Re: Soil mix!!

From: angel morales angel151 at earthlink.net> on 2002.04.02 at 22:54:39(8424) Hmmm, I thought the same thing about Perlite: it has a tendency to float up to the top of my pots too, which I don't like, as the pots then look like there is some kind of fungal growth on them as a result. Just the other day, I rescued a syngonium, from a plant store that wasn't paying much attention to the health of the plant , and the plant was languishing in some poor state. At any rate, I did buy the plant and thought, that this plant might be suffering from some blight, of a fungal nature, as the floating perlite particles at the time , were not identified by me, to be that of perlite. Well, needless to say, after rinsing off all soil from the root ball, and repotting in a fresh soil mix, with perlite added to the mix, the floating particles did once again appear before me, at the top of the pot , and were correctly identified as perlite ; took this much to learn that they don't always stay in the actual mix , and do tend to float up to the tops of pots ..argh!! +More thanks angel -- Angel151@earthlink.net

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