{"id":10326,"date":"2024-03-20T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10326"},"modified":"2024-03-20T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T20:10:04","slug":"i-got-the-promix-problem-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/03\/20\/i-got-the-promix-problem-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"I got the ProMix problem solved"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend had told me that Menards had a potting mix called Sunshine #4 that she bought, and she really liked it. So, when Will and I were in Virginia (Minnesota), we went to look. Yep, they had big bags of it for $15. We bought two and when we got home, I opened one of them and dampened it with hot water to hurry the soaking in process. It was very nice. Fluffy peat with no debris. It also had dolomite to sweeten up the peat plus pearlite and mycorrhizae added. But the germination\/growing thing was still unknown. So, I researched the company that made it. It’s a Canadian company, like ProMix and also made Black Gold potting medium, which I’d used several years ago until it became unavailable. That’s when I switched to ProMix. Feeling much better, I planted a flat of “test” peppers in 6-packs. Whew! I’m going to buy a few more bags to keep on hand \u2026 just in case.<\/p>\n

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I really like Sunshine #4 potting soil! Whew, we weren’t sure what we’d do down the road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’d been worrying about my main crop peppers which still hadn’t popped up after more than a week. That’s unusual for them. But, today, a few are starting to show. I think the slow germination is because at night the house cools down after the wood in the stove has burned up. Even though the daytime temps behind the stove are about 85 degrees, at night it does get cooler. And peppers germinate best at 80-95 degrees. At lower temperatures, they take longer to germinate, up to a month sometimes! I guess I was just getting impatient. But then, I do have a lot of tomatoes to get planted and not any more room to set flats. I’m really glad things are looking up!<\/p>\n

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Even though my flats are about 85 degrees during the day, behind the stove, they do cool at night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I can’t wait for the weather to warm up with REAL spring weather so I can see some of my peonies again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend had told me that Menards had a potting mix called Sunshine #4 that she bought, and she really liked it. So, when Will and I were in Virginia (Minnesota), we went to look. Yep, they had big bags of it for $15. We bought two and when we got home, I opened one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10330,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions\/10330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}