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Turtle’s tea

I had an issue with root rot on both my Thai constellation, and my black velvet alocasia. For my black velvet I did a peroxide, water, and a tiny bit of neem oil soak on the roots that were left. I threw out the old soil, down sized the pot. For the Thai I have constantly had issues with this plant, either bugs or now root rot. I have went ahead and took some advice from a previous post. Trimmed up the roots soaked in peroxide and water mix. Dried her out for a few minutes and downsized her pot. Now added little small rocks and pebbles to her soil mix to hopefully open up the soil for more air flow. I really appreciate everyone’s help on my previous post. We will see what my lovely plants have in store

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  1. Yup

    In replace you. An use cococoiar and even chunkier parlight

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  2. Bb

    Hi again, what sort of soil substrate did you previously have for your monstera? These babies are generally pretty happy in a chunky aroid mix. There are tons of different recipes out there that are really just variations of the same thing. The idea is to have some elements that hold onto moisture and nutrients, some elements that help convert fertiliser/nutrients into a form that’s bioavailable to the roots, some elements that provide aeration, and of course stability. I generally use the following basic “recipe”: 2 parts potting soil, 1 part coarse perlite (or regular perlite if I can’t get coarse), 1 part orchid bark, 1 part coco chips. If I only have one type of bark on hand, then I just use 2 parts of that. Hope that helps 🌿🌿🌿

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    • Turtle’s tea

      I used miracle grow potting mix, orchid bark, and perlite previously. Now all I have added to the mix was pea pebbles it was a ratio of one large bag of potting mix, two bags of bark and about half a large bag of perlite. I did make a MASSIVE new batch keeping the same ratio

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  3. Bb

    Just to add that some people do soil-less mixes too but I think the soil makes life a bit easier because all the microbes etc help convert your nutrients into a form that’s available to the roots. When I do mixes without soil, I change up my fertiliser to a synthetic one because that microbial environment at the roots is different. It’s more effort but I’m sure others will have another take too. Part of my decision is also “lazy gal method”, trying to replicate what might happen in nature at a forest floor :)

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    • Turtle’s tea

      I was on the hunt for Leca clay pearls, but no store had them. Would that be considered a soil-less mix?

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    • Bb

      Basically if you didn’t use soil, and instead used something like coconut coir (that’s what I usually use), you could get a pretty good soilless mix that way. But I usually then water with nutrients each time because the new substrate doesn’t contain all the microorganisms that soil has so a good synthetic fertiliser can be used that will make the nutrients bioavailable to the roots. The idea is to have different sized “ingredients” in the mix which I why I suggest coconut coir (the pulverised stuff). You could add LECA or perlite or pumice as well as the bark as well for the larger components. Hopefully that all makes sense

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