miracle grow organic choice pott mix

[FuzzyDice]

I'm growing with miracle grow organic choice potting mix. I am a green horn with growing basically instead of buying all those fancy nutrients will i even have to worry about adding anything? cause i dont know the first thing about adding nutrients or anything like that any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

 

[azmotodude]

Organic Miracle Grow is really bad to grow with... everyone ive heard of growing with it has complained about it...

 

[la9]

You should be allright with any potting soil that says it is safe for seedlings.

 

[FuzzyDice]

so are you saying i wont have to add anything except for water?

 

[Torturedzen]

Organic Miracle Grow is really bad to grow with... everyone ive heard of growing with it has complained about it...

Don't listen to this guy. Obviously he hasn't used it.

Here's my lady.... harvested today. Cultivated in Miracle Grow Organic Choice.

 

[FuzzyDice]

see but my question is will i have to add anything to the soil besides water?

 

[la9]

You might want to try looking thru this for more specific information


GROWFAQ

 

[naturalhigh]

hey man... i use that too ..pluse i mix it with a little bit of everything.. more perlite, worm castings...ect...for the first few weeks you dont have to add anything to the water,... cus theres nutes in the soil...i would say at week 4 to start juicing..

 

[FuzzyDice]

see there is the problem lol i have no %^&*#$@ idea on any of that lol i am what you would call retarded haha

 

[SenorSanteria]

Pick up some Peters All Purpose Plant food 20-20-20 and use it as the directions say. 1 teaspoon per gallon of water, once a week. That should get you started with nutes- I wouldnt freak out about nutes too much for your first grow. Spend your money on lights. Miracle Grow soil will work fine, you can nute if you want to, but you dont have to. You can still produce a quality product without nutes, you just may not get as much of it.

 

[spida]

It's not hard. Buy some nutes reccomended around by people on here, and then look at the dose on the box of how much to put in the water, and do 1/8 or 1/4 strength in your water. It's not hard do the research.

 

[Torturedzen]

Get some perlite and mix it with the soil. I use roughly 30% perlite/soil ratio.

 

[FuzzyDice]

the nutrients from my understandin is pretty much food for the plant am i right? and if so can't i just use i was going to buy this stuff at lowes the other day its miracle grow plant food but its liquid would that work? or what is one i could find at like a earl may or other garden store?

 

[Torturedzen]

MG plant food will work but make sure you you go easy on the dosage. As said before, start with 1/4 strength of what the directions say. If you over feed there's a good chance of poisoning the plant and you'll need to flush it with a shitload of water to correct the problem.

 

[FuzzyDice]

alright thanks appreciate it guys

 

[acellular]

My only experience has been with Happy Frog and Ocean Forest. I decided to give MGOCPM a try since it's cheaper. I haven't grown in it yet but I just mixed/prepped the soil. I can say without a doubt this is not even close to Fox Farm soil. The texture kind of sucks. It's not even like dirt when you add water it's more like concrete. You must add a lot of perlite! I'd say about 3:1. I feel sorry for anyone that tried running it without perlite. They must have gotten root rot for sure! I also added a 1/4 cup of Epsoma organic pelletized lime to 2 gallons of soil. I notice the pellets melt down to water right away. Both bought at Home Depot as a one stop shop. I used an old bag of Scott's perlite without any ferts in it. I wouldn't use the Miracle Gro perlite since it has ferts and you will be adding so much to the mix. The first time I watered it I ran 6.5 water through it and the runoff was 7.1 which gives me 6.8 so i'd say the p.h. is perfect. I have a feeling the actual soil p.h. is lower because the first water probably energized the lime I put in it. Based on my experience i'd say if you can definitely get Happy Frog instead. It's not that much more considering you don't have to add any perlite to it. Also, depending on plant/bucket size i'd add perlite to Ocean Forrest. I like Happy Frog better if I could only get one, however, I always ran a 50/50 mix of HF/OF.

 

[Lo Budget]

I wonder how this all turned out?

 

[ic3qu33n]

Get some perlite and mix it with the soil. I use roughly 30% perlite/soil ratio.

This is about the ratio I use, I mix until it "looks right" but 3 cups soil to 1 cup perlite is about how it goes... (slightly overfilling the perlite cup)

 

[kinddiesel]

all mg is good excellent except for moisture control has a lot of issues, potting mix has perlite in it and added nute very good for a lazy grow. dump it plant it and leave

 

[johnny garcia]

Hit em with some molasses too