Recipe: - 4 parts peat moss - 4 parts silica sand - 3 parts horticultural pumice - 2 parts perlite - (optional) 1 part fluval stratum as fertilizer Mix the ingredients above then add the following: - less than 1 part (1/4thish?) houseplant soil with (3/4ish part) distilled water cover - test to ensure it is inert with TDS meter. Swirl with small amounts of water to get all the soil out and into your mix
Sand is typically made up of silicate material. The volcanic sand I would imagine is more mafic in composition. However, since the pumice is volcanic, I don’t see why it wouldn’t. What if you tested them out to see.
Thanks for the ping receive. Do you have any update on your ping growing in this mix?
So far the tropical butterworts they’re doing well in that media.
Recipe:
- 4 parts peat moss
- 4 parts silica sand
- 3 parts horticultural pumice
- 2 parts perlite
- (optional) 1 part fluval stratum as fertilizer
Mix the ingredients above then add the following:
- less than 1 part (1/4thish?) houseplant soil with (3/4ish part) distilled water cover - test to ensure it is inert with TDS meter. Swirl with small amounts of water to get all the soil out and into your mix
Thank you. Won't the houseplant soil in your recipe render the water no longer inert when testing with the TDS meter?
@@Growing-Things- no clue! I just typed out everything so it's easier for me when i come back to the video 😅
Cool beans.
Ty for the tips, I was just thinking on addin a couple of butterworts workers for my cannabis garden
Cool beans.
I do 1 part sphagnum moss and 1 part perlite. But mostly because I’m broke. 💚😂
Did you use regular fluval stratum or bio fluval stratum?
I used Fluval Plant and Shrimp Stratum.
Do volcanic sand and white silica sand work?
Sand is typically made up of silicate material. The volcanic sand I would imagine is more mafic in composition. However, since the pumice is volcanic, I don’t see why it wouldn’t. What if you tested them out to see.
Could you tell me what brand of sand you used please
The brand is Mosser Lee.
What kind of sand??
It says on the package desert sand and that it’s used for interior house plants.
@@Growing-Things- thank you!
but this is a mix for european or north america? not mexican? because so much peat
I have tropical butterworts currently growing in that medium and are happy. I hope to try the mix with a temperate variety soon.
@@Growing-Things- okay because I have Mexican ones and searching for good soil mix, and every source say other mixes... So I will try my own mix 😂😅
I hope yours works out well.