Espoma Organics

One of the most difficult things I have found in organics is finding stores that carry these products. I just stumbled across Espoma and I also read a thread that may11th said he was cooking some soil with garden tone from espoma. I looked at the ingredients and it looks like some good stuff, not to mention they carry most all the products you need to make super soil. Finally! I remember the first call I made to lowes, asking...do you have worm castings, and some guy who works in the garden center says hold on and no one seems to know what I am even talking about, then I ask if they have hummus. I might as well have been speaking Chinese. Anyways I am tracking down a few more ingredients and I am going to get a tub and cook up a batch of that supersoil! Anyone having trouble finding some of these ammendments, check out espoma.

Espoma is good stuff. Local nutseries are another great source for raw ingredients. Around here they tend to carry Dr. Earth, Down to Earth, and/or E.B. Stone products.

I have promoted Epsoma here for so long...they should pay me a commission.

Great company, great products, and more than reasonably priced.

Heck yeah. Good find. I wish they carried the 40 lb bags here but I picked up some bio-tine the other day at Lowes and payed $4.80 each.

i use the tomato-tone, garden lime, and greensand

I just picked up some of the garden tone, and blood and bone meal and lime. Just mixed it in with my soil. I mixed my old soil from my last grow which was organic, a fresh bag of promix w mykos, 2 tblspoons desert bat guano, 1 TBL bloodmeal, 1TBL bonemeal, 1cup espoma garden tone, 2tblspoons lime, one cup alfalfa meal, 2 cups calcium sand (idk if thats considered green sand or no?) Some coffee grounds, 1tblspoon neptunes harvest fish and kelp. I think thats about it. Does this sound like a good mix? Well I guess i will find out.

My local nursery has all of the espoma line up. Soils, ferts and more. Sadly, they are closed at the moment :/ They also have it at amazing prices too. Way cheaper then FFOF and less of a drive.

Currently using the potting soil for my grow (link in sig) and it working good so far. Plant on the left is showing signs of lack of nitrogen and calcium deficiency. so tell's me I need to throw some dolomite lime in it next time. Also would like to add some additional perlite to the potting mix as it's not absorbing water as fast as I want it... Could be just me though. it's also good for seedlings. Experienced minor hotness with one seedling but you can flush the soil a bit before you plant your been into it.

I'm not sure If that'sgreensand, I know the ggreensand I use is 0-0-7, greensand also contains a fair amount of silica for nice beefy stems. I add a lot of greensand to my mixes , it's cheap and you can't find it in many places for a good buck. It is also very slow release. Very good amendment that won't burn that I'm aware of, I'm using roughly 7lbs per 6ft bale of peat moss or 7lbs per 5cf of coco with very very nice thick woody stalks. Unsure if this is because greensand but I just won't run a mix without it.

Yea I dont think it is greensand, I found a place that has the greensand I need but idk if it has an npk on the label, it just says it has the microbiology needed for certain terreriums...at the pet store they have green sand, but I think its just the color green, haha, not what I am looking for. I did a little reading and calcium sand is just sand comprised mostly of coral reefs. I dont know if it has any living things in it as far as bacteria.

BSD0621 said:

My local nursery has all of the espoma line up. Soils, ferts and more. Sadly, they are closed at the moment :/ They also have it at amazing prices too. Way cheaper then FFOF and less of a drive.

Currently using the potting soil for my grow (link in sig) and it working good so far. Plant on the left is showing signs of lack of nitrogen and calcium deficiency. so tell's me I need to throw some dolomite lime in it next time. Also would like to add some additional perlite to the potting mix as it's not absorbing water as fast as I want it... Could be just me though. it's also good for seedlings. Experienced minor hotness with one seedling but you can flush the soil a bit before you plant your been into it.

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Home Depot carries Epsoma, if your local one does not have in stock...it can be ordered online and shipped free to store from the HD website.

This has me interested as our whole first organic run was Home Depot products. This must be a US thing. Can't find it here in Canada.

Sunbiz1 said:

Home Depot carries Epsoma, if your local one does not have in stock...it can be ordered online and shipped free to store from the HD website.

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HD is a bit far for me so I went to my local nursery (in the town over) and they have more then what I need. HD only carries the fertilizers, not the soil :/ Anyone try a fertilizer stick/spike with their espoma soil?

Like one of these:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-Jobe-s-3-9-lb-Tomato-Plant-Fertilizer-Spike-18-Count-06005/204365960
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Winchester-Gardens-Tomato-Fertilizer-Spikes-18-Count-WG80/203909756
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Winchester-Gardens-Vegetable-Fertilizer-Spikes-18-Count-WG-110/203909730
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Vigoro-3-5-lb-Tomato-and-Vegetable-Garden-Plant-Food-Plus-Calcium-124346/203106474

I have Alaska Fish fertilizer from HD (5-1-1), sunleaves Indonesian bat guano(0.5-12-0.2) and jobes organic heirloom tomato and vegetable plant food (3-5-3)
Experiencing what looks to be nute lock out on one of my plants due to too much phos??

Would love to learn all natural organic growing before spring for my out door crops

DonPetro said:

This has me interested as our whole first organic run was Home Depot products. This must be a US thing. Can't find it here in Canada.

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Espoma IS a US company. I would assume you Canadians have something similar that I don't know of. If I knew i'd let you know.

Well our nearest thing is likely Jobes. I use the organic all-purpose and organic spikes.

Don petro. Look up organically done bytes located in michigan. Get ya some of their shit man.

Nutes☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Anyone run into problems with espoma potting soil??? Check this thread out of my current grow https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-fluorescent-lighting/767204-jungle-wreck-htg-supply-2-a-9.html#post10290987

Looks like nute lock out?? the plant on the right is green and healthy ye the one on the left is getting fucking worse by the day :/ Not sure wtf is causing it!!