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Pro-Mix HP vs Sunshine Sphagnum Peat Moss

Can anyone give some comments between Pro-Mix HP vs Sunshine Sphagnum for fig cuttings or plant in container for idea ?
Anyone use Sunshine Sphagnum Peat moss before ? Is this good or not ?Sunshine Peat Moss.jpg 


The sunshine is just regular SPM I think.  Pro-mix has antifungal and vermiculate/perlite which increases water retention. 

  • ricky
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Pro-mix is better choice for both application, but it is too inexpensive for bigger container like 55 gallon = 200 lites.

For fig cuttings, I would go for  "Perlite" .
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/2-litre-pop-bottle-perlite-simple-rooting-7753159?highlight=perite&pid=1289531576


Sunshine mix with MYC. Antifungal and promotes root growth. Found and recommended at Away.
Mixing with potting soil 70/30, plants and cuttings, topped 3" mix

Trialing right now, started a week ago. Will let you know

For what it's worth, my experience with ProMix vs. Sunshine for rooting Figs is I used ProMix until they started adding a fungicide to the mix at which time my rooting success went way down.  Mycorrhiza is a fungus that is necessary to initiate rooting and my opinion is the ProMix fungicide may inhibit Mycorrhiza.  I switched to Sunshine #1 which is a peat & perlite mix and my Fig rooting success went back up to the level I was used to with the old version of pre-fungicide ProMix.  Depending on your particular rooting technique, you may experience different results than I have had with these two mixes.

Happy Growing,   kiwibob, Seattle

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  • ricky
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Mike:

Thanks for info product of MYC, It looks amazing.

You can get pro-mix HP just with mycorrhizae and without the biofungicide.  The biofungicide is a group of bacteria that eat the types of fungi that cause plant diseases.  Stamets has them in his mixes as well. 

I haven't tried Sunshine #4, but #1 was terrible and full of fungus gnats.  I assume you folks haven't seen that with #4?

Well, I have kept quiet on this because I haven't tried Sunshine #4.  However, ProMix has never steered me wrong and I've rarely had issue with roots forming.  I have about 50 cuttings in ProMix right now and they all have roots and leaves.  I probably had 3-4 dry up on me, but when I planted them they had leaves and no roots, and I don't use humidity bins.  I now don't plant without roots even if the leaves are growing in the moss.

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Originally Posted by pacifica
Can anyone give some comments between Pro-Mix HP vs Sunshine Sphagnum for fig cuttings or plant in container for idea ?
Anyone use Sunshine Sphagnum Peat moss before ? Is this good or not ?Sunshine Peat Moss.jpg 
~i use this sphagnum peat in rooting bins have great sucess,i use potting soil when i pot them up from rooting bins ,this works great for me.~~


   I've noticed no slowing in root formation when up-potting using the bales of HP with just Mycorrhizae.


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Originally Posted by rcantor
I haven't tried Sunshine #4, but #1 was terrible and full of fungus gnats.  I assume you folks haven't seen that with #4?


No fungus gnats - but I did get a shipment of Sunshine #4 Natural & Organic w/ Myc that smelled like a compost pile gone wrong. I spoke to the company at length - they assured me that i could just air it out and use it. True to their word - never saw any issues with it.

Edit: I like Sunshine #4 because it's available in an Organic Certified version. ProMix Organic is unavailable in the state of California. 

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