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bostrom155 · 08-27-2006, 06:38 PM

My local grocer had a 1/2 price sale on MG Perlite, and spag peat. So I bought alot. I'm in a peat, perlite, lime mix. My nutes are PBP grow and bloom and Jam bat shit.
The MG stuff has nutes at around .04-.01-.06 of liquid mg, will this in anyway screw up my organic mix?

crunkinshoe · 08-27-2006, 07:25 PM

If your using miracle grow it's not really organic anymore....

bostrom155 · 08-27-2006, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by crunkinshoe

If your using miracle grow it's not really organic anymore....

So your saying the small amount of mg nutes in the perlite is going to screw up my mix. Could you be more specific on exaclly what is going to be the end result.
I can use it in my wick cloner if i have to, as not to waste it.

crunkinshoe · 08-27-2006, 08:13 PM

I'm not knocking miracle grow but If you want to go all organic (which I'm kinda partial to :wink: ) you'll have to ditch it. It's not going to mess things up (especially that small amount) but...

08-28-2006, 05:21 AM

why the hell do they put nutes in perlite? MG is a weird company

sproutco · 08-28-2006, 06:59 AM

Don't throw it out! If the mg soil has a liquid plant food in it then just use alot of water when you are first transplanting the plant and wetting the soil for the first time. It will wash out of the soil. You don't want mg soil with slow release ferts in them.

Makavellian · 08-28-2006, 07:02 AM

what's wrong with miracle gro soil ?

bostrom155 · 08-28-2006, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sproutco

Don't throw it out! If the mg soil has a liquid plant food in it then just use alot of water when you are first transplanting the plant and wetting the soil for the first time. It will wash out of the soil. You don't want mg soil with slow release ferts in them.

It's just the perlite that has the mg in it. plus a small bag of peat into a 33 gallon of recycled peat mix

crunkinshoe · 08-28-2006, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Makavellian

what's wrong with miracle gro soil ?

Works fine but it's not organic.... thats all.

Suby · 08-28-2006, 09:26 PM

Hey Bostrum what's cooking dude?

OK so don't panic, remember where not here to be hardcore organic spasmics, we're just after a safe and sweet smoke which on the whole is organic.

The perlite despite anything they add will be fine, remember it's only ~30% of your mix and I always recommend washing it out before pouring it out and using it anyway, perlite doesn't hold water well so most of watever shit they added will wash away clean enough.

If you picked up the MG soil with slow release ferts I would save it for the tomatoes, it's slow release type fert they use in the soil and it can burn seedling and as pointed not "organic" but then again it is a very small amount and an established plant will have wiped it out before the next transplant.

the ? is how anal do you want to get, using PBPro sin't 100%organic but it gives really good results and rests on the basic principles of organic growing...

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Suby AWD Aficianado Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the healing arms of planet love. Posts: 2,435	Hey Bostrum what's cooking dude? OK so don't panic, remember where not here to be hardcore organic spasmics, we're just after a safe and sweet smoke which on the whole is organic. The perlite despite anything they add will be fine, remember it's only ~30% of your mix and I always recommend washing it out before pouring it out and using it anyway, perlite doesn't hold water well so most of watever shit they added will wash away clean enough. If you picked up the MG soil with slow release ferts I would save it for the tomatoes, it's slow release type fert they use in the soil and it can burn seedling and as pointed not "organic" but then again it is a very small amount and an established plant will have wiped it out before the next transplant. the ? is how anal do you want to get, using PBPro sin't 100%organic but it gives really good results and rests on the basic principles of organic growing... __________________ Organic Fanatic Collective Suby's Kitchen The "Beer" Fridge ~Pimp Your Organic Fertilizer~
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crunkinshoe keyboard city Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 150	I'm not knocking miracle grow but If you want to go all organic (which I'm kinda partial to :wink: ) you'll have to ditch it. It's not going to mess things up (especially that small amount) but...
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sproutco Banned Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,645	Don't throw it out! If the mg soil has a liquid plant food in it then just use alot of water when you are first transplanting the plant and wetting the soil for the first time. It will wash out of the soil. You don't want mg soil with slow release ferts in them.
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