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mogie
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This info describes the Fox Farm product you mentioned.
Ocean Forest Potting Soil starts seedlings naturally so they can become strong, vigorous plants.
Plant directly into FoxFarm Ocean Forest Potting Soil for exceptional results, it's ready-to-use. No additional ingredients are required. Use as a potting soil for indoor or outdoor potted plants.
Super start for seeds and seedlings. Light texture for excellent aeration and drainage properties. No additional fertilizers needed for as long as 30 days.
Ocean Forest Potting Soil starts seedlings naturally so they can become strong, vigorous plants.
Plant directly into FoxFarm Ocean Forest Potting Soil for exceptional results, it's ready-to-use. No additional ingredients are required. Use as a potting soil for indoor or outdoor potted plants.
Super start for seeds and seedlings. Light texture for excellent aeration and drainage properties. No additional fertilizers needed for as long as 30 days.
Lothar of the Hill People
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Ocean Forest is just fine out of the bag. They don't add any chemical nutes, so it's just good, rich soil.
It does, like all soils, compact when watered, and compacted soil is harder for young roots to penetrate. To make to Ocean Forest even better for seedlings, you can improve the texture by adding some perlite (available in the garden section of Home Depot) at a 1:1 ratio with the soil. My personal seedling mix is 1:1:1 of soil
erlite:vermiculite. Great for cloning.
Perlite is an item you never have enough of on hand. I always put about an inch at the bottom of my pots, and never have drainage related problems like root rot.
It does, like all soils, compact when watered, and compacted soil is harder for young roots to penetrate. To make to Ocean Forest even better for seedlings, you can improve the texture by adding some perlite (available in the garden section of Home Depot) at a 1:1 ratio with the soil. My personal seedling mix is 1:1:1 of soil
erlite:vermiculite. Great for cloning.Perlite is an item you never have enough of on hand. I always put about an inch at the bottom of my pots, and never have drainage related problems like root rot.
rhino4life
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i get Pro Mix B from local hydro store ..seems to work great to me...$40 bucks for 4 square yards..can't beat it.
Lothar of the Hill People
Active Member
Right on! My local hydro shop has enormous bags of the stuff that you'd never think you could ever use up for like $20. Vermiculite too.
Correct on the mix!
When they're old enough for feeding and flowering, go to a more soil-heavy mix, about 2:1.
Correct on the mix!
When they're old enough for feeding and flowering, go to a more soil-heavy mix, about 2:1.