Has anyone used Baccto Pro Planting Mix?

I am using a Baccto Pro Mix I found with about 50% Coco/Perlite mixed in.

Has anyone tried anything like this before?

Our most popular blend, this pre-moistened planting mix is formulated to enhance the growth of bedding and potted crops in flats, pots, and hanging baskets.

Mix Characteristics Include:

• pH-stable horticutural sphagnum peat and perlite
• Lime addition for high-capacity buffering
• A balanced blend of major and minor elements and wetting agent
• Excellent air porosity and high moisture reserve
• “Grower friendly” composition that's easy to handle
• Outstanding “shelf life” after leaving the greenhouse

Recommended Applications:

• Bedding plants
• Potted plants
• Foliage crops
• Hanging baskets
• Nursery crops
• Seedling starting
• Filling planters and window boxes
• Repotting plants
• Ground and raised beds
• Rooting cuttings

Composition:

• Pre-moistened sphagnum peat
• Coarse perlite
• Dolomitic limestone
• Balanced blend of major and minor elements
• Wetting agent

Features And Benefits:

• Nutrient and pH Buffering are optimized in this blend. Nutrients are less likely to leach out the bottom of the container with the high nutrient exchange capabilities. Constant liquid feeding is desirable; however, due to the excellent nutrient buffering, this blend will require less feeding than most. Monitoring soluble salts is always recommended in any medium.
• Pre-Moistened Sphagnum Peat provides easy watering and transplanting. Wetting agents are added to provide rapid remoistening, in case it gets excessively dry.
• Air Porosity and Drainage are balanced in the mix. This allows thorough watering without the problem of a perched water table and waterlogged roots. Moisture is easy to manage in BACCTO Professional Planting Mix. This formulation can be successfully used with most crops.
• Water Holding is optimal in this blend. Select quality sphagnum peat is neither too wet nor too dry after a thorough watering. Wetting agents help to provide ease of watering.
• Low Cost.Due to the location of our facilities and the ability to produce and obtain aggregates and additives in volume, we can supply the high quality planting blend at a cost-effective price. Quality will not be sacrificed. Be sure to compare the cost per container and couple that with the degree of performance.
• Light Weight is an advantage of peat-lite blends when shipping the finished crop. It allows for easy handling of the pots and containers in the greenhouse.
• Easy Handling is one of the best characteristics of this blend. The light weight and fluffy texture make this material easy to handle and desirable to plant into. It is neither sticky nor granular, and will hold its texture throughout the life of the crop.
• Low Run-Off of fertilizers and pesticides is a feature of this mix. It has a high Cation Exchange Capacity (C.E.C.) that holds the nutrients in the root-zone for plant use. Less fertilizer could be needed by the crops, which would also reduce run-off.

Well I guess I will be the test subject then!!! The added Coco/Perlite definitely lightens it up a bit.

Uberknot said:

Well I guess I will be the test subject then!!! The added Coco/Perlite definitely lightens it up a bit.

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it's not horrible, but turns to a brick if you don't add perlite

I tried their peat base and had severe ph problems even after following the directions. It said to add water and let ph stabilize.

I used that brand that was in a all black bag w/ red writing.
worked good. had to amend with some stuff but I always do that.
u should be satisfied. I was with the cost and outcome.
still using it cause I recycle. haha

I used this brand mixed with perlite and compost and manure,it works as good as the promix from my experience.

I just got 6 3.8 cu ft. bales of it for super cheap at the greenhouse my gal works at. The owner hooked her up. Battco is an old school quality brand and its a great soilless mix. Alot like Promix or Sunshine #4. Basically Peat...Perlite...Dolomite Lime...wetting agent and a light (very light) starter shot of fertilizer. A little more "fluffy" than the other brands of soilless peat based mixes ive used in the past. I use coco coir as my substrate medium indoors exclusively but outdoors and in the greenhouse for the season...its organic soils and peat mixes all the way.

Yeah, I have used it. We all had to try different products when I worked at the shop per the request of our boss man. If memory serves me correctly it is a great soil with little done to it so after your first 2 maybe 3 weeks all the fertilizers have pretty much erroded but I did notice that the plants were allowed better aeration and better rizosphere development. You just have to watch your plants on when to start a full nutrient regiment like all soil and soiless mediums.

I have used it. It is a peat lite mix just like pro-mix. I had no problems.

Just a tip I read on the pro mix (pthorticulture) website:

Water with tap the first week to help keep the ph up while the lime activates and starts to buffer the mix.