Black Gold Seedling Mix 8qt

I love this stuff. I used to use Coast of Maine seed starting mix but it changed this year and has become chunky and horribly hydrophobic. Now I use Black Gold and it takes bottom watering 5-10 min (depending on the size of cells you’re using) to saturate vs the hours I was stuck waiting around for CoM to rehydrate. A word of advice: set a timer to what it takes to saturate 50% of your cell/container/etc or it will become too saturated. In about a hour it will have soaked through the whole cell. For me that’s 4-5min. The wetting agent in here works ridiculously well. I have found that sometimes I need to add more perlite because the wetting agent works so well + holds on to moisture a little too much. My peppers and tomatoes have struggled in it, so I started adding perlite for them. Once you get the hang of it, works absolutely wonderful. Great growth. Quality mix. Love the wetting agent (though it takes some time to get used to). Watch the price on Amazon sometimes it drops really low and I can scoop up a bunch of bags!

This is nice and black seeding mix the way I personally like it. Must be filtered as clean as can be. I did add 3 small handfuls of black roots vermiculite to the bag. I want good water retention in my seeding mix but this looks good the way it is. For my growing dirt I add plantonix perlite for good drainage but thats just me. I spread this out in my dirt tub and misted it 6.2 ph out in the sun hopefully to get rid of any gnats if any. Did not see any hatch at all but being organic it is a fact of life so taking no chance's for inside.

It seems to be a good seed starter mix; however, only time will tell if the mix is nourishing.

This is very Fluffy soil

Nice soft blend that works well with seeds My seeds sprouted quickly and have progressed nicely.

great stuff to use to start your seeds. just the right mix to give you the best results.

I’m a beginner to growing and after research I decided on this starter soil to sow my hot pepper and basil seeds. I have a greenhouse type cell tray with led lights and a heating mat. This soil was easy to wet and has a perfect consistency to retain moisture, yet stay gentle enough for young seeds to sprout. With the combination of my cell setup and this soil, my basil seeds have sprouted after TWO days, when the packets say to expect 7-14. I’m literally watching them grow before my eyes, noticing new sprouts over the course of mere hours. Peppers have a longer germination time than basil so I definitely wouldn’t expect to see them yet, but these are obviously ideal conditions for seeds and I certainly give this soil due credit. I won’t buy anything else here on out for starting my seeds!

I really like this for seedlings and I've had a high success rate. I kept it in the garage over-winter and used it next spring and the quality still seems good with low failure rate. I especially like how it already comes with pearlite/vermiculite pellets.