Item Number: PSO500
Organic Rice Hulls (50 lb Bag)
A Renewable Resource
These processed rice hulls are a lightweight growing-media amendment used to add air-filled pore space, drainage, and bulk. The 50-pound compressed bag expands to approximately 7.5 cubic feet when decompressed. Rice hulls can substitute for part of the perlite in compatible greenhouse, nursery, container, and propagation mixes, then gradually decompose over time.
Loosen the compressed material, measure by volume, and blend evenly through the selected medium. The appropriate percentage depends on the crop, container, irrigation method, and other components. Wear respiratory protection suited to dusty handling, and adjust watering after testing how the amended mix drains and dries.
Organic Status and Documents
The product record lists the rice hulls as OMRI Listed and WSDA registered for organic production. Confirm the current listing and your certifier’s requirements before use. Read the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) before handling.
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Due to the size of this product, a $5 handling fee will be added to shipping charges.
Shipping Weight: 55.0 lb
Dimensions: 30.0"L x 20.0"W x 11.0"H
Features
Features
- Biodegradable
- Improves Water Holding Capacity
Characteristics
Characteristics
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Use Instructions
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The rice hulls were packaged well enough to survive a hungry bear carrying off the 50# bag. Fortunately I was able to track the rice hull trail and found the bag about 50 meters away. Rice hulls are not proper food for a bear. I am looking forward to using rice hulls instead of perlite!
very happy with the purchase. highly recommended!
Using rice hulls to suppress the weeds in my outdoor container plants. Also using in pathways of new garden area. Cheap for the volume of material. Looks tidier than straw in the 1 gallon pots.
Excellent quality, it is exactly what I wanted.
Richard Byrd
I have not used this product as of yet since I'm waiting for Spring to arrive. It's right around the corner for us here and arrives fairly early in this part of west Texas on the Rio Grande. We've already had sightings of the Texas Bluebonnets and it's only the first week of January. The Bluebonnets plants have been spotted growing so the blooms are only weeks away. Even now when it seems the cold will hang around forever, the bluebonnets let us know that the warmth of Spring is not too far off now for us.
I have ordered composted manure that is mixed with the rice hulls and it's another product that I rely on as well. So, the rice hulls were something I was more than ready to try. Our soils here are almost 100 percent bentonite clay so all of my crops are in containers outside and inside. I make my soils from peat moss, Cherry Stone #2, a good potting soil either purchased here or elsewhere that is not mainly chunks of bark and sticks, the rice hulls, and composted manure. I order my ingredients from here because I can trust the quality. Thank you again.