My potted palms and soil issues

[Rickybobby]

Ok so my potted palms I have shown In numerous pics and whines all came from Florida and came in nursery specific soil. The palms seemed to be doing very well. They were all potted up just slightly ever so slightly to decorative pots. I used pro mix hp. Which is peat moss mix and perlite. I understand the soil issues people talk about on this site. I’m struggling to find a lot of the ingredients. I have a lead on clay pebbles. (Very expensive it seems as well for the numerous palms I have) the fine pine bark chips don’t seem to exist here. More like large mulch nuggets. Too large. So my rant. I live in Ontario Canada. When I add some pro mix to the tops of the palms when I plant them up it doesn’t stay soaked at all but very moist and a lot of the roots that are growing near the surface of the palm seem to have some rot near the ends. If I dig down deeper toward the edge of the pots the roots are growing and nice and white. And can’t dig in the middle cause there’s to many roots. Which is a good thing. So what else can I do? Do you guys Recommend mixing in some play sand beach sand? To help dry the soil out a little faster? My coconut which is in a 3 gallon pot has some slight root rot on the top as well. It’s my baby and I don’t want to hurt it so I have mixed some play sand in the soil to help keep it not so wet. Is this a good step? Should I get the clay pebbles and mix them in? Or am I just too wet in between intervals. 

 

Thanks everyone 

rob

[Rickybobby]

Seramis doesn’t exist here. Most of these things you guys use is not on shelves here. 

[palmad Merc]

http://www.ontariogrowerssupply.com/page.php?pageType=singleCat&catId=100035615&view=grid

They have clay pebbles for $39 per 50 litres

This will go a long way

[Steve Mac]

You should be able to get 'Turface MVP' in Ontario . It is similar to Seramis.

It is in that link above that Merc gave you.

 

[Rickybobby]

3 hours ago, gtsteve said:

You should be able to get 'Turface MVP' in Ontario . It is similar to Seramis.

It is in that link above that Merc gave you.

 

Thank you I think I have found some it’s tough here 

[Rickybobby]

4 hours ago, palmad Merc said:

http://www.ontariogrowerssupply.com/page.php?pageType=singleCat&catId=100035615&view=grid

They have clay pebbles for $39 per 50 litres

This will go a long way

It’s too bad this place is 3 hours of driving for a bag of clay. 

[palmad Merc]

Oh,bugger

[Steve Mac]

Look on ebay for Turface MVP

They will send it to nearly anybody from ebay.... just not to Australia unfortunately.

 

 

[PalmatierMeg]

I recently bought some Turface off ebay to repot my Lytocaryum hoehnii and will work up a soil mix

[Alcibiades]

You can order Seramis on this website. Currently the regular Seramis is out of stock though and they only sell the Seramis Orchid mix which already contains pine bark. 

 

https://www.germandeli.com/searchResults?keywords=Seramis&order=custitem_is_orderable:desc,relevance

[Laaz]

Those prices for Turface are a rip off. You can get it from landscape supply shops for $17 for a 50LB bag.

Use the locator to find a seller in your area.   https://www.turface.com/find-a-distributor