Help need on best type of soil to use.....

Diablo.dash

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My seedlings are 2 inches tall so im gonna re-pot them, but whats the best soil to use? Multi-purpose compost with added john innes or miracle grow with added food?

These seem to be the best in my local uk store. :?
 
Skip the MG unless you feel like dealing with fungus gnats. They are a common problem with that soil, as is excessive water retention. It works well if you add lots of perlite(20% or so), but you'll most likely still have the gnats.(larvae are already present in the soil, and spring to life soon after planting) Not worth the hassle, IMO.
 
I use MG organics... My opinion is MG is good outdoors... your taking care of simple pests like those knats anyways. Its a reasonably priced decent quality. I suggest a better soil for indoors(next grow im switching from MG in my indoor grow, I have had problems indoors, outdoors wonderful. I use MG nutes as a supplement to my Organic growing. I dont mean organic CHEMICAL nutes, I mean multch, casting, nectures, ect.
If you use MG nutes (reasonably priced) make sureyou add 1 tbsp of espon salt to a gallon of water, once a week. That keeps the salts from causing a nute lockout. That was the key to my failures with the MG. Now that im established I might find it worth spending more on the soils.
HOWEVER! I planted in just MULTCHED Garden scrap pile/oak burn pile turned over with my tiller. 6 inches of dark rich soil, cost me maybe 50cents in fuel to till it all in. No added soil what so ever. I have 4' X 6' beautiful powdered plants. Many might get upset at this comment but "IN MY OPINION, chemical organic nutes are still chemical and not as organic as the way I do it. I have a full scale cegetable garden too, this makes mulch and burnoff very cheap/easy/ and effective."
 
Hello,

Fox Farm Ocean Forest.
Subcool Soil Mix
Pro mix BX,HP

Cant go wrong with those.
 
I have heard good reviews about foxfarm and happyfrog but im in the uk and there's not one retailer over here. thanks for all your input though.
 
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