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Mine kinda depends on what plant i'm potting up. I use peat, perlite, a little vermiculite, lava rock, sand, orchid bark, sphagnum moss and charcoal in varying mixes. I personally hate perlite...so when I use it, I try to do a top dressing of pure peat.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BigCarnivourKid @ Feb. 06 2003,9:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My current favorite planting medium for most of my CPs is a Peat: Perlite:LFS mix of 1:1:whatever looks about right
I prefer peat/sand (except for nepenthes), but for some reason I can never find sand around here (or when I can, all the bags are ripped open...) so I'm stuck using peat/perlite.
I am kind of like Suzanne, I use a variety of mixes. Most of my Drosera are in a peat:sand mix, terrestrial Utrics get peat:sand:milled sphag. My Mexi-Pings have a mix made of about 9 different components (overkill I know but I was bored one weekend.) Neps and epiphytic Utrics get custom mixes depending on habitat. My Sarrs are all in LFS. I guess it just depends on my mood
Just lazy I guess, I mix water with my peat moss. I only use anything else when the particular plant fails to perform satisfactorily in my favorite media, peat moss with water. Next favorite option is dead NZ or Chile long fiber Sphagnum and sometimes a little sand with the peat for plants like Drosera indica.
I play a little with soil mixes....
pete/perlite is my #1 for most...BUT
LFS pure is #1 for neps
other experiments are:
pure LFS for 'dews....didn't do as well as the pete/perlite mix...and I keep having to weed out that $#@! grass that grows in LFS.
For two neps I have a pete/perlite/orchidbark/charcol mix of 1:1:1:1.
by the way,
Suzane:
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It's snowing here right now....there's 4 inches of new snow on the ground...and the boss won't let us go out and play....
I guess I'm kind of lazy too. I use whatever's available. Which is usually Peat, Perlite, and LFS. Although, I do agree with PlantAKiss. Perlite is very distracting, that's why I always try to top dress the soil.
P.S. It's snowing here too. We just got 8".
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