Jiffy Pellets Can Harm Your Plants If Not Used Correctly
Jiffy Pellets Can Harm Your Plants If Not Used Correctly
Why I don’t use Jiffy pellets!
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Great video, I share your opinion about these pellets. I would add minor correction though: coir is hydrophilic. That’s one of its advantages over peat.
I use the Jiffy pellets to start my pepper seeds with great success. I only grow around 12 pepper plants a season so getting a Jiffy pellet and dome kit for a few dollars is a worthy buy for me. I hydrate using boiling water which sterilizes them. Once cooled I begin sowing my seeds. They are a great, inexpensive and easy to use item for the avg home gardener. I really like them. I do agree with you about the netting though. Common sense told me right away that I should cut it off when up-potting and that is just what I have done from the get go. When not used correctly they can absolutely be harmful. But when used properly they are fast and extremely useful.
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I never had great results with Jiffy Peat pots either for some reason. A good plastic pot just can’t be beat.
I got rid of them .
I soaked them, put the peat in the garden and tossed the mesh.
I wouldn’t buy them again
Thanks for the tips.
I started seeds in jiffy pellets this year last week (mid April) which our last frost is typically early may. I don’t think I’d use them if I started seeds in Feb/March (like I probably should for some but creatures of habit + spring is just a natural reminder.) Jiffy Pellets are somewhat nice to have in a small house without much room to bring plants in from the cold.
I use take out dishes with clear lids as a mini greenhouse to preserve water, I’ll be certain to cut off the plastic though! Thanks for the video!
I use peat pellets to start seeds, stopped having issues with fungus mats, but I remove the netting before planting. I recently purchased some Hellebores that came in those biodegradable pots that are being used. You bet I removed those pots instead of planting like the instructions says. Lots of reviews saying they stunt root growth.
Glad you said all this bcz after using them for the first time this year, I was thinking a similar way. Also, they don’t always expand fully causing problems. Did not know abt PLA, so thx for that Warning.
I think you are making up a confusion, in some images you are showing what is called a paperplug in the industry, not a pellet. Roots do not pass the "paper" but they do pass the mesh.
I’m using Jiffy Pods for a cannabis grow right now. I cut one of the mesh bags when putting into the soil, and left two intact. The one I cut is growing substantially quicker than the other two.
I find that the pots made from compressed cow manure do not break down fast enough in the garden, as well. When I pulled up tomato plants at the end of the season, last year, the plants I had started in cow pots still had the pot mostly, if not completely, intact. That certainly has to discourage root development.
Also, when I first started gardening, I was starting seeds in a small indoor hydroponic "garden." The seeds are dropped into a hole in a conical sponge that sits in fertilized water under a light bar. It works pretty well. But I thought the sponges were biodegradable and so up-potted them for transplanting outside. Well, 3 years later, I still find those sponges whenever I dig around in my garden. Not so biodegradable.
Plastic pots are the way to go.
Many of the 12-14 in containers of pelargoniums or mixed annuals you can purchase at nurseries and big box or grocery stores in may have several plants in them. I’ve found to my dismay, that though they look lovely when newly bought, they don’t thrive like they used to back in the day. I’ve learned to dismantle the container when I get it home in order to “free” the individual plants’ roots from their compression sock-like mesh bondage! Many fairly large plants have roots squeezed in tight socks the size of one’s thumb!
I used them one year , but didn’t like them. That was about 10 years ago.
Thank you for another informative video. I have purchased numerous root stock plants from reputable online nurseries here in Qld, Australia, and I have had a few plants die. When I have suspected something was wrong with them, because they suddenly seemed to stop growing, I discovered harsh plastic like material binding the roots on the young plants, that appear to have retarded the young plant’s growth. It is starting to become expensive, so I am going to let the online nurseries know about this. Thants so much
I did not have much success with them. A waste of money IMO
I actually operate a greenhouse for profit. Roughly 20000 plants per year. Small I know but I will say this. I use peat pellets for my own stuff but because of cost I don’t use a lot. I don’t know about whether they are good or bad for the environment but they do work. For those saying they won’t grow as good or better of a plant that’s just horseshit. I’ve always had great success with them and would use them on all my plants but economically that’s not feasible.
Unreal that Jiffy would sell these silly things. All these ‘compostable’ plastics are the same – need extremely high temperatures to decompose – far higher than 99.99999% of all composts ever reach. It’s greenwashing of the worst kind.
Had no idea the mesh is made from PLA. Thanks for the info
thanks a lot for sharing this, I will make sure I cut it off before I replant … again many thanks
Thank you Mr. P for some very good information.🌷💚🙃
There is a video on how to make your own, uses starch to bind the coire so no mesh bag, think maybe use paper cupcake moulds if needed
I find them to be the most reliable germination method that exists and so do many other people. Everything you say in this video is either incorrect or misunderstood.
Proof of all your claims are required. Also a quick search will show you that PLA isn’t Plastic.
Ive bought multiple bromeliads and the first couple rotted at the base of the plant because they used these without removing before repotting, so theres this wet ball with mesh right below the plant that doesnt dry out as fast as the rest of the soil. Now i repot asap and pull it out.
Don’t use Jiffy pellets. I learned that a few years ago after digging up plants that were started in them. Can you cut the plastic mesh off when transplanting? Yes, but why not just avoid that altogether?
I liked and subbed when you showed the legalese they used to claim the meshes are biodegradable. Unreal.
Yeah I’ve used these many times… I have a love hate relationship with them. They are quick and easy to get going BUT those nets never go away. The first year I used them I didn’t know better and planted right into the garden. 4 years later I’m still finding bits of them in my soil!!! Ick! The next few years I pulled all the nets off and that was just a PITA! This year I’m trying those compressed peat pots but I’m finding that I still need to remove the seedlings from the pots because they don’t break down near fast enough to allow the roots to spread. 🙄… I’ve tried toilet paper rolls and they just get mouldy and gross… I’ve tried paper pots and they are just tedious to make and use because they break down too fast… I’ve decided that next year I’m getting a soil blocker. I’m hoping that that will be the best solution. I don’t want to use plastic trays as I’m trying to avoid plastic in the garden. I do use recycled 4” and 6” nursery pots when I need to pot things up. I always try to recycle those year to year. But yes… 110% will never use the pods again!
i just cut the bottom