Promix soiless...

[J. Greenstein]

Do they sell this stuff in any nurserie's or big box stores? In Ontario that is...thanks in advance.

oh Sunshine Mix 4 would be good as well.

 

[okanogan green]

Hello there. I believe Canadian Tire stocks the stuff you seek. At least in B.C. they have massive piles of bales of Promix at Canadian Tire. They also have Coco Coir fiber blocks as well .Regards.

 

[apartmentblower]

stores like home depot and rona have them too. try not to buy a pallet all at once lol

 

[etncrew]

i often get weird looks rolling out of canadian tire with 4 plus bales of promix. oh well, i pay cash haha

one nursery here charges like 46 bucks per bale, whereas crappy tire charges $25.

 

[.clunk]

I do lots of this kinda shopping at big-box stores, save lots of money and then it's just a trip to wal-mart instead of pulling into the shady hydro-shop.

I bought a bunch of bales of peat moss at Wal-Mart, it was on sale for $5.95/bale so I had them load the back of my truck up then I just bought a couple big bags of perlite from another garden centre, mixed it into my holes then added a bit of lime, I ended up saving quite a bit of money this way.

I always get a few weird looks when I do that kinda shopping at Wal-Mart but I really don't care any more, fuckem! The guy came over to help me load them and looked pretty surprized at how easily I threw a bale on my back then tossed it into the back of my truck, one after another. Practice makes perfect, I guess..

 

[hulkbogan]

That made me laugh, just gotta rock the pruning shears on the belt and old gardening gloves sticking out of your back pocket and you won't get anymore weird looks. 46 bucks is insane mark up on promix or sunshine .. sunshine #4 is 24 bucks at walmart .. thats almost 100% mark up... should start flipping bales of promix thats good money right there.

 

[Beautiful BC]

haha, sounds like that should be the trailer park boys' next Freedom 35 plan.. sell them out of the back of your rusty station wagon at the nursery parking lot!

 

[etncrew]

the only thing i love that nursery for is buying promix bales in the middle of winter.....they are the only place that stocks them year round/is open year round in my immediate vicinity....try asking the clerk at wally world where the bales of promix are in the middle of january. people at the nursery are cool, and i pay cash...plus mrs etncrew comes with me so that makes it look semi legit??? maybe not, either way i couldn't give a shit.

i've gotten pretty good at estimating how much soil i'm gonna burn up from one spring to the next, so i typically stock up in april or may, then refuel if needed at the end of summer when all that type of shit is on sale, then cross my fingers i make it through winter!

i think you're on to something beautiful bc

 

[J. Greenstein]

So any nurseries/big box/walmarts in Ontario carrrying promix or sunshine #4 ??

 

[Learningfirst]

I can score these at my local Indoor Gardening Centre for like 20 Buck Can a Bail... That is a lot of mix. That is in St. Catharines Ontario - I believel it's in the 200 - 400 block of Bunting Rd. - Don't have address atm.

Sales are cool if ya talk shit with them about exactly what your doing - so don't bother talking about tomatoes and peppers. I believe it's this one dude named Dustin. Prices seem pretty good there. I scored my first real ballast and HID and some Nutes to upgrade from my bagseed CFL experiment.

Now I've Got the Cfls for seeds and germ and look forward to eating brains come July ;P

Oh the Zombie Virus is creeping across my box.

Gonna be sweet and Brainy - who know's it might make make me stronger.

Peace.

 

[intotheunknown]

dont waste your time with the pro-mix
ive been having trouble with it in the same mix.
go with lc's mix # 1 instead and use plain peat. also its far less expensive.

 

[Bud Bug]

dont waste your time with the pro-mix
ive been having trouble with it in the same mix.
go with lc's mix # 1 instead and use plain peat. also its far less expensive.

Pro Mix is probably used by 70% of dirt growers in BC the rest is Sunshine #4. If you're having issues you are either re using it or something else is fucked.

 

[jarff]

The newest Pro Mix I see around is BX or HP with Mycorise Pro...The HP is high perosity,with extra perlite.I picked up 30 bales at a distributor in my area for af who runs a small hydro sgop.When I went to the warehouse to pay for it the guy asked about 20 questions wanting my name,address etc.Then when I told him that it was for such and such a hydro shop he said that,ll be $$$$ and seemed upset as he thought I must have been a big grower.......anyhow it was $867.50 for 30 bales tax inc... (about $30. a bale (3.8 cu ft.)...so it is expensive but it is what ppl. want around here.My friend retails for $40. tax inc.No big profit but nevertheless a neccessity for a hydro shop.
It is not available anywhere near my area such as Wal mart CTC,etc,......I use it myself and I do like it.
jarff

 

[J. Greenstein]

dont waste your time with the pro-mix
ive been having trouble with it in the same mix.
go with lc's mix # 1 instead and use plain peat. also its far less expensive.

What is lc's mix #1 and where can you get it?

 

[intotheunknown]

What is lc's mix #1 and where can you get it?

its a mix you have to make yourself. but its cheap to make and really versatile. what kind of nutes are you wanting to use?
are you going with organics?

heres how to make lc's mix-

use a 3quart container as your parts. parts can be whatever you want them to be just make sure they are all equal.

5 parts canadian sphagnum peat moss (plain)
2 parts Earthworm Castings
2 parts perlite
@ 3qts per part this makes just about 1 cubic ft of soiless mix
add 1 cup POWDERED dolomite lime to the cubic ft.
or if you did not use these parts.
add 2 tablespoons dolomite lime PER GALLON of soil mix.
let the soil sit and "cook" for a good two weeks before use. and give it a good mix over everyday.

with this mix, you can do a lot of different things, many different organic nutes can be used with this, even fox farms stuff. etc.

 

[.clunk]

As much as I like organics, try carrying enough of that shit in to fill a hundred 12 gallon holes and you'll be singing a different tune. IMO it's great for hobby growers or small scale, but when you start filling hundreds of holes it's less than convenient, very expensive and time consuming. For commercial just use pro-mix and use whatever chem'd out nutes you want, my favorite flavour is AN heavy harvest.

My local wal-mart sells SO much sunshine mix it's insane, in the last three weeks I've seen their stock run dry, then fill up again only to dissappear in a couple of days again. All 5 of the local hydro grow-stores can't keep enough pro-mix or sunshine in stock (one store said he's getting 750 bales/week and selling out of them within 3 days - usually half the shipment is sold before it even arrives at the store) so Wal-Mart is picking up the slack. Keep in mind that I live in a small town of 10 000 in the middle of fucking nowhere, lots of commercial growers here tho hahaha. They were selling some electronic water timers a while ago too and those went QUICK, they were gone in no time.
Last time I was at Wal-Mart I saw a couple of young guys loading the back of a pickup to the tits with sunshine #4, they must have had 25+ bales crammed in the back of that thing, stacked 3 high then bought a tarp from the camping section, threw it over the back and paid cash with big smiles and walked away. I doubt the guy at the till getting paid 7 dollars an hour cares!

 

[hulkbogan]

I agree that buying organics and bringing them in is a waste of money. I can go to the beach a few hundred feet from some of the swamps I grow in and get garbage bags of seaweed. Iv'e also heard of people digging up a huge pile of grass and throwing it under a tarp to bake for a full year. When you come back next year you have a big pile of great compost for free.

 

[intotheunknown]

its a mix you have to make yourself. but its cheap to make and really versatile. what kind of nutes are you wanting to use?
are you going with organics?

heres how to make lc's mix-

use a 3quart container as your parts. parts can be whatever you want them to be just make sure they are all equal.

5 parts canadian sphagnum peat moss (plain)
2 parts Earthworm Castings
2 parts perlite
@ 3qts per part this makes just about 1 cubic ft of soiless mix
add 1 cup POWDERED dolomite lime to the cubic ft.
or if you did not use these parts.
add 2 tablespoons dolomite lime PER GALLON of soil mix.
let the soil sit and "cook" for a good two weeks before use. and give it a good mix over everyday.

with this mix, you can do a lot of different things, many different organic nutes can be used with this, even fox farms stuff. etc.

wow, interesting... i got negative rep for this post? wtf is with that shit?