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ETXfigs

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I have never used Pro Mix. I heard that the BX is good for propagating cuttings. I planned on getting some BX when I do another batch of cuttings next spring but when I was a Walmart today they had this yellow bag Pro Mix on sale for $10, so I got some. Is this stuff good for propagating cuttings? Is it good for potted container fig trees? I don't know if I should save it for next spring when I do some more cuttings, or if I should mix it 50/50 with miracle grow potting mix for my potted fig trees. I'm about to up pot some rooted cuttings from 1 gal to 3 gal. Would this stuff be good for those 3 gal pots? It seems really heavy on peat so I was thinking I could mix it with the MG potting mix with some Perlite.

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Less peat moss than BX and HP, but has coir added to it. Mix in some perlite or similar and it’ll be fine.

Pro-Mix HP
  • Sphagnum Peat Moss (65-75%)
  • Perlite
  • Calcitic and dolomitic limestone
  • Wetting Agent
Pro-Mix BX
  • Sphagnum Peat Moss (75-85%)
  • Perlite
  • Calcitic and dolomitic limestone
  • Wetting Agent
Pro-Mix Organic Garden
  • Sphagnum peat moss (60-70% by volume)
  • Perlite
  • Coir
  • Ground Limestone (for pH adjustment)
  • Wetting agent
  • Mycorrhizae
 
Pro-Mix Moisture
  • Sphagnum peat moss (80-90% by volume)
  • Coir
  • Perlite
  • Ground Limestone (for pH adjustment)
  • Wetting agent
  • Mycorrhizae
This is what I used last season when on clearance. I think I cut it ~2:1 with super coarse perlite. @9ah-figlet also used or uses this and posted how she amends it. You can take a look at her detailed breakdown and make adjustments for different peat percentages.
 
At $10 a bag, I would buy them out! It is almost $19 a bag here! I really like this stuff (I've used the red bag or the yellow bag). I amend it a little also, but for a potting mix, this has been awesome stuff for me.
 
RandyK said:
At $10 a bag, I would buy them out! It is almost $19 a bag here! I really like this stuff (I've used the red bag or the yellow bag). I amend it a little also, but for a potting mix, this has been awesome stuff for me.
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It's normally almost $19 here too but on clearance now. I might go back and get some more.
 
Worth considering for pots is how many? How big? How far?

Rooting cuttings has its own requirements but for pots, if I never had to move them I could grow them just fine in good triple mix.... but then in anything bigger than a 5gal pot I'd be breaking my back ever spring and fall when I have to drag them back and forth from storage.... never mind shuffling if you need to do that as well. HP, BX and #4 are super light. Especially when they're a bit dryer.

For rooting cuttings... no reason you can't take the ProMix Organic Garden and add enough perlite to bring it up to 25-35%.

Alternatively, if you have a greenhouse supply place anywhere near you. Sometimes they'll do cash and carry. You don't want to pay for delivery but if you can pick up up it's possible to pick up a yard or two for a fraction of bagged stuff. This sort of thing


thelawsongroup.ca

Premium Potting Mix Bulk - The Lawson Group

LBS/Yard Per Yard 1400 Please call for Pricing! The TLG premium potting mix is a custom in-house blend of all locally sourced natural amendments such as peat loam, aged bark fines, composts, Perlite, and organic fertilizer. Our formulation promotes soil drainage while fertility levels...
thelawsongroup.ca thelawsongroup.ca

www.sumasgromedia.ca

70/30 Coir/Perlite Mix - pH-Stable Soil Blend

It provides the benefits of coco fiber and increases the aeration and drainage of perlite. This pH-stable media offers nutrient retention, ideal for growth.
www.sumasgromedia.ca www.sumasgromedia.ca
 
I got the ProMix all purpose on sale but I wouldn't buy it again, not enough perlite. I much prefer the Sunshine mix #4, best I've used.
 
ETXfigs said:
I have never used Pro Mix. I heard that the BX is good for propagating cuttings. I planned on getting some BX when I do another batch of cuttings next spring but when I was a Walmart today they had this yellow bag Pro Mix on sale for $10, so I got some. Is this stuff good for propagating cuttings? Is it good for potted container fig trees? I don't know if I should save it for next spring when I do some more cuttings, or if I should mix it 50/50 with miracle grow potting mix for my potted fig trees. I'm about to up pot some rooted cuttings from 1 gal to 3 gal. Would this stuff be good for those 3 gal pots? It seems really heavy on peat so I was thinking I could mix it with the MG potting mix with some Perlite.

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Keep an eye on it and try to buy it at Walmart in the fall. I got 11 of the Yellow compressed bales for $5 a piece last fall, when they clearance them out at seasons end. Have seen it clearance priced even cheaper, but I'm never fast enough to get there in time to get any.
 
I only use ProMix for rooting cuttings. No local place to buy it or sunshine mix #4 so I have to order online. Almost $100 a bag is too expensive for everything. I make my own potting mix in bulk for any pots. I can get a truck load of compost for $30, add perlite, vermiculite, lime, iron, oyster shells and peat moss. Works good for me.
 
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bushdoctor82 said:
Pro-Mix Moisture
  • Sphagnum peat moss (80-90% by volume)
  • Coir
  • Perlite
  • Ground Limestone (for pH adjustment)
  • Wetting agent
  • Mycorrhizae
This is what I used last season when on clearance. I think I cut it ~2:1 with super coarse perlite. @9ah-figlet also used or uses this and posted how she amends it. You can take a look at her detailed breakdown and make adjustments for different peat percentages.
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Thanks @bushdoctor82.

ADULT FIGS POTTING MIX
I use this mix using whatever potting mix that is on sale (currently using ProMix Moisture Potting Mix I got for 90% off). Pine fines are hard to find in my area so I mix soil conditioner and mini-pine bark to make up the total amount depending on the size of the "mini" chunks and how much the soil conditioner has decomposed.

These proportions fill my 6 cubic ft wheelbarrow with room to mix.


Pro-Mix
60 qts

Pine Fines
30 qts or 2 3-gallon plus 6 quarts

Safe-T-Sorb
15 qts or 4 3-gallons minus 1 quart
TOTAL
105 qts/ 26.25 gal

Osmocote
5.2 cups

Lime (pelletized lime for lawns)
5.2 cups

Epsom Salt
0.219 cups


For cutings, I use ProMix HP or BX and add extra perlite (additional 30-40%). I would not use Moisture Mix (or the Garden Mix) for cuttings. When soil is advertised for filling beds/growing vegetables, it generally holds too much water for cuttings.
 
TorontoJoe said:
Worth considering for pots is how many? How big? How far?

Rooting cuttings has its own requirements but for pots, if I never had to move them I could grow them just fine in good triple mix.... but then in anything bigger than a 5gal pot I'd be breaking my back ever spring and fall when I have to drag them back and forth from storage.... never mind shuffling if you need to do that as well. HP, BX and #4 are super light. Especially when they're a bit dryer.

For rooting cuttings... no reason you can't take the ProMix Organic Garden and add enough perlite to bring it up to 25-35%.

Alternatively, if you have a greenhouse supply place anywhere near you. Sometimes they'll do cash and carry. You don't want to pay for delivery but if you can pick up up it's possible to pick up a yard or two for a fraction of bagged stuff. This sort of thing


thelawsongroup.ca

Premium Potting Mix Bulk - The Lawson Group

LBS/Yard Per Yard 1400 Please call for Pricing! The TLG premium potting mix is a custom in-house blend of all locally sourced natural amendments such as peat loam, aged bark fines, composts, Perlite, and organic fertilizer. Our formulation promotes soil drainage while fertility levels...
thelawsongroup.ca thelawsongroup.ca

www.sumasgromedia.ca

70/30 Coir/Perlite Mix - pH-Stable Soil Blend

It provides the benefits of coco fiber and increases the aeration and drainage of perlite. This pH-stable media offers nutrient retention, ideal for growth.
www.sumasgromedia.ca www.sumasgromedia.ca
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We actually paid $70 for a split load of 4 Cubic Yards 50% Horticultural pumice, 2 cubic yards , and 50%, they're local mix of coco coir soil mix. Which contained everything I would have added except the heavy duty perlite, also two cubic yards. So four cubic yards in total plus the $70 one time delivery charge. There was perlite I use number three for cuttings, and number four for up potting, but it could have used more. It also didn't have a calcium supplement added in but even with a one time delivery charge of $70 it was $85 a cubic yard. So for $410 I had just about a perfect mix. I got lucky because our local Landscape Company had just about the most perfect Horticultural Pumice I've seen in years. very lite Sooo 27 cu ft in a SQ Yard. X 4= 108 cu ft $410 ÷ 108 cu ft = $3.79 cu ft delivered @TorontoJoe Beat me on the delivery charge LOL but I'm going to let him. If he didn't pay delivery and everything else was the same, then our @TorontoJoe saved 64 cents per cubic foot plus the gas. So we're going to have to call him the winner. But he's a young man I'm 70 years old. I'll let him win the delivery charge sweepstakes. Now I did get lucky because my Horticultural Pumice was a awesome light grade. Literally a perfect substitute for perlite. Plus my coco coir mix contained a pretty good mix of perlite already . Let's say I would add about $108 worth of perlite #4 to dial it in perfect. That makes it $4.79 cubic foot delivered. Then the only thing I would have added would have been calcium. And maybe some homemade biochar that I would charge with a Homebrew of fertilizer for a week. I doubt I'm going to do that though. Just about perfect like it is.
 
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FruitBrute said:
Keep an eye on it and try to buy it at Walmart in the fall. I got 11 of the Yellow compressed bales for $5 a piece last fall, when they clearance them out at seasons end. Have seen it clearance priced even cheaper, but I'm never fast enough to get there in time to get any.
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That is a good point. There are so many pallets of potting mix, soil, mulch in the Walmart parking lot, employees don't even bring the stuff in. I am going to get that stuff for cheap later on.
 
ETXfigs said:
I have never used Pro Mix. I heard that the BX is good for propagating cuttings. I planned on getting some BX when I do another batch of cuttings next spring but when I was a Walmart today they had this yellow bag Pro Mix on sale for $10, so I got some. Is this stuff good for propagating cuttings? Is it good for potted container fig trees? I don't know if I should save it for next spring when I do some more cuttings, or if I should mix it 50/50 with miracle grow potting mix for my potted fig trees. I'm about to up pot some rooted cuttings from 1 gal to 3 gal. Would this stuff be good for those 3 gal pots? It seems really heavy on peat so I was thinking I could mix it with the MG potting mix with some Perlite.

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I use that for fig propagation by adding more perlite. An admin for a fig facebook group highly recommended that.
 
9ah-figlet said:
Thanks @bushdoctor82.

ADULT FIGS POTTING MIX
I use this mix using whatever potting mix that is on sale (currently using ProMix Moisture Potting Mix I got for 90% off). Pine fines are hard to find in my area so I mix soil conditioner and mini-pine bark to make up the total amount depending on the size of the "mini" chunks and how much the soil conditioner has decomposed.

These proportions fill my 6 cubic ft wheelbarrow with room to mix.


Pro-Mix
60 qts

Pine Fines
30 qts or 2 3-gallon plus 6 quarts

Safe-T-Sorb
15 qts or 4 3-gallons minus 1 quart
TOTAL
105 qts/ 26.25 gal

Osmocote
5.2 cups

Lime (pelletized lime for lawns)
5.2 cups

Epsom Salt
0.219 cups


For cutings, I use ProMix HP or BX and add extra perlite (additional 30-40%). I would not use Moisture Mix (or the Garden Mix) for cuttings. When soil is advertised for filling beds/growing vegetables, it generally holds too much water for cuttings.
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It's a tad laborious but I buy the pine bark mulch and use the bulb containers to separate the fines from the chunky mulch.
 
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