Miracle Grow Organic Choice Garden Soil anyone?

Don't use it! I'm a beginner at this but I've read alot and they all say don't do it. I did. I just paid 25bucks for shipping and handling for two bags of Roots organic soil. I got em from htgsuppy.com. The bags each cost $17plus s&h. If u can't afford the shipping research the indredients. Then try ace hardware or whatever else is near you.

 

Dude my two plants are in preflowering and healthy in organic choice. I added some broke up lava rocks and perlite though. Next time ill add wormcastings though for alil nitrogen and benefits it adds to soil.

 

Yea mine doin well in like 3 gallon pots in the organic choice potting mix 10% lava rocks 30% perlite 60%pottingmix

 

don't put seedlings in pre-ferted anything. it is very likely they will get burnt! the cotyledons provide all they need for the first couple weeks.

 

[quote name='Richard and Sal']Don't use it! I'm a beginner at this but I've read alot and they all say don't do it. I did. I just paid 25bucks for shipping and handling for two bags of Roots organic soil. I got em from htgsuppy.com. The bags each cost $17plus s&h. If u can't afford the shipping research the indredients. Then try ace hardware or whatever else is near


Don't give advice if you dont know what your talking about!!!
Miracle grow organic is excellent for growing, the organic doesnt have any time release fertalizer. I got 6 plants outdoors in it and they are thriving. I just finshed a grow in it plants and bud were awesome. Had 2 in fox farm and 2 in organic. You could not tell the difference in plant vigour or yeild.

 

70's is right about mg. i'm not a user of it, but someone here did a test grow with some mg. it worked well, but it takes some getting used to.

 

My bad of MG organic choice says that it feeds continously for up to two months. Doesn't this mean it has time released nutrients? I was just trying to be helpful and pass along info I've read and my own experiance with the product. I also stated that I am new at this too. Sorry if you don't like that.

 

I'm using mg moisture control and plants doing fine man mine feeds up to 6 months but I picked out a lot of lil golden balls

 

Mine doesn't have any time release in it..... 70's did you use pots or in ground?

 

I have been using smart pots. With smart pots you do have to water mor freqently.
When it says it feeds for 2 months is because it has organic fertelizer( chicken manure)mixed in with it. I'll post some pics of 6 plants i have growing in it as soon as i get my camera back from my son lol. Havent feed them any nutes yet and there about 40" tall.

 

I dont care what kind of ferts it has the point is that it has ferts in it seedlings dont need any ferts at all for the first 2 weeks of there life none at all u can transplant ur seedlings into it after they r old enough an it will wrk gr8 but its no good for sprouts

 

Well^^^ my plants in miracle grow with nitrogen its only 6 days old n its seeming to do fine I just dnt water much because it has those time released nitrogen balls

 

i dont like pre-ferted mediums. i like to know what they're eating! if you're using pre-ferted, you need to feed on same schedule, but at a reduced rate to avoid burning.

 

No worries, you were trying to be helpful and this is a confusing subject.

MG Organic is different from the other MG soils. The other MG soils have time-released ferts in them, little balls of chemical fertilizer designed to dissolve slowly over weeks or months with each watering. That's bad for MJ growing for several reasons: it means the soil is nuted from the very beginning, which can kill baby sprouts; the nutes are too strong for any part of an MJ grow really; they are cheap chemical ferts so aren't as easy for the plants to uptake; they are one type of fert (veg) and so aren't great for flowering; they are a nute balance that you may not want and cannot control; and, you can't flush them out (in fact, flushing could make it worse because the excess water will only dissolve even more of the nutes). MG actually adds these time-released ferts not just to their standard soils but also to other products like their sphagnum moss and even their perlite.

MG Organic does not have these time-released chemical ferts. But, Miracle Gro never can leave well enough alone, so even in their Organic soil they add organic compounds to increase the nutrient level.

It's virtually impossible for organic or semi-organic soil to not include some nutrients, that's a lot of what the organic matter is. So, in effect, "organic" = "pre-ferted" to an extent. Take Fox Farm Ocean Forest, probably the single most popular ready-mix soil among MJ growers -- it has worm castings, bat guano, fish meal, seaweed, sphagnum moss, and composted forest floor mulch, all of which contain some nutrients. Plants can handle organic nutes much better, though (or more specifically, the symbiotic fungal colonies that live on your plant's root system and break down the nutes for them can handle organics much better). So generally not much to worry about with organic nutes. However, MG adds concentrates of these organic nute compounds to their organic soil, so it comes out a little stronger than you might expect.

Bottom line is that you can use it but there are better choices, including mixing your own.

 

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