Do y’all just do soil or do you mix anything with your soil for house plants?
Do y’all just do soil or do you mix anything with your soil for house plants?
I always mix my own. Tropicals: 50% regular potting mix 50% - equal parts perlite/orchid bark/lava rock Succulents: 50% cactus/succulent potting soil 50% perlite
4件のいいねI almost never use “all purpose potting soil”. It’s almost always too dense and water logging. As others mentioned above ^^ mix with something to add more drainage such as sand, perilite, mulch, chunky bark, a rock layer, etc. good luck!
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I make my own. It’s super easy and cheap too. I use Miracle Gro indoor potting mix (gray bag), perlite, and orchid bark for all of my plants except succulents/cacti. I mix 50% soul, 25% perlite, and 25% bark. I do the same ratios for succulents/cacti but I use succulent/cacti soil instead of regular soil.
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I rarely (if ever) use any type of soil for indoor plants. My plants all live in a mix of coco chips, coco coir, perlite, pine bark, charcoal and pumice. I grow primarily aroids.
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Don’t use perlite for succulents. It’s a light material that, overtime, rises to the surface from watering. Eventually leaving your soil tight and not porous. Instead use expanded shale, decomposed granite, sand and then of course, soil.
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