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soil Repotting plants to add Perlite to miracle gro soil , should I even bother ??

I have four plants that I just potted , a Carolina reaper 2 weeks ago , a Douglah and chocolate scorpion , also a plant my son got awhile ago not sure if it's even a pepper plant ?? Anyway I would like to add perlite to the miracle gro potting mix because it had so little , how do I go about removing the plants without hurting its roots ? Should I even bother ??

I'm only considering doing it because I keep reading that the roots might rot or die because miracle gro soil retains a lot of water . Also I just realized the reaper I loosened up the roots when I planted it from its 3" pot , the other 2 I didn't was afraid of hurting them , smh any way here are the pics of them

Reaper
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Choco scorpion
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Douglah
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Sons mystery plant
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What do you guys think ?? Should I just let them be or should I go ahead and add the perlite ??
Any advice would be appreciated , Carlos , Bx , Ny
 
a unanimous vote lol , ill just let them be , Thanks !!
 
Just went and potted up the jays peach going to do the others I have tomorrow . Any of you foliar feeding ?
If so how you going about it ? ive been hitting them with a cal/mag pro foliar spray at 1/4 strength every other night and they seem to be liking it .
Waiting for ferts to weaken in the miracle gro soil before I start using the fish and seaweed fert .
Can I mix the fish fert with the cal-mag and foliar spray together at one time ?
or shoud I do one week one and next week the other ?
or are plants better off just getting the fish fert when I water them ?
 
Dani8538 said:
Leave 'em alone
 
Proud Marine Dad said:
 
OZZZ said:
Ditto... they look fine.
 
another question I got , bottle for Neptune harvest says fish and seaweed fert says not to store diluted fert . Im foliar spraying and a liter bottle right now can last me 2-3 days is that ok or shoud I start a fresh bottle every time ? hope not that would be expensive in the long run . Only thing ive read is that it starts to smell extra fishy . I can deal with that , but don't want to harm the plants
 
Why not make a half liter so it can be used at one time? Just use half the amount of product that you use to make a diluted liter.
 
ms1476 said:
Why not make a half liter so it can be used at one time? Just use half the amount of product that you use to make a diluted liter.
Lmao , why didn't I think of that lol ....
 
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