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Styrofoam

SeanK
SeanK
in PALMS IN POTS

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I received some Styrofoam pieces in a shipment yesterday.

  • Do any of you use this in your potting mixes?

  • Do I just hand-crumble it into tiny pieces and add to cheap soil?

I suppose you could use it . I use perlite . I just bought a pretty big bag at Ace for $10. The thing with styrofoam is that it is hard to contain. Little pieces go everywhere when you break it up. Harry

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    No no no, it’s not good in your soil , the roots grow through it, and when you plant your palm the stuff goes everywhere. I myself use styrofoam box’s to germinate in so iam guilty of using this environmental hazard material. It’s slowly being fased out in the food industry in Australia. Fish mongers use the box’s, chemist use the box’s to get medicine in that needs to kept cool.

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    I never thought about roots clinging to or growing through styrofoam. That would be enough to keep me from trying it . My concern was just the mess it can create . I did use aquarium gravel (white) , that I got somewhere for a pond I was building , when I was out of perlite . It seemed to mix in the potting soil ok but not as good as perlite. That’s why I bought the big bag of it recently. Harry

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