Moving Young Plants from Miracle Grow to Something Different

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LetsRollABlunt

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I'm not sure the best way to go about this. But I have 3 germinated seeds in small pots with miracle grow soil... one of them is starting to sprout. However, I just read on these boards that miracle grow is AWFUL and can cause serious burns during flower and won't allow me to use the proper nutes without potentially causing burns. Should I try to move these little guys into some soiless mix right now? Or wait until they grow a bit and then transplant?

What is the safest method for doing this to avoid shock?

Also, is the soiless mix and/or alternatives available at home depot or lowes? Suggestions on mediums that can be purchased at either of these stores would be greatly appreciated!
 
Miracle Grow is an excellent medium, regardless of any posts you may have read on these forums. I've grown with it from seedlings to fully mature, flowering plants. I use it on my garden vegetables and in my outdoor plants and love the results I get. In my opinion, I would not move them. In the future, you can start seedlings in a soiless seed starting mix, and then move them to MG after 2 weeks. Don't abandon your soil because of what someone else said... many people on these forums offer up bad advice and twice as many more have zero experience and should be reading here instead of offering opinions on products they have no experience with.
 
MG is hot, BUT since they're in small containters now, once they're large enouh just transplant in a better soil. I personally like Sunshine mix #4. You can find it on almost every grow website. Forget home depot or lowes, they won't have anything to set you up correctly, what line of nutrients are you going to be using? MG comes with sticks and weird unconsistant shit in the mix
 
miracle grow is fine if used correctly, don't add any nutes until the plant needs it. people don't like miracle grow because they burned their plants up. not the soils fault , is the growers fault.
 
the only thing i do not like about miracle grow is that is not sterile and i get the lil gnats flying around. other than that the stuff works great.
 
I disagre, I have used MG for yeeearrs and had no problem with anything, garden or MJ.

Leave them they will be just fine.
 
So, this is actually just a test run with some bag seeds while my dutch passion blueberry + white russian seeds are being shipped. I recently grabbed a 120W tri-band LED with two supplemental T5s for my flowering area, and a few small CFLs for vegging, and the technaflora kit for nutes. The kit comes with B.C. Bloom, B.C. Boost, and B.C. Grow, Sugar Daddy, Root 66, B1 Red, B1 Green organic, and Awsome Blossoms, and Magical... I plan on starting the nutrients off at 1/4 strength, but I'm still worried about burning due to the use of MG.
 
LetsRollABlunt said:
So, this is actually just a test run with some bag seeds while my dutch passion blueberry + white russian seeds are being shipped. I recently grabbed a 120W tri-band LED with two supplemental T5s for my flowering area, and a few small CFLs for vegging, and the technaflora kit for nutes. The kit comes with B.C. Bloom, B.C. Boost, and B.C. Grow, Sugar Daddy, Root 66, B1 Red, B1 Green organic, and Awsome Blossoms, and Magical... I plan on starting the nutrients off at 1/4 strength, but I'm still worried about burning due to the use of MG.
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stick with straight water until the plants show that they need some food.
 
The organic choice does, but it clearly states on the bag it is not intended for potting..... Miracle Grow has the strongest quality assurance program out of all the soil baggers and it's consistency has won it awards. They have been in business for decades and have an excellent grant program, giving back to communities and funding educational grants in the field of horticulture. I wouldn't call the soil hot, it doesn't burn my plants. I use it on tomatoes, melons, beans, cukes, squash, potatoes, weed, etc. In fact, Miracle-Gro beat out fox Farms soil in a couple of tests posted right here on RIU. What do you use it on?

303 said:
MG is hot, BUT since they're in small containters now, once they're large enouh just transplant in a better soil. I personally like Sunshine mix #4. You can find it on almost every grow website. Forget home depot or lowes, they won't have anything to set you up correctly, what line of nutrients are you going to be using? MG comes with sticks and weird unconsistant shit in the mix
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Serapis said:
The organic choice does, but it clearly states on the bag it is not intended for potting..... Miracle Grow has the strongest quality assurance program out of all the soil baggers and it's consistency has won it awards. They have been in business for decades and have an excellent grant program, giving back to communities and funding educational grants in the field of horticulture. I wouldn't call the soil hot, it doesn't burn my plants. I use it on tomatoes, melons, beans, cukes, squash, potatoes, weed, etc. In fact, Miracle-Gro beat out fox Farms soil in a couple of tests posted right here on RIU. What do you use it on?
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I used to be a soil grower for years, in fact my mom's are all in soil. I used to use roots organic soil or sunshine mix. This year we switched to recirculating hydro. I'll never go back to dirt.. In your defense, yes for outdoor in the ground soil MG would be good for just watering it daily with the hose plants and veggie garden. But for indoor MMJ growing with the addition to pushing them with nutrients, MG would be a poor choice in my opinion. No disrespect Serapis just my exp and my valid opinion. :peace:
 
I just picked up another bag of MG soil 8 buck for 2 cu ft and a bag of perlite 3 bucks. How does sunshine compare to 11 bucks?
 
Yeah I'll stick to the good shit..
One Bale $37.95 (7 cubic ft)
Sunshine Mix]

Sunshine Mix is a top quality Canadian sphagnum peat moss with dolomitic lime to adjust to pH 5.0 - 7.0 and to provide calcium and magnesium. Gypsum is added as a source of sulphur and calcium. In addition, Sunshine #1 has a highly soluble nutrient charge equivalent to about one liquid feeding with a complete fertilizer, plus trace elements. It is available in 3.8 cubic foot compressed bales (about 7 cubic feet loose) and 3.0 cubic foot loose bags. One of the best potting mixes there is. Hey I can stick my head up a bulls ass but id rather takes the butchers word for it.
 
303 said:
Yeah I'll stick to the good shit..
One Bale $37.95 (7 cubic ft)
Sunshine Mix]

Sunshine Mix is a top quality Canadian sphagnum peat moss with dolomitic lime to adjust to pH 5.0 - 7.0 and to provide calcium and magnesium. Gypsum is added as a source of sulphur and calcium. In addition, Sunshine #1 has a highly soluble nutrient charge equivalent to about one liquid feeding with a complete fertilizer, plus trace elements. It is available in 3.8 cubic foot compressed bales (about 7 cubic feet loose) and 3.0 cubic foot loose bags. One of the best potting mixes there is.
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price is pretty much the same 5.42 per cu ft...thats not bad. is it sterile?
 
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