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Soil Mediums
Repotting Tropical Indoor Plants
The right soil mix can help your plants grow healthy and strong. As someone who likes to water my plants every few days my soil mix is extra chunky. This allows for more than enough aeration for plant roots to breath. I add Orchid Bark as my main ingredient they give plant roots a tree like surface to hold on to. I adjust my mediums depending on the size of the roots and pot size. Hoyas roots are in general much thinner than the roots of Aroids. Which for me means instead of using the coarse or large pieces of perlite and bark I mix in fine grades.
For Aroids in a 6 inch or bigger pot.
50% Orchid Bark large or medium
20% Perlite
20% Charcoal
10% Pumice or Tree Fern
For Hoyas & Aroids 2-6 inch planter.
50% Orchid Bark fine
20% Perlite
20% Charcoal
10% Pumice for Aroids / 10% Cactus Soil for Hoyas
Cactus Mix
A good cactus soil mix contains one part organic matter, such as potting soil or coconut coir, to two parts mineral material, such as sand, perlite or a fine rinsed gravel.
Orchid Bark Coarse
Orchid Bark is a multipurpose soil amendment and substrate that helps create ideal growing conditions for aroids, hoyas, orchids and ferns.
It’s natural acidic provides a pH level often in the range of 4.0 – 5.0
The picture shows large pieces great for pot sizes 5 inch and up.
Tree Fern
Very resistant to breaking down, tree fern fiber keeps your growing mix from compacting and smothering roots. Keeps drainage and airflow open. A gourmet ingredient to your potting mix.
Peat Moss
All natural sphagnum Peats unique water-holding capabilities help plants require less watering. Use it in container plants and in-ground plants.
New Zealand Sphagnum Moss
New Zealand Sphagnum Moss
New Zealand Sphagnum Moss
Premium New Zealand Sphagnum Moss is harvested from the pristine environment of New Zealand. Naturally air dried to ensure a maximum Water Holding Capacity (WHC) of 96%. This allows the moss to retain water and nutrients for easy release to the plant without accumulating unwanted salts. Great for propagation and addition to your soil mix.
Fine Perlite
New Zealand Sphagnum Moss
New Zealand Sphagnum Moss
It is one very important ingredient for every potting mix. Perlite helps prevent soil compaction and promotes strong root developmentIt improves drainage and aeration in potting mixes which if not provided can causes deadly root rot.
Click the picture for Fine grade perlite or the link for Large grade perlite pieces.
Charcoal
New Zealand Sphagnum Moss
Charcoal
Charcoal is an all-natural high carbon material that can help improve soils. It is produced by heating untreated hardwoods to very high temperatures in a process called pyrolysis.
The result is an excellent soil conditioner which adds better drainage in containers.
Also great as soil cover.