"A soil-less mix fortified with Turface, sand, and granite grit is a good general-purpose mix for many plants," https://nargs.org/reference/troughs#sthash.BOHYRv7e.id21AnuC.dpuf
I've got lots of Turfaceand granite grit, but when I asked for soil-less mix at the nursery, everybody looked blank as if they had never heard of such a thing and said, "I don't think we've ever carried that." We were standing in front of a display of various little (read: expensive) bags of "potting mix." But isn't potting mix (as opposed to potting soil) by definition a soil-less product?
When I lived in another state (it was also in another century) I would buy bulk quantities of a soil-less product called Pro-Mix BX, but I haven't seen it lately. The only bulk mixes my local nursery carries are Berger BM1 and Sungro Professional Growing Mix, and the employees didn't know if they were soil-less.
Can either of these products serve as the base of my planting medium?
Janet
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Which Sungro mixes have you
Which Sungro mixes have you used?
It has been several years
It has been several years since I have utilized professional mixes in my small personal nursery but I recall having good results with SunGro general purpose mixes as well as Fafard mixes (I see now they are sold by the same company). My attraction to the SunGro mix I used was the minimal use of peat, so depending on your purposes it seems any of the professional mixes would do. Locally we have a greenhouse supply company that allowed individuals to buy direct rather than pay exorbant inflated prices at retail outlets.
I have used Sungro mixes (not the one you mention) with good results. Sungro uses less peat and more bark than some other mixes substituting coir for the peat.