soil from diy store

growwwww · Dec 19, 2008

hypnotiQ said:
The soil you bought should be fine, here's what I would do though. Buy a equal size portion of pro-mix, sunshine mix, canadian sphagum peat moss, (whatever you want to call it.) Then mix the 2 bags together for even consistency. Now get a big bag of regulaur perlite and mix that in there. You want a lot of perlite 20-40%, your plants are going to love you for it. Now since you have all that peatmoss add some dololimte lime, this is essential! Use 1 tablespoon per gallon of soil mixed in evenly for each pot.

I guarantee you this will be a good plant growing medium.

all of that sutff is unavailable in the garden store i go to its very commercial and doesnt specialise in gardening its in a diy place. oh well im hoping for the best.

7th1der · Dec 19, 2008

panhead said:
Not all mg perlite has nutes in it,i do know the shit your talking about though,i wasnt paying attention & bought that shit,never again,it turned yellow & being that i wasnt paying attention i added my standard 30% perlite to the mix,after a week when shit started turning yellow i looked it over and sure enough it was the fertilized shit.

Had to transplant everything & toss the soil out.

Please don't scar me like that. lol Thats my biggest fear. I do have some Ocean Forest but I just would love for my Miracle Grow bag seed to be a healthy female. It hasn't showed sex yet, and the only problem I see is that there are light grey spots on it and a few leaves have natural rips in them. Is that normal? I may put a picture of the leaves when they wake up.

B3ANFLICKER · Dec 19, 2008

hypnotiQ said:
The soil you bought should be fine, here's what I would do though. Buy a equal size portion of pro-mix, sunshine mix, canadian sphagum peat moss, (whatever you want to call it.) Then mix the 2 bags together for even consistency. Now get a big bag of regulaur perlite and mix that in there. You want a lot of perlite 20-40%, your plants are going to love you for it. Now since you have all that peatmoss add some dololimte lime, this is essential! Use 1 tablespoon per gallon of soil mixed in evenly for each pot.

I guarantee you this will be a good plant growing medium.

whos soil should be ok?
Your all sayin get soil without nutes.......but there isnt any.Anyone living in the UK can u please help me out,where do u get your soil from?iv been to homebase and BnQ n none of them have soil without nutes,they all have some..................

growwwww · Dec 19, 2008

B3ANFLICKER said:
whos soil should be ok?
Your all sayin get soil without nutes.......but there isnt any.Anyone living in the UK can u please help me out,where do u get your soil from?iv been to homebase and BnQ n none of them have soil without nutes,they all have some..................

hes saying mine should be okay i got homebase compost with nutes in it im just hoping for the best really and i also got homebase perlite anyway i donno. :weed:

B3ANFLICKER · Dec 19, 2008

i got the homebase perlite too,got the john innes organic compost too,englands diy shops r shit,u got any other ideas.cuz all the soils iv found hav some sort of nutes in?hed shops too expensive

growwwww · Dec 19, 2008

B3ANFLICKER said:
i got the homebase perlite too,got the john innes organic compost too,englands diy shops r shit,u got any other ideas.cuz all the soils iv found hav some sort of nutes in?hed shops too expensive

i saw that shit on the net of homebases website. none in store!!! they had nothing so just brought homebase compost to be honest britain is just shit for this kind of stuff

B3ANFLICKER · Dec 19, 2008

growwwww said:
i saw that shit on the net of homebases website. none in store!!! they had nothing so just brought homebase compost to be honest britain is just shit for this kind of stuff

do u reckon john innes is guna be alrite?havent used it yet so i could take it back if anyones got any other ideas?

thephantompain1990 · Dec 19, 2008

you could always order some online but its pretty expensive with shipping because soil is heavy

you have no gardening stores or anything like that around you?

maybe even a hydroponics store?

B3ANFLICKER · Dec 20, 2008

icepik1234 said:
you could always order some online but its pretty expensive with shipping because soil is heavy

you have no gardening stores or anything like that around you?

maybe even a hydroponics store?

im guna travel around today n look for one.if not what soil should i be lookin for/buy?

gangjababy · Dec 20, 2008

there have to be hydro stores in the u.k. Don't the hydro stores there also sell seeds? You want promix or something similar, there is soil without nutes, you just aren't looking hard enough.

radioOFF · Nov 24, 2010

panhead said:
Thats one hell of an expensive soil to reccomend, infact its the most expensive soil on the market,not much benifit to using a soil like fox farms when the content & results can be easily replicated using off the shelf supplies from home depot at 1/10th the cost.

Back to the question at hand.

I make my own soil mix from products bought straight from home depot.

Potting soil......40%.

Top Soil..........20%.

Perlite............30%

Masons sand...10%

Excellent drainage,quick dry time & no added anything like fertilizers that screw up the grow.

This sounds like a viable option for myself. What should I look for on the package to stay away from? Aren't all potting soils going to have something that's time released though? Nitrogen or something right? I just have a fear of going to the store and all the mixs having nutrient listings on the back of the packaging and I'll not know what's what.

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