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Miracle-Gro® Seed Starting Potting Mix
Miracle-Gro® Seed Starting Potting Mix
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Overview
• Effective in germinating a variety of different vegetables, flowers and herb seeds.
• Ideal for rooting leaf, stem and root cuttings.
• Specially formulated to ensure expedited root development.
• Enriched with Miracle-Gro® Plant Food. • Ready to use right out of the bag.
• Ideal for rooting leaf, stem and root cuttings.
• Specially formulated to ensure expedited root development.
• Enriched with Miracle-Gro® Plant Food. • Ready to use right out of the bag.
Benefits of Use
• Miracle-Gro Seed Starting Potting Mix helps with the process of starting cuttings and also increases the strength of your plant’s roots.
• This seed starting mix is specially formulated to help grow fast and strong root development that provides a solid foundation for your plants and aids its healthy growth.
• It vastly improves the drainage that not only serves to improve the health of your plants, but also prevents diseases that develop from overwatering.
• This seed starting mix is enriched with Miracle-Gro® Plant Food to continue to provide your plants with the nutrients required for growth.
• Miracle-Gro Seed Starting Potting Mix continues to feed the plants instantly and improve the overall health of your plant roots and eventually the overall health of your plants.
• This seed starting mix is specially formulated to help grow fast and strong root development that provides a solid foundation for your plants and aids its healthy growth.
• It vastly improves the drainage that not only serves to improve the health of your plants, but also prevents diseases that develop from overwatering.
• This seed starting mix is enriched with Miracle-Gro® Plant Food to continue to provide your plants with the nutrients required for growth.
• Miracle-Gro Seed Starting Potting Mix continues to feed the plants instantly and improve the overall health of your plant roots and eventually the overall health of your plants.
Ingredients
• Formulated to help germinate vegetable, flower and herb seeds develop stronger plant roots.
• With a neutral NPK ratio of 0.03-0.03-0.03,
• Helps feed your plants for up to 3 months as it is blended with Miracle Gro Plant Food.
• With a neutral NPK ratio of 0.03-0.03-0.03,
• Helps feed your plants for up to 3 months as it is blended with Miracle Gro Plant Food.
Rated 1 out of
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Jay2000 from
Too many sticks in the seed starting mix!
Just purchased a bag of Miracle Grow Seed Starting Mix at Lowes. I opened it to pot up some Canna seeds and it is full of sticks. Seed starting mix shouldn’t have sticks or large chunks in it!
Date published: 2021-02-16
Rated 1 out of
5
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Elle from
Miracle-Gro potting mix - fungus gnats!!!
It used Miracle-Gro potting mix last spring for starting my seedling indoors. Never again. I got an infestation of fungus gnats. I'd never even seen one before. They were terrible to get rid of even after the seedlings were transplanted out doors. I had to get rid of all my indoor plants to eliminate them.
Date published: 2021-02-04
Rated 1 out of
5
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Snakebite from
Full of Sticks and Tree Bark
I will never buy this product again. Needed some seed starting mix for onion seed. I trusted Miracle-Gro but that was a huge mistake in this instance. This so called seed starting mix was mostly floor sweepings from a sawmill with just a touch of vermiculite and peat moss thrown in. Don't buy this mix if you want quality. Bad part is that I paid more for the Miracle-Gro and got a terribly inferior product than if I had bought Jiffy or Promix.
Date published: 2021-01-14
Rated 1 out of
5
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Lj Mc from
Poison.
Not organic! Why eat veggies grown in fertilizer!?
Date published: 2020-08-26
Rated 1 out of
5
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Patty from
Unbelievable
FULL of rocks and large pieces of wood. I’m totally done with your products.
Date published: 2020-08-24
Rated 1 out of
5
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Pattie from
I used miracle grow for vegetables for the first
I bought m miracle grow for my vegetable garden this year I planted 5 bushes of different tomatoes, 12pepper plants , 3 CUCUMBER PLANTS ,ZUCCHINI and SUMMER SQUASH 3PEAPODS,3. STRING BEANS ,,,my garden is a disasters. Got 4 TOMATOES OFF OF 5 PLANTS CUCUMBERS GREW. ROUND LIKE A BALL NOT ONE SQUACH OF ZUCCHINITHAT DIDN'T GROW TO MORE THAN THREE INCHES PEAPODS DIED SO DID MY STRAWBERRY PLANTS ONLY THING THAT GREW WAS STRINGBEANS, I USED MIRICAL GROW FOR VEGETABLES ,,,WHAT A WASTE this year ,,,last year didn't use it I had so many VEGETABLES I WAS GIVING IT AWAY CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY TO LOSE
Date published: 2020-08-22
Rated 1 out of
5
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deb from
Would not purchase again
I have been starting my plants for 20 years. This is the first time I used Miracle Gro Seed Starting mix. I have found this medium to be too heavy. It maintains moisture for so long that mold builds up at the top of the soil dispite fans being used. Germination of my seeds took longer to sprout than other mixes.
Date published: 2020-03-16
Rated 1 out of
5
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Trevor from
Unimpressed
The last time I came across soil this hydrophobic was under a 100 year old house. I amended both bags I bought with another brand of starting soil which had a nice dark humus and was 2/3 the price.
Date published: 2020-03-12
Rated 1 out of
5
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Elaine from
It ate my seeds!
I started sixteen seeds in this seed starting potting mix. One survived for about 2 weeks, grew 2 sets of leaves and passed away quietly today. Its roots were gone. This soil finally took its last victim. I was not aware that this soil could do this to seedlings and seeds.
Date published: 2020-03-05
Rated 1 out of
5
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MiracleGnats617 from
Grow plants, own a gnat farm!
I try not to turn my nose to products just because of company size and corporate reputation so I've used miracle grow products for quite a few years. I started over 300 plants with the product this year and within weeks I was completely infested with gnats and their harmful larvae. These starts were in isolation with no other plants, soils etc in the area. I'm now trying to save my financial and time investment fighting this problem. I don't recommend this product unless you want to follow it up with even more expense in finding solutions to the problems it presents. It is so odd that you ask gender on a product review.
Date published: 2019-05-03
Rated 1 out of
5
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Ssummers from
Mold and dead plants
We bought this potting soil for our container garden. We usually use the Miracle Grow moisture control but wanted to give this a try. We started all of our seeds in coir pellets and they were growing strong until we transplanted into our usual containers using this potting mix. Each and every plant has died. Trying to maintain moisture in this soil is impossible and daily watering led to mold on indoor sprouts. We will not be using the rest of the bag, such a disappointment that we now have to restart our garden.
Date published: 2019-04-07
Rated 1 out of
5
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Debbie from
Yellow leaves
I used the Miracle Gro Seed Starting soil for the first time this year. The soil appears to be a lightweight soil that holds water well. My problem I ran into was some of my plants that were started in the Miracle Gro soil have yellow leaves. I have not run into this problem before when starting seeds so I looked up possible causes. As best I can find the seedlings appear to be suffering from to many salts in the potting mix from the fertilizer. I have transplanted the seedlings into new pots with new soil and flushed out the soil to try and save the seedlings. Time will tell if it works.
Date published: 2019-03-07
Rated 1 out of
5
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JonnnyD from
Slugs in mix
We start 300-400 pepper plans and 300-400 tomatoes and when we transplanted them into this product they started dieing and getting eaten off at the soil surface. I started looking at the spill and there was 1,000's of littlle slugs in the soil. We lost a big percentage of our plants because of it. I do not recommend this product.
Date published: 2018-05-22
Rated 1 out of
5
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Gbowman75 from
Water doesn't absorb!
Just like the subject line says... planted seeds just the instructions said. Went to water and the water just ran off the soil. I thought I did something wrong so i dumped the soil out and started over... nope I did everything correctly and the same thing happened so I poured the soil out into my trash can.
Date published: 2017-06-10
Rated 1 out of
5
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chucky99 from
Impossible to wet
The instructions say to Water and Let Drain... did that and the mix below the surface is still bone dry. Put my 5 inch peat pots in deep bowls and filled with water and the next day the mix is still dry!! Two days into it now watering from the bottom and the top and have resorted to stirring the mix with a stick to try and get it to absorb moisture.
It seems to be virtually waterproof, is there a wetting agent available that can be used to get this stuff wet??
Date published: 2016-05-01
Rated 1 out of
5
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Ritmon2006 from
MOLD
The potting mix is growing mold. NOT healthy for seed starting. Very disappointed.
Date published: 2016-01-30
Rated 1 out of
5
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KateDub from
Thanks for destroying my seeds
As another reviewer noted, this potting medium IS WATER REPELLANT. After watering my seeds in this medium, the water just sat on top of the soil, and did not flow down through the soil as you would expect.
See the photos I posted... they show a flat of seed that had sat overnight after being watered the first time. Some of the cells still have water JUST SITTING THERE. The medium in some of the cells appear to have absorbed the water, but when you dig some of it out, you find that only the medium on the surface appears wet, while just under the surface, IT IS BONE DRY.
NOTHING is going to grow in this garbage. Had to chuck it all and start over, but too bad, so sad, some of those seeds I will not be able to replace. This product is not just inferior, it shouldn't even be on the market.
Date published: 2014-03-08
Rated 1 out of
5
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kikifei from
Product won't hold water
I always buy miracle grow products for everything I need for over 20 years. BUT this product needs to be "fixed". I planted 5 trays of peas and tried to water them for 2 weeks. The soil is basically all peat and it won't hold water. The water pools, it drips over the edge. Finally after 2 weeks I dumped everything into a tub mixed it with another miracle grow soil and replanted all my peas. Funny thing is there were all my seeds in the peat moss "dust" they never even got wet after 2 weeks of watering. It's not really funny I lost 2 weeks of growing time and a lot of $ on 6 bags of this seed starting potting soil and now I'll have to doctor it up to use it. Basically I bought $$ peat moss.
Date published: 2013-03-29