perlite with miracle gro! ack!

[criddopher]

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[scruffy]

Make sure the package doesn't say anything about time-release first. Those granules are made to last in a damp environment for several weeks. Rinsing might not totally dissolve them. Maybe give it to your neighbor to kill their flowers? Short of being a pain to drive back to the store, I'd just get another bag. I buy perlite in huge sacks from my local Agway store. I had to get a few houseplants to explain why all my flowerbeds have perlite in them! My tomatoes did really well this year in the old promix.

 

[Guest]

Whoever started this playing MG products as bad for your plants was nothing but a terrible grower. I know many growers, myself included, who have done real well with MG products. The key is to understand that you can't add other ferts to the soil until the original time release ferts have been used up. If you do you will burn your plants. Are there better ferts in my opinion? Yes. MG is a strong chemical fert and should be treated as such.

Awesome reply

 

[criddopher]

ok thanks for the replies.



I have nothing against MG .... Its \just im using this stuff in the soil mix to start my beans that just popped.. kinda afraid they are gonna die from the nutes.. i rinsed it all and ill see what happens. ill have to check agway out.. i dont know why i never thought to go there for supplies

 

[Blackvelvet]

You can rinse the ferts out of MG perlite. Its only sprayed on. Biggest problem with mg ferts is its 100% ammonia or urea nitrogen and not nitrate. This is toxic to plants in containers and especially young seedlings. It will resemble calcium defciency. See ammonia toxicity in the sticky "the complete guide to sick plants" in the cannabis infirmary.

 

[alphacat]

I'd politely beg to differ with MG advocates. It may grow your plants fine, but only if you want your smoke to have a half-life.

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=62487

Miracle Gro - and many other chem nutes - do indeed contain radioactive ingredients. In fact, when Miracle Gro was first released onto the market in the 50's (before people fully understood the long term buildup/toxicity issues), they used to advertise about their proprietary blend of stuff including 'radioactive isotopes'. When the public started getting wiser about the issue they discreetly dropped the isotope reference, but not the actual compounds.

 

[Reality]

I'd politely beg to differ with MG advocates. It may grow your plants fine, but only if you want your smoke to have a half-life.

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=62487

Miracle Gro - and many other chem nutes - do indeed contain radioactive ingredients. In fact, when Miracle Gro was first released onto the market in the 50's (before people fully understood the long term buildup/toxicity issues), they used to advertise about their proprietary blend of stuff including 'radioactive isotopes'. When the public started getting wiser about the issue they discreetly dropped the isotope reference, but not the actual compounds.

does this isotope thing exist in miracle grow organic soil???

 

[scruffy]

I really have nothing against (or for, for that matter) Miracle Gro. I know that a lot of their stuff is advertised as "time-release". If it's sprayed-on, as has been said, no biggie then. I still use Peter's 20-20-20 on my flowers outside, works fine when used wisely.

 

[panopticist]

It's not that you can't grow with Miracle Grow. My first Snow White grow was done in their Organic line. I think it was a soil enriched with chicken shit, which ran a bit hot, but worked none the less.

I'm now using a soil mix with no premixed nutes. I like it much better as I can pace the nutrient supplements with the growth of the plant.

 

[alphacat]

Reality - honestly I don't know if the Miracle Gro organic has radioactive components or not. You'd think not if it was OMRI certified, but it might be worth checking out further... or going with some additive-free soil and mixing/composting your own nute supplements, like Panopticist mentions.

 

[Kenny Lingus]

almost anything is radioactive... Some are more than others, but all things have radiation.

 

[new-n-scured]

cridd i used that same perlite for my "fun guys" and all i did was rinse the piss out of it and i never had problems