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Hydrolega or Pumice


Patrick Palms

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I have herd that Pumice or Hydrolega is better than soil for plants, as gives roots oxygen with out flooding the roots. Can this mix be used for palms also? A grower in Sweden, said for last ten years, he only uses pumice gravel. Roots bigger and stronger

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There are many topics on this subject here. Give it a search.

Naples (inland), FL - technically 10a but more like 9b in the winter :hmm:

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On 30/11/2018, 5:07:41, Patrick Palms said:

I have searched. Not much info..Apart from Swedish chap, on youtube

You should invite him to this forum...

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On 29. 11. 2018, Patrick Palms said:

I have herd that Pumice or Hydrolega is better than soil for plants, as gives roots oxygen with out flooding the roots. Can this mix be used for palms also? A grower in Sweden, said for last ten years, he only uses pumice gravel. Roots bigger and stronger

Hello, I use pumice but pure pumice as soil is not enough. I'm using it as a part of potting mix. I would add some more parts (for example lava, perlite, seramis...). I made an evaporate test of pure pumice and it was dry really fastly. You would water your palms every day if you used this as only part of potting mix.

 

I'm actually trying some new combinations of soil. In the photo is mix of Seramis, zeolite, pumice, lava, perlite, Liapor 1-4mm (=baked clay as ceramsite). Evaporate isn't bad, but I will try add some organical part as pinium bark chips. 

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