Miracle grow perlite

[bostrom155]

My local grocer had a 1/2 price sale on MG Perlite, and spag peat. So I bought alot. I'm in a peat, perlite, lime mix. My nutes are PBP grow and bloom and Jam bat shit.
The MG stuff has nutes at around .04-.01-.06 of liquid mg, will this in anyway screw up my organic mix?

 

[crunkinshoe]

If your using miracle grow it's not really organic anymore....

 

[bostrom155]

If your using miracle grow it's not really organic anymore....

So your saying the small amount of mg nutes in the perlite is going to screw up my mix. Could you be more specific on exaclly what is going to be the end result.
I can use it in my wick cloner if i have to, as not to waste it.

 

[crunkinshoe]

I'm not knocking miracle grow but If you want to go all organic (which I'm kinda partial to :wink: ) you'll have to ditch it. It's not going to mess things up (especially that small amount) but...

 

[Guest]

why the hell do they put nutes in perlite? MG is a weird company

 

[sproutco]

Don't throw it out! If the mg soil has a liquid plant food in it then just use alot of water when you are first transplanting the plant and wetting the soil for the first time. It will wash out of the soil. You don't want mg soil with slow release ferts in them.

 

[Makavellian]

what's wrong with miracle gro soil ?

 

[bostrom155]

Don't throw it out! If the mg soil has a liquid plant food in it then just use alot of water when you are first transplanting the plant and wetting the soil for the first time. It will wash out of the soil. You don't want mg soil with slow release ferts in them.

It's just the perlite that has the mg in it. plus a small bag of peat into a 33 gallon of recycled peat mix

 

[crunkinshoe]

what's wrong with miracle gro soil ?

Works fine but it's not organic.... thats all.

 

[Suby]

Hey Bostrum what's cooking dude?

OK so don't panic, remember where not here to be hardcore organic spasmics, we're just after a safe and sweet smoke which on the whole is organic.

The perlite despite anything they add will be fine, remember it's only ~30% of your mix and I always recommend washing it out before pouring it out and using it anyway, perlite doesn't hold water well so most of watever shit they added will wash away clean enough.

If you picked up the MG soil with slow release ferts I would save it for the tomatoes, it's slow release type fert they use in the soil and it can burn seedling and as pointed not "organic" but then again it is a very small amount and an established plant will have wiped it out before the next transplant.

the ? is how anal do you want to get, using PBPro sin't 100%organic but it gives really good results and rests on the basic principles of organic growing...

 

[bostrom155]

Hey Suby,
Yea I'm a sucker for sales, and $1.25 a bag was hard to pass up, finally just used up the huge bag of perlite from Home depot. I'll wash it off, good idea. And I'm with you on the PBPro (hydro agent) and do bat shit the last 3 weeks or so.
Guess I was worried about the salt in it or whatever, throwing my mix off over a few saved dollars. Didn;t even think about it till I bought 6 bags.

PS I'm ready for the fan clearances this fall at the stores

 

[Suby]

Hey don't get me wrong the PBPro is an EXCELLENT fert especially the soil bloom formula, even I cheat and use it sometimes if I've been too busy to make tea.
I have two elicient fans inline that will be collecting dust as of december, too bad your not my neighbour.

 

[dwtc]

what about the mc organic soil? do they put non organic sheite in it?
would like to know seen as i got 4 bags of the stuff,,,,,,,,,dwtc

p.s. my plants seem to like it

 

[Suby]

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How is Organic Choice™ Garden Soil different from regular Miracle-Gro® Garden Soil?
Organic Choice contains all-natural, organic ingredients, including sphagnum peat moss, composted manure, and an organic wetting agent to help the product retain moisture. Regular Miracle-Gro Garden Soil contains the same materials, but uses a conventional wetting agent and plant food found in the Miracle-Gro and Osmocote® plant food products.

off their website.

Suby