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title: "Match up Monday! Team make your own soil mix or team buy it premade?!"
description: "Match up Monday! Team make your own soil mix or team buy it premade?!"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/FD11fMJtm2R4TjqBhHMThw"
community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿"
published: "2026-06-01T14:53:16.328895Z"
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# Match up Monday! Team make your own soil mix or team buy it premade?!

_Posted by Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿 on 2026-06-01_

Match up Monday! Team make your own soil mix or team buy it premade?!

## 11 comments

### Roxanna commented on 2026-06-01

I make my own. It’s more cost effective and I can make large batches of it 🙂

### Christina commented on 2026-06-01

Mix my own

### Lulu commented on 2026-06-01

I used to buy straight up, but I realized buying my own stuff gets me more outcomes! Like perlite, charcoal, and some sort of moss can make a lot of plants happy. Then, of course, if you go exotic like tropical plants or carnivorous, you can still use the perlite, then buy whatever else you need :) here are one of my plants I used once using my own mix-

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### Mikel’s Plant Posse commented on 2026-06-01

I have a quick draining cactus and succulent mix that I bought on amazon that I like! I add some perlite to it for some of my plant posse…

### Dot2462 commented on 2026-06-01

Make my own. My plants are so happy when repotted in my special mix.

### PlantsInHarlem commented on 2026-06-01

Make my own. Although I have found a great aroid mix that I may continue to use, I find making my own is more cost-effective and helps me connect more to my plants.

### Kelly commented on 2026-06-01

Make your own

### GreenLeaf commented on 2026-06-02

Mix my own!

### Tara commented on 2026-06-02

i use potting mix, perlite, orchid bark and add something else in depending on what i’m planting

### Tata’s Plants commented on 2026-06-02

Mix my own

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