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title: "Looking for some advice for my elephant bush!! What’s the best soil…"
description: "Looking for some advice for my elephant bush!! What’s the best soil mixture for these kind of succulents"
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community: "The Cactus & Succulent Circle"
author: "Kim"
published: "2025-01-29T23:08:43.777983Z"
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# Looking for some advice for my elephant bush!! What’s the best soil…

_Posted by Kim on 2025-01-29_

Looking for some advice for my elephant bush!! What’s the best soil mixture for these kind of succulents

## 3 comments

### Tyler commented on 2025-01-30

This questions is the equivalent of going into a trade school and asking which motor oil is best. Lol  
For the elephant bush, I’d stick with a 70/30 or 60/40 of inorganic and organic material. Stay away from peat, if you can. If it’s going to sit on a windowsill for its entire life lean towards faster draining. If it’ll be outside come spring/summer/fall, add more organic material so the dog days of summer don’t evaporate the moisture before it can absorb enough. If you’re in plastic lean more inorganic and more organic if you have unglazed terracotta. Above all else, water when the leaves begin to get a little saggy or wrinkly, regardless of your potting choices—these are less forgiving to wet feet than something similar in the crassula family.

#### Kim replied on 2025-01-30

Thank you

### Jillian Champ commented on 2025-01-31

A well draining succulent/cactus soil

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