of steam a few weeks into flower. I would use the plain stuff for vegging now, and mix up a more Souped Up version, with more dry fertilizers, for final transplant and flowering.

Here are the ingredients for Original

Perlite, Coco Fiber, Peat Moss, Composted Forest Material, Pumice, Worm Castings, Bat Guano, Soybean Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Fishbone Meal, Kelp Meal, and Greensand.

And here are the ingredients for "Lush" which is Root's highly amended "Water Only" recipe for flower.

Earthworm castings, dolomite, limestone, phosphate rock, bat guano, langbeinite, feather meal, sulfate of potash, fishbone meal, soybean meal, fish meal, kieserite, volcanic rock dust, blood meal, crab meal, alfalfa meal, greensand, volcanic ash, kelp meal, nettle leaf and hop flowers
 
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