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title: "What is everyone’s recommendations on soil and mixtures? Trying to…"
description: "What is everyone’s recommendations on soil and mixtures? Trying to make my own now - i recently bought perlite but i know its not good for all plants!"
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# What is everyone’s recommendations on soil and mixtures? Trying to…

_Posted by addie on 2024-02-24_

What is everyone’s recommendations on soil and mixtures? Trying to make my own now -  
i recently bought perlite but i know its not good for all plants!

## 5 comments

### Tara 🪴👶🏻 commented on 2024-02-24

My mixture is 1 bag cactus soil, 1 bag perlite, 1 bag orchid bark and 2.6lb bag of organic earthworm castings (Amazon). Mix it all up in a 27L Rubbermaid tote. ☺️ My plants love it! 🪴

#### Tara 🪴👶🏻 replied on 2024-02-24

Here are the castings

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/mb5DEgbTUutgxP-qfQt83HeTnHdP7Mo84-W_hgg12dc/_Xoqr2LsQG-huSk7Irl17Q.webp?size=large)

#### addie replied on 2024-02-24

thank you!

### Plant Father commented on 2024-02-24

what kind of plants do you have? most tropicals do well in a 1:1:1 blend of moisture retention (like coco coir and worm castings), organic chunks (like fir bark or coco chips) and inorganic chunks (like perlite and pumice)

### Hens and chicks commented on 2024-02-27

I make all my own soil! I don’t trust all those other brands like miracle gro so I just get a really good all purpose potting mix to use as a base and than I add different things for each kind of plant. Perlite for succulents, sand for my Cherimoya trees, orchid bark for my citrus and so on. I use fox farm ocean forest potting mix.

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