Buying Vermiculite...

[Surfrat]

So Home Depot, WalMart, and KMart do not carry vermiculite in my area. My question is has anyone bought it online, and if so where, or is there anywhere else you can recommend for trying to purchase it locally.

Edit: I also notice there are different grades of vermiculite. Which grade is the best to use for incubation medium.

Here is a link I found to a site that sells two different kinds of vermiculite. Course grade and fine grade.

http://homeharvest.com/soilamendmentsperlitevermiculite.htm

 

[laurie]

So Home Depot, WalMart, and KMart do not carry vermiculite in my area. My question is has anyone bought it online, and if so where, or is there anywhere else you can recommend for trying to purchase it locally.

Edit: I also notice there are different grades of vermiculite. Which grade is the best to use for incubation medium.

Here is a link I found to a site that sells two different kinds of vermiculite. Course grade and fine grade.

http://homeharvest.com/soilamendmentsperlitevermiculite.htm

I bought a monster bag from a nursery. They are the only place I could get it except LLL Reptile. I use the coarse but I think both work fine.

 

[Surfrat]

Cool, I picked up a bunch of it from the site I linked. Much cheaper then LLL.

 

[kinyonga]

All I can tell you is that I use the coarse grade. The fine grade seems to dry out more unevenly and I had problems with it everytime...so I went back to the coarse grade. I have no problems with it. (Keep in mind that I live in Canada and where you live might cause differences.)

 

[Surfrat]

All I can tell you is that I use the coarse grade. The fine grade seems to dry out more unevenly and I had problems with it everytime...so I went back to the coarse grade. I have no problems with it. (Keep in mind that I live in Canada and where you live might cause differences.)

Ty Kinyonga, I went with course grade!

 

[AJA]

Be careful you don't get the "Miracle Grow" type. I couldn't find just plain old vermiculite or perilite at those places (Home Depot / Lowes) I went with pond sand instead and like it a lot.