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growit1234
Who makes pro mix and where is it available? I have been reading about several grows usings Pro-mix. Thought I might check it out. Any thoughts?
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JACKBAYBEH
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My local home depot carries it. If you can't find it there, try your
local indoor/hydro gardening center. They should have it for sure. :smile:
local indoor/hydro gardening center. They should have it for sure. :smile:
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premier pro mix
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Yeah, Home Depot is the only place I have seen it. I've only recently switched my room to Pro-Mix and currently have about 200 gallons of my soil mix circulating throughout. It has the standard soil gnats and seems to have the Mg deficiency most other commercial potting soils have when growing cannabis. I'm very happy with the soil even though I have found a few MiracleGrow-esqe sticks decomposing in it. Cost of doing business (CODB) aparrently.
kilacaLIbud
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im using the original super soil ...i fuckin love it ..has bat guano and all this great stuff but it also has gnats...and i was thinkin of changing it 2 pro mix ..but if it also has gnats....then nevermind.....thanks..
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I dont know if theres an Agway where youre at but thats where i get it.Works great,i just add a ton of perlite. 
kilacaLIbud
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y would organics ...make them hatch?? i use fish emultions and bat guano. and ive used miracle grow b4 and they still were there...?whats the diff
CaptainChronic
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Ive never had any gnats in fox farms ocean forest soil. It has like 20 diferent organic things in it. At 20 bucks a bag tho, it better be good gnat free organic soil damnit! haha
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99% of soil you buy has gnats in it because the eggs are already in the soil waiting to hatch.
its easy to prevent them from hatching though, simply throw a layer of pertlite over the top of the soil and the little bastards will have a VERY hard time making it up.
another thing you can do is pasteurize your soil to sterilize it.
the ocean forest soil is sterile, most the shit in the bag you buy isnt...hence the price diff.
its easy to prevent them from hatching though, simply throw a layer of pertlite over the top of the soil and the little bastards will have a VERY hard time making it up.
another thing you can do is pasteurize your soil to sterilize it.
the ocean forest soil is sterile, most the shit in the bag you buy isnt...hence the price diff.
CaptainChronic
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good to know. I always knew it was worth the extra $$. My plants frigin love that Ocean Forest soil.
JACKBAYBEH
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I actually use the promix and FF ocean forest in combination.
Cut it about 2 to 1, adding more perlite to the bottom 1/3 of my pots.
Never have any problems. I usually get by without having to use any additional ferts for the next 2-3 weeks after transplanting. Love'em both.
Cut it about 2 to 1, adding more perlite to the bottom 1/3 of my pots.
Never have any problems. I usually get by without having to use any additional ferts for the next 2-3 weeks after transplanting. Love'em both.
Pactivist
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It all depends
It all depends
hey Dances, i get my pro-mix at agway also and you can't beat their prices, then there is the added benefit that my local agway keeps their pro-mix indoors, in a wharehouse. i have found this to practically eliminate fungus gnats from my grows. see i used to buy my pro-mix from a little garden store down the road from me, but theirs is stored outside under a little lean-to and always ends up with me dealing with literally thousands of those little bastards(the gnats) but with the bales from agway it is pretty rare for me to have any gnats. So this is kinda what i've been thinking, when pro-mix is made it is probably gnat egg free, but due to sloppy shipping and storage, gnats are able to lay their eggs in the bales. then when you get it wet the eggs hatch out rather quickly. i guess that if this was true then any bale of pro-mix with no holes in it would still be gnat free eh?
what do you guys think?
peAce pacT
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hey Dances, i get my pro-mix at agway also and you can't beat their prices, then there is the added benefit that my local agway keeps their pro-mix indoors, in a wharehouse. i have found this to practically eliminate fungus gnats from my grows. see i used to buy my pro-mix from a little garden store down the road from me, but theirs is stored outside under a little lean-to and always ends up with me dealing with literally thousands of those little bastards(the gnats) but with the bales from agway it is pretty rare for me to have any gnats. So this is kinda what i've been thinking, when pro-mix is made it is probably gnat egg free, but due to sloppy shipping and storage, gnats are able to lay their eggs in the bales. then when you get it wet the eggs hatch out rather quickly. i guess that if this was true then any bale of pro-mix with no holes in it would still be gnat free eh?
what do you guys think?
peAce pacT
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Dramajic said:
I have grown with at least five major brands of potting soils over the last five years and every one had gnats, every bag, every time. No exceptions.
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Thats is the reason i am not growing with soil..
Those dayum bugs... But as far as soil for outdoors whats better FF ocean forrest or Pro-mix? thanx.. peace
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Those dayum bugs... But as far as soil for outdoors whats better FF ocean forrest or Pro-mix? thanx.. peace
sack :friends:
allmanbroskif
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for outdoor?? unless youre some tycoon and can afford huge ass amounts of prebagged ocean forest, id say go with promix. hell even if ff was affordable i still say go with promix.
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Hello i use the pro mix hp ...i have not found to many gnats in the mix i use..i also use a neem soil drench with my first introduction of the new soil to stop the gnats from developing..
take care
greenfriend
take care
greenfriend
