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Crushed coral/sand from fish store


Rickybobby

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I have posted before about making soil for my potted coconut. My sandy soil here isn’t the same as ocean beach sand. I wonder if buying bagged crushed coral aquarium sand would work well for my potted coconut ? I have some germinating coconuts right now that will eventually need some soil as well. 

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You can mix a little of the bagged play sand, probably cheaper than aquarium stuff.

I grow a lot in containers and i use 8 bags (2cubic feet each) of pine bark mulch, which is soil conditioner not nuggets. One 3.8 cubic foot bale  of berger  peat moss and half a bag of perlite  (4 cubic foot per bag)  as potting mix 

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Don't use that stuff in pots. I had the same idea a few years ago for some Coccothrinax I was growing and I had to throw the whole thing away because it didn't drain. It's too fine grit. 

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Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

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