Green Supreme Wood Pellets
Hardwood / Softwood Blend – Home Depot’s Most Common Pellet Fuel
Green Supreme Wood Pellets are manufactured by Lignetics Group and sold nationwide through The Home Depot and regional distributors. They’re made from a blend of hardwood and softwood sawdust sourced from sawmills throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Each bag is P.F.I. Certified for premium grade fuel and contains no additives or binders — just pure, compressed wood fiber.
Typical specs: 8,200 – 8,500 BTUs per pound and ash content around 0.4 – 0.7 %. The pellets are screened for low dust and packaged in durable 40-lb bags. They burn hot and steady, making them a popular “go-to” option for many Home Depot customers each heating season.
Availability: Green Supreme is distributed nationwide through Home Depot locations in states like Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Regional plants under the Lignetics umbrella produce different formulations to match local wood species, so BTU and ash numbers may vary slightly by region.
Status note: As of 2025, Green Supreme remains one of the most widely available retail pellet brands in the U.S. via big-box stores and local dealers — but bag date and mill origin still matter for performance, so always check before you buy.
Bottom line: Green Supreme is a dependable, widely available pellet that delivers solid heat and reasonable ash for its price point — a reliable everyday fuel for most pellet stoves sold at Home Depot and beyond.
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Bought a Ton from HD here in CT for $219/ton. A lot of ash and clinkers. I’m basically cleaning the stove every day. Heat output not good either. HD had a “super” premium pellet for like $260/ton which I’m going to try next. QuadraFire Castille Insert.
I bought 2 bags of Stove Chow from H.D. Kingston store to see how they would burn. After two days of testing this is my observations. Using an IR thermometer and the Thelin stove (because that is on continuous burn) I took readings on the glass door and just under the hot air manifold.
The Green Supreme: Day 1: Glass door: 331*F – 340*F
Hot air manifold: 274*F – 278*F
The Stove Chow Day 1: Glass door: 452*F – 460*F
Hot air manifold: 352*F – 357*F
The Green Supreme Day 2: Glass door: 311*F – 325*F
Hot air manifold: 238*F – 249*F
Stove Chow Day 2: Glass door: 436*F – 447*F
Hot air manifold: 333*F – 348*F
I burned the Green Supreme during the day with outside temperatures in the low 50’s, the room temperature staying around 72*F.
I burned the Stove Chow overnight with the outside temperatures in the low 30’s and the room temperature staying around 77*F.
The Stove Chow also had far less fines in the bag (the consistency of granulated garlic). The Green Supreme has a lot of very fine dust along with the sawdust and wood chips.
I’ll use the Stove Chow for cold nights and cold spells and use the Green Supreme (or another brand that doesnt burn so hot) for those days in the 40’s and 50’s. 77*F is too hot so I installed two corner doorway fans to direct the ceiling heat up the stairs. The outside temperature here has been in the mid teens to mid twenties over the weekend and the main floor is about 72* in the morning and about 74* during the day using Stove Chow.
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I am fairly new to burning pellets. This is my third season with a Quadrafire Mt. Vernon insert on a thermostat and have been using Green Supreme from Lowes. The first year I used 3-1/2 ton and last year I burned about 4-1/2 ton.
I run all of my pellets over a 4 ft. long hardware cloth with 1/4″ mesh hooked up to a wet vac blowing from the top and sucking from the bottom. This eliminates almost 100% of the fines, wood chips and smaller pieces.
I had to clean out the ashes about every 3 to four days because of the ash build up. I was happy with the heat output (I dont have anything to compare it to). This year I put an addition on my house and added a Thelin Parlor stove that runs continuously. Because of the small burn chamber I have to clean the Thelin every other day, the glass gets covered with brown ash within hours of start up (this is the stove design) but seems to put out quite a bit of heat.
I guy that I work with, who has been burning pellets quite a bit longer than I have bought 5 ton of Green Supreme from Home Depot last year and took them back because they wouldnt burn for him. I bought mine from Lowes and had no problem. I even had a ton and a half left over that I covered with a tarp for the summer (I keep my pellets outside) and they burned good except for 4 bags I lost to swelling on the bottom row of the open pallet. This year Lowes wants 275 a ton compared to 209 last year, for the Green Supreme. Im thinking about getting Stove Chow (209 a ton at H.D.) because Im nervous about buying Green Supreme form Home Depot, they may be leftovers from last year.
I noticed a difference in the two stoves. The Mt. Vernon insert heats the pellets that are in the hopper so they are real dry by the time they hit the burn pot, whereas the Thelin doesnt seem to move heat into the hopper so moisture may be an issue with it. Tomorrow I’ll pick up a couple bags of the Stove Chow and give them a try.
I have a Bosca pellet stove purchased last year. Love it and it heats the house well. I clean it out at least once a week. Have been burning Maine premium pellets. This year I went to tractor supply and purchased a few bags of Green Supreme that was manufactured in NH/NY. Started my stove yesterday for the first time. (it was completely cleaned at the end of last season)
The moment the first bag began burning, I could smell a strong smoky odor. Almost like a wood stove. Never had this last year. Next thing I knew the glass was covered in black soot. We own a bird, and they are sensitive to smells. Wife came home and made me turn it off it was so strong. Additionally, there was very little heat put out. I let it cool and cleaned it out. As I was pulling out the unburned pellets, I came up with pieces of rubber, same size/diameter as the pellets. Cylindrical in shape. reddish in color. No wonder why it smelled! Wonder how much of that we breathed in before we shut it down. Not sure if something went wrong with machine during manufacturing and a few pieces fell into the bag, or if a lot of people have found this. Please check your bags when you open them! Went to Tractor Supply and purchased the Maine Premium again. They said to bring all my unopened bags of Green Supreme back and they will reimburse. Gladly!
We burned at least 20 bags of Green Supreme in winter 2012. This was the first year with our Quadrafire MT Vernon. We burned through the 2 ton of Green Gold we had purchased and we bought bags as needed to finish out the season, about another ton (50 bags) in all of various brands that the BB stores had available. Of the various brands we burned, this was probably the best of them. The burn was acceptable, not the hottest pellets I have ever burned, but quite acceptable. These produced a bit more ash then the Green gold did, forcing me to do a minor clean of the fire chamber every 2-3 days as opposed to the 3-4 days with the Green Gold. These also crudded up my glass far more quickly and more severely then the Green gold, leaving a thick film that non the less came off with simple glass cleaner and a bit more elbow grease. This is taking into account the relative moisture content of the pellets due to where they have been stored at the BB stores. We burned at least 20 and maybe a few more bags then that of these pellets because of the various brands, these proved to be among the best in heat output and overall cleanliness. These were an ok go to pellet when we ran out of our main supply. I should note that they are not nearly as good as the Green gold proved to be in our Mt Vernon. This year we have 4 tons of fuel, two ton of green gold and two ton of instant heat so we should not need to run to the BB stores for pellets at all. With the instant heat going for $214 a ton, I would not go out of my way to buy Green Supreme, but they did prove to be a suitable tide me over.