MG Brand Organic Soil Amendments?

[Iron_Lion]

Im looking to add some bone meal and blood meal to my soil mix but the only brand I can find locally is Miracle Grow brand bone & blood. It's an hour + drive to the hydro store and I wasn't planning on going out there til the end of next month so a local choice is best right now.

From a moral standpoint I really hate to purchase or use anything made by MG but is there any way this would be worse than other brands?

I notice the NPK on the MG brand bone and blood is a little different than Espoma brand but in theory they should be the same shit?

 

[guest2012y]

What about local garden centers and nurseries? If that's what you want to use,and all you can source then it sounds like you don't have a choice.
It's all made from the the same mammals anyway and is probably supplied by a major manufacturer who also supplies other companies as well. That's usually the case,but who knows.

 

[Iron_Lion]

What about local garden centers and nurseries? If that's what you want to use,and all you can source then it sounds like you don't have a choice.
It's all made from the the same mammals anyway and is probably supplied by a major manufacturer who also supplies other companies as well. That's usually the case,but who knows.

I just bought the MG, it's weird seeing MG brand shit in my grow room but I searched around online and couldnt find anything bad about the MG bone and blood, it says no cow bones are used so that's a plus.

I could have went to a garden center or something even most of those are too far or their selection sucks. Every store I go to I usually check the garden supplies, most places just have MG but I found out lowes has Espoma brand fertilizer but only MG brand bone and blood.

 

[guest2012y]

A lot more garden centers nowadays carry more organic amendments than they did a few years ago,you should check them out. They are often lacking in the canna-select organic weed snob items though,but organic gardening is very popular and even squares are looking for blood and bone meal.

 

[mostnonymouse]

amazon.com?

 

[igrowone]

i use the MG Bone Meal, it has treated me well
the bone is from pig bones - you can look at this as helping out in getting rid of a waste product that otherwise might end up in some landfill

 

[Iron_Lion]

A lot more garden centers nowadays carry more organic amendments than they did a few years ago,you should check them out. They are often lacking in the canna-select organic weed snob items though,but organic gardening is very popular and even squares are looking for blood and bone meal.

Lately I have seen organic gardening take a giant leap forward in popularity. About 5 years or so ago when I started growing my first grow was done with junk sourced from home depot and walmart, back then they had no organic fertilizer at all.

Flash forward to today, I found alaska fish emulsion at the hardware store, bone and blood at walmart, and I lowes I found more bone and blood and quite a good selection of Espoma brand fertilizers. So you could grow some pretty good weed without even having to go to hydro stores. I still use a few more pot-snob only ingredients but in a jam it's nice to know I could get stuff at normal stores.

 

[guest2012y]

Lately I have seen organic gardening take a giant leap forward in popularity. About 5 years or so ago when I started growing my first grow was done with junk sourced from home depot and walmart, back then they had no organic fertilizer at all.

Flash forward to today, I found alaska fish emulsion at the hardware store, bone and blood at walmart, and I lowes I found more bone and blood and quite a good selection of Espoma brand fertilizers. So you could grow some pretty good weed without even having to go to hydro stores. I still use a few more pot-snob only ingredients but in a jam it's nice to know I could get stuff at normal stores.

I'm also seeing a lot of run-o-the mill hardware stores like Ace,garden centers,etc. starting to carry Neptune's Harvest fish hydrolysate and also Neptune's acadian kelp extract. Usually costs a lot less than the hydro-store and much better fish product than the Alaskan emulsion.