Quality plants begin with healthy growing!

Ball Professional Growing Mixes

Our focus on quality continues with our line of specialty soilless growing mixes formulated to meet the demands of our valued grower customers.

Ball's most recent advancement in growing soil is the added value of including a starter nutrient charge in our Ball Professional Growing Mix. This specially-formulated mix contains planet-friendly fertilizer Daniels Professional Plant Food. (Learn more about Daniels below...) There is also a retail soil mix available through the Simply Beautiful program.  

Plant Growth Activator Plus can be added to all Ball Professional Growing Mixes upon request. (Learn more about PGA PLUS below...)   

Daniels Plant Food

This liquid-based, patented fertilizer is developed from a seed extract that enhances root development and provides extended nutrition for optimum garden performance. And it's easy to use! One formulation grows a multitude of crop varieties, blends instantly with water and doesn't require mixing. Just pull directly from the Daniels container.

Benefits of using Daniels:

• Promotes environmentally-friendly growing
• Delivers stellar garden performance 
• Designed to meet the feeding requirements of all plants - even specialty crops
• Produces a stronger stem base with a more compact fuller plant and more blooms per area
• Generates high-quality flowers with bolder colors
• Provides lower EC than traditional synthetic fertilizers at the same feed rate
• Allows for shorter crop cycles
• Feeds both beneficial microbes and the plant with a high source of biodegradable carbon  

Daniels Plant Food offers a complete line of products for the professional greenhouse and nursery market:

• Daniels 10-4-3 Professional Plant Food
• Daniels 10-4-4 Ornamental Landscape
• Pinnacle 3-1-1 Professional Plant Food  
• Daniels Retail Line

Get more information about Daniels Professional Plant Food from the Daniels web site or contact your Ball Sales Representative. 

Plant Growth Activator Plus

The establishment of beneficial microbial populations is key to creating the ideal soil environment for healthy plant growth. Plant Growth Activator Plus (PGA PLUS) is a unique, all-natural fertilizer formulated to promote the establishment and enhance the growth of all plantings and transplants.

This microbial product contains 52 strains of...

• Beneficial soil microorganisms - bacillus, pseudomonas, streptomycetes, trichoderma, humic acid, kelp 
• Essential amino acids
• Vitamins
• Biotin
• Folic acid
• Natural sugars

Benefits of PGA PLUS:

• Minimizes nutrient leaching
• Aids in nutrient cycling and absorption
• Reduces fertilizer and pesticide inputs up to 25%
• Allows for better root development and improved root architecture
• Increases resistance to environmental extremes, like heat, cold and drought
• Lessens transplant shock
• Delivers a shorter crop cycle
• Provides overall healthier plants

For more information and up-to-date application rates, visit the Organica web site.