FoxFarm Ocean Forest Potting Soil, 1.5cu ft - Light, Aerated Texture, Designed for All Container Plants

Great stuff. Does its job.

I’ve been using this soil for a while now, and I’m really impressed with the quality. The texture is perfect, it drains well, and my plants started growing healthier and greener within a short time. It’s rich, fresh, and easy to work with. Definitely one of the best soils I’ve tried, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves gardening.

Great soil

If you're growing anything that fruits - GET THIS! Seriously, this stuff is magical or something. I'm an entry-level gardener at best, but this soil makes me look like a pro! The plants love the nutrition they get from this soil! It's super easy to use, no mixing, no fussing, just add your plant. Water retention is great! So, if you have something more prone to root rot, add some extra perlite/larger media. My plants exploded in size when they started to uptake the nutrient in this soil. They grew twice their original size in a matter of 2 weeks! I added about 1 cubic foot of this soil under my roses before I planted them outside. This soil retains the water they need down deep to promote very healthy roses! I will definitelt buy some more when the need arises! Top quality soil!

I chose Fox Farm soil (anew choice), for repotting my Boston Fern and for a leggy Monstera houseplant. After reading the reviews, Fox Farm soil seemed to be a good choice for houseplants to grow in and for taking new starts from a plant, aka cuttings. Both my Fern and Monstera plants prefer slightly acidic soil and so I tested the new soil’s PH and it’s at 7.0. The PH level is another detail needed to consider for my new little plant fledglings (cuttings from the Monstera). Even so I still repotted Fern and will soon be repotting the Monstera plant and it’s cuttings that need a 5.5 - 6.5 PH. The Fern needs a 6.5 - 6.8 PH, so it was close enough to be repotted in the new soil. The Fern’s fronds, (leaves), were always dropping right in the soil area. Pine trees do that too if the soil isn’t acidic enough they will drop pine needle debris to cover the ground, around the base, to lower the PH where they are growing. So this time, my houseplants will have a good restart using an upgraded quality soil (Fox Farm) paired with more attention to their PH balance. I will still use the soil for my Monstera plant and cuttings after amending with aluminum sulfate to change the PH down to 5.5 - 6.5. The soil is all good and I enjoy the process in taking care of houseplants and choosing a quality houseplant soil. When repotting Fern, I noticed the soil was fluffy and had its own perlite and organic material in it. I added more perlite and tea from tea bags to the dirt. There were no signs of pest. It watered well and drained well. I’m looking forward to seeing new fronds this spring from our Fern houseplant.

Was hotter than I realized other than that is good stuff

When my grandpa died about 20 years ago, my dad's company sent us this ivy vine thing in a pot as a consolation gift. My mom has been taking care of it and it has literally somehow survived for 20 years without a single speck of fertilizer or anything besides tap water every day. How? I have no idea. Magic, maybe. But my mom recently approached me and asked me to find some quality potting mix to top off the container. I was thinking: sure, how bad could it be? I look in the pot, and there is literally nothing but a mass of roots in there and maybe two inches of soil. The roots were literally climbing out of the pot. Listen. I was so stressed out over adding potting mix to a pot. What if I killed the plant?? What if it went into shock or there were bug eggs or something in the mix? My mom sees it as a reminder of her father and if I somehow made it shrivel up when 20 years of hard tap water couldn't kill it, it would actually haunt me for life. This potting mix was the highest rated on nearly every site I consulted, and when it was delivered, I carefully added maybe two inches of dirt to top it off. Just to see if it would make the plant sickly or something. The next time I saw it, the plant was literally a completely different color. Rather than light yellow streaked leaves, the entire thing was green, lush, and it had new growth poking out of the pot and leaf nubs sprouting out of new portions of the vine. It even started growing on a nearby chair!! What is in this stuff?! 5,000 stars for not killing an incredibly sentimental plant and somehow completely reviving it within a week. And no worries, I have since added a normal amount of soil to the pot and got a bottle of alaskan fish fertilizer that my mom can dilute and use to fertilize it once a month or so. Our new problem is that it's currently taking over a corner of my mom's dining room. P.S. I'm thinking Amazon should probably remove "Flavor" as a rating category for this product lol. But I did rate it five stars for being delicious! (for plants.)

First off have some different strains growing. I have noticed that this soil verses other soil your plants thrive and flourish. Verses other soils not as good. My plants were dying or just not really growing big. I switched them to this soil and the roots thickened and they started growing fast. I love the quality of this soil. It’s sucks the cost but it’s because the ingredients on it. If you made your own blend with similar ingredients you would spend a lot this is high quality I won’t use anything else now. I also am in I’ve with the cal-mal, and different plant foods by this company. It’s worth it and you will notice the difference. Someone else told me to get it I saw cost and was like hard ummmm no. But after using it there is no way I would get anything else. Okay I am done writing the book here.