miracle grow

Is miracle grow good for growing????

I only use Miracle grow potting soil to mix with the soil outdoors before planting. Miracle grow will work but its not recomended indoors. It is made up with lots of synthetic ingredients. Fox Farms and Supernatural products work well for me. The powdered products last a long time.

miracle grow will work but its not so great you wind up with nute lockout ive never had that problem with fox farm

No, buy some promix or a mix with no nutes...

I use Miracle Grow Organic potting mix for my grows and never had a problem. I mix in about 30% perlite for better drainage.
Now the MG Moisture Control is a different story. You have to be careful with that one because it has tiny fertilizer pellets (I call 'em nute bombs) pre-mixed in the soil. One can easily burn plants with supplemental nutes if not careful.

I'm currently using MG Moisture Control and I've got to tell ya, I don't like it. I've found that its ability to hold on to extra water can cause an over watering problem in a big way... Even when you're not watering. I'm locked it to it for this grow... But, won't use it again. What I have left will be used for houseplants. This is my first grow and it's been filled with learning experiences (mistakes) and that MG-MC is one of them. Don't fall for what it says on the bag, pot ain't a bowl of petunias!

I've been using MG moisture control for my 3 girls and they love it. I haven't had a problem with it yet.

I didn't feed any nutes until week 3, and even then, i started with 1/4 dose, and worked my way up. Here are my baby girls at day 33 of flowering:

I used Miracle Gro Organic Garden Soil, my mix was 2 parts MG+1 part perlite+1 part peatmoss, you tell me how they look. 18th day flowering.
I say as long as it's organic it would be cool, but I just like to use organic soil so you know there isn't any chemicals in there, just pure goodness.

MG soil is okay to use as long as you dont try to add MG nutes to it. it can cause serious burn. if your bound to home depot n lowes for equipment, then go to homedepot and get to the gardening section. Its not that big but they have regular soil, vermiculite, worm castings, and perlite there, and you can use all of that for a pretty decent soil mix. Add to that some nutes that you can order online, and youll be set man. Its worth it. Trust me.

i have used it in the past will good results. the general purpose shit is good for veg but dont use it alot because of its high ratios

K1Ng5p4d3 said:

MG soil is okay to use as long as you dont try to add MG nutes to it. it can cause serious burn. if your bound to home depot n lowes for equipment, then go to homedepot and get to the gardening section. Its not that big but they have regular soil, vermiculite, worm castings, and perlite there, and you can use all of that for a pretty decent soil mix. Add to that some nutes that you can order online, and youll be set man. Its worth it. Trust me.

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I got all of my stuff at the Depot, and it was on sale too. Made my own mix and my ladies are looking sexy! I think it all cost me about 60 bucks or so.

I love the Moisture Control. There's a learning curve, but once ya get it, it's great. In fact, I'm doing a 3 stage MGMS multi-plant grow right now. I cloned them in it. I'm TP'ing into appropriately larger planters every 2 weeks until week 4/5, then to flower.
NEVER need to feed them at all, honestly, but I do toss a little bloom in at 12/12, then molasses on out.
I also tend to add epsom salts 1/4 tsp/gal often.

MrFishy said:

I love the Moisture Control. There's a learning curve, but once ya get it, it's great. In fact, I'm doing a 3 stage MGMS multi-plant grow right now. I cloned them in it. I'm TP'ing into appropriately larger planters every 2 weeks until week 4/5, then to flower.
NEVER need to feed them at all, honestly, but I do toss a little bloom in at 12/12, then molasses on out.
I also tend to add epsom salts 1/4 tsp/gal often.

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This is my first grow and though I've done plenty of research, I feel that what I've gotten so far is more blind luck than anything else.

Can you please give me some advise on watering? My plants are about nine inches tall and I'm using 8 inch pots. I let them dry almost all the way out before watering from the top of the pot with 200ml of water. Takes about 2.5 to 3 days to get to the point of watering again. There's only a little period of time where I don't get that over or under watered droop. Not using any nutes at this point. Just bottled water that's been RO filtered. Can you give me a ball park as to what's too much or to little?

MGSC soil sucks up a lot of water. It needs to be thoroughly watered to allow the fert polymers to release the planned amount of nutrients, etc.
It also stays wet a long time.
Water from the top slowly until it comes out the bottom of the planter in a few places, then after a few minutes, I use something to allow it to drain on an angle and drain thoroughly. I use a turkey baster to water my smaller planters with. It helps me keep the watering even. If you don't have a water/moisture meter, they're not expensive and help.

So are you saying they droop from too much, then look good, then droop again real fast? Maybe it's root-bound?
A couple more things . . . this soil can be too much for some seedlings (too hot) and if you don't let it dry pretty much, you may cause it to get too much food. I bought some once that had gotten wet somehow and been stored wet for months . . . all the polymers had dissolved and that shit was HOT! Almost ruined everything. Don't buy any that's been wet.

I'm using the MG moisture control as well and have had problems with the described "nute bombs" but thats the only problem. I added some sand to get the drainage right and things have gone by smooth! in about two weeks I'm going to start using nutes and we'll see from there.

ive had mg in my shed used it for 1 grow then got better

Yeah thats all i have now is moisture control, And bio bloom and bio grow.....On the bag it say not to add nutes till its been 3 months.....should i follow this?

ive never used it, my dad has on his vegatable garden in the past. Some people have used it with great results im sure. But to me it just seems like Miracle Grow is the Nike brand of Nutrients and i think it shouldnt be used. It just seems like mass produced, non organic crap.

I've used the potting soil and had very good results. I've had better results using Fox Farm soil but if MG was all I could get that would be fine. Of course knowing what I know now I'd just get some soiless mix instead.