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FourOaks · January 30, 2018

Thanks for the clarification. The pictures are worth a thousand words.

Funny you would mention the "Jiffy Seed Starting Mix". Yours looks like its perlite heavy. Couple weeks ago I bought a bag in a pinch. Normally I just make my own, but with snow and ice, everything was frozen solid in the Greenhouse.

Anyways.. there wasnt a lick of perlite in it. All peat and vermiculite. The bag I bought was the Yellow Bag, 12 quarts.

So today, when I mixed up a batch for the 1801's I decided to up my perlite ratio. I decided to go with a 50/50 blend of peat and perlite, with lime of course. This is what Cornell UNIV recommends.

Im still thinking that some experimenting with loser soil mixes might be beneficial. Would be nice to find a blend where you could literally pluck the seedling right out, with out disturbing the other seedlings.

Anything that makes transplanting more efficient is a plus in my book.

January 30, 2018	#44
FourOaks Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: NC Posts: 511	Thanks for the clarification. The pictures are worth a thousand words. Funny you would mention the "Jiffy Seed Starting Mix". Yours looks like its perlite heavy. Couple weeks ago I bought a bag in a pinch. Normally I just make my own, but with snow and ice, everything was frozen solid in the Greenhouse. Anyways.. there wasnt a lick of perlite in it. All peat and vermiculite. The bag I bought was the Yellow Bag, 12 quarts. So today, when I mixed up a batch for the 1801's I decided to up my perlite ratio. I decided to go with a 50/50 blend of peat and perlite, with lime of course. This is what Cornell UNIV recommends. Im still thinking that some experimenting with loser soil mixes might be beneficial. Would be nice to find a blend where you could literally pluck the seedling right out, with out disturbing the other seedlings. Anything that makes transplanting more efficient is a plus in my book.