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« on: September 29, 2016, 10:56:09 PM »
About two years ago Laaz recommended that I should try using Miracle Grow Garden Soil (MGGS). Therefore, I potted up a New Zealand Lemonade, Saint Michael Paper Rind Orange, Meiwa Kumquat and a Bird of Paradise, all in 3-gallon containers using the medium. Now over this week, two year later, I transplanted all of them into 13 gallon Air Root Pruning containers. All I can say is AMAZING. After two years growing in the 3 gallon containers the MGGS hardy degrade at all still remaining within 1/2 inch of the container's rim. I transplanted the tree by simply lifting each plant up by its trunk with one hand, and knocking the old containers off with the other. As the trees were removed, each root ball remained completely in contact, not one granule of medium fell loose. Stunningly the medium look about as fresh and loose as it did on the day that I potted them up two years ago. All I had to do was place the plants into their new homes. Cutting open a new bag of MGGS and filling in 5 inches of new medium to the bottom of each container, I simply placed the trees in their new spot, and filled in around the root-ball. After soaking each tree in a large vat for several hours, they were replaced back in the greenhouse. To top it all off I pulled 5 old pineapple plants that had already fruited, planning to toss them on the compost pile, but the MGGS medium that they had grown in was in such good shape, I reused it to pot up some newly rooted pineapple slips I had. It is simply amazing how well MGGS still supplied each tree with the good drainage, excellent root zone oxygen after two years, as it did in the beginning. Just simply amazing. - Millet
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