Vermiculite, perlite and/or pumice

[cagary]

When potting up my palm seedlings, I use both pumice (20%), perlite (20%) and peat moss (60%) with a couple of handfuls per wheelbarrel of ag lime to raise the PH. To this mix I add a couple of gallons of rain water.

Never tried Vermiculite.

What's in your potting up mix?

[Wai`anae Steve]

When potting up my palm seedlings, I use both pumice (20%), perlite (20%) and peat moss (60%) with a couple of handfuls per wheelbarrel of ag lime to raise the PH. To this mix I add a couple of gallons of rain water.

Never tried Vermiculite.

What's in your potting up mix?

For seeds I'm moving to 50% each of perlite and vermiculite. But right now I can't find any vermiculite at W-Mart, K-Mart, H-Depot, or Ace???

[Wai`anae Steve]

When potting up my palm seedlings, I use both pumice (20%), perlite (20%) and peat moss (60%) with a couple of handfuls per wheelbarrel of ag lime to raise the PH. To this mix I add a couple of gallons of rain water.

Never tried Vermiculite.

What's in your potting up mix?

For seedlings I have an old wheel barrow that I fill w/recycled soil from palms that died, soil from the ground around here and Miricle Grow Potting Soil not in any exact mix. There is also some amount of red or black cinder as I use that for top dressing and it gets into the mix from the recycled soil.

[edric]

I use Coco peat coir, with Perlite added, Ed

[Wai`anae Steve]

I use Coco peat coir, with Perlite added, Ed

I bought a "brick" of Coco peat and what a pain in the A..... Had to cut it into smaller chunks w/a recipricating saw and the soak the smaller pieces in water and pull them apart. To many chunks of hard stuff. Gonna use vermiculite and perlite from now on.