Roots organics soils for Outdoors?

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Willie Nillly

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Any one have experience with roots soil outdoors?Looking to fill two 30 gallon pots for my outdoor plants. Not looking to break the bank but would like to get something decent that will get things started. I'll be feeding the roots powdered line. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
 
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compassionateExotic

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If using roots organic dry line, look into the bigger bags. it sounds all cool to use the 3-9lb bags but when u do math of per lb it’s def a major difference and def why u buy 20-440lb versions cause most of time 2-4x cheapers. If you got a local store request or see if they can preorder such
 
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Phytoplankton

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Willie Nillly said:
Looking to fill two 30 gallon pots for my outdoor plants. Not looking to break the bank but would like to get something decent that will get things started.
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I don't know where you're located, but I use Fox Farms Ocean Forest, very similar to Roots. I get FFOF for $25 a 3 cu ft. bag, but I'm close to where it's made. If you're in northern Ca. I can give you a good place to buy it.
 
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Willie Nillly

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Phytoplankton said:
I don't know where you're located, but I use Fox Farms Ocean Forest, very similar to Roots. I get FFOF for $25 a 3 cu ft. bag, but I'm close to where it's made. If you're in northern Ca. I can give you a good place to buy it.
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Yeah I'm about 2200 mi east of you and it's about 40 bucks for a 3 ft bag. Thinking about getting a bag or 2 of that maybe mix in some pro mix HP add in a little worm castings that should get them started at least and then amend with my Roots organic dry amendments after a few weeks.Might downsize to 20 gallon containers because it's not a problem getting water to them.
 
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Phytoplankton

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Willie Nillly said:
Yeah I'm about 2200 mi east of you and it's about 40 bucks for a 3 ft bag. Thinking about getting a bag or 2 of that maybe mix in some pro mix HP add in a little worm castings that should get them started at least and then amend with my Roots organic dry amendments after a few weeks.Might downsize to 20 gallon containers because it's not a problem getting water to them.


Sounds like a good plan, $40 a 3 cu. ft. bag isn't a terrible price, most grow places sell the 1.5 bags for about $30-$35 a bag. A couple years ago, I was getting the 1.5's for $9 a bag, but inflation ate that up. The place I go is a bulk soil distributer, with a small grow shop, they have 50 plus different brands and hundreds of pallets of bagged soil.
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Phytoplankton

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I used to live in Eureka, I'm now a couple hundred miles south, but still "coastal". Beautiful country, sparsely populated, great place to grow. I used to plant around this time, as long as it's warm enough, there should be a long enough photoperiod.
 
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