espoma organic potting mix

[stanky bud]

Anybody ever used this stuff?? I bought a bag of it today and it looks pretty good. It says it contains 45-55% sphagum peat moss, peat humus, perlite, dolomitic lime and enhanced with myco-tone mycorrhizae. Looks like it needs some more perlite. Should I add some castings and maybe a little more lime?

 

[ozeek]

sounds good were did you get it

 

[Muleskinner]

wow, looks great on their website, I hope it gets distributed widely. it would be the first good organic mix available anywhere near my area. there's a ton of small gardening places that carry espoma though

 

[stanky bud]

i got it from a local nursery. I've never tried fox farm soils so I dont really know how it compares to that stuff, but its like half the price of the fox farms. The only other stuff I can find around here is Miracle gro and this looks alot better.

 

[mad librettist]

I haven't used it but I've had good experiences with other espoma products.

 

[big ballin 88]

I haven't used it but I've had good experiences with other espoma products.

I agree with ML.

I really like the Epsoma starter mix plus. they have some good products, I wouldn't imagine this one being different.

 

[banjobrain]

Anybody ever used this stuff?? I bought a bag of it today and it looks pretty good. It says it contains 45-55% sphagum peat moss, peat humus, perlite, dolomitic lime and enhanced with myco-tone mycorrhizae. Looks like it needs some more perlite. Should I add some castings and maybe a little more lime?

I am a novice cannabis grower, but I am an experienced nurseryman & green thumb.

Espoma products are very good and of the highest quality. I imagine that it would be more than suitable for cannabis cultivation.

Good luck!

 

[Dreamscape]

i've heard espoma is good stuff BUT that its easy to burn your plants with it.

I was told to follow the maxim "less is more" with espoma.

 

[banjobrain]

i've heard espoma is good stuff BUT that its easy to burn your plants with it.

I was told to follow the maxim "less is more" with espoma.

I heard that the moon is made of green cheese. Perhaps I am becoming a "reagan republican," Trust, but verify.

It depends on what product you're using...Espoma products cover anything from potting soil to plant food/nutrients.

If you buy a product for it's intended purpose and use it as directed, there should be no reason for burn. The most experienced gardener I know uses nothing but Plant-tone in his vegetable garden. He loves it because it is organic, easy to use and produced excellent results. I have never heard him mention anything about burn.

When using a new product, I always start at 1/2 strength and work up. Anything will burn if used in excess...

 

[GreenThumbBumb]

I love bio-tone, try searching for espoma on amazon, they have a lot of different products, even liquid bio-tone.

 

[banjobrain]

I love bio-tone, try searching for espoma on amazon, they have a lot of different products, even liquid bio-tone.

Big fan of bio-tone here...

 

[mad librettist]

three cheers for bio-tone!

Other than bone and blood (I think), it has all kinds of raw microbe foods that are not too quickly consumed, like feather meal and cocoa meal, and good stuff like greensand. I am right now successfully flowering one of my plants in "new" soil that has only bio-tone and a bit of blood meal as dry ferts.

 

[big ballin 88]

Make that a fourth for bio tone starter plus.

Its good stuff and is my favorite. I mix it with a little bit of rainbow mix just for the rock dusts and guano's. i'm stuck on Epsoma now i really like the quality of their products. Not to mention not expensive.

 

[Johnny Rotten]

Five cheers for Espoma....excellent quality and very reliable....also easy to find and affordable. Use it on the whole veggie garden.

I think they started adding the beneficial in Bio-Tone to their other lines. Bought a couple 40 lb. bags of Plant-Tone and it had them added.

 

[barletta]

Go Bio tone!

But yeah, you can burn your plants with too much espoma cottonseed meal and too much biotone, too soon . FWIW, ALL soils need a shitload more perlite and/or coco added to them, imho (unless you can't be around every 2nd or 3rd day to water)