A ANSWER OF TYPES " The cement mixer please" or "The five gallon bucket and a paint stick"

From: "Greg Dorst" <gregg1- at charter.net> on 2004.11.24 at 02:15:13(12408) " The cement mixer please" or "The five gallon bucket and a paint mixing stick" That is a good question. I can not say I have got "the answer" but I can tell you that a friend of mine faced with the problem, adding soil to pots without disturbing the rooting.... Now a bit of background on my friend. Plant lover in spare time and by trade a cement worker. .... Now that out of the way, he uses a "slurry of potting soil". The slurry appears like a bit over watered cement. The extra water is there so you can obtain the flow of the slurry into the cavities and spaces you want to fill. You want to be sure that you allow the excess water to freely run out of the pot, be it bottom hole or the way you tilt it so over the edge it goes. Use a second container to catch the spillage. It works very well for me. I have used the cement mixer and you can fill about 40 pots in less than 5 minutes with two people! I have obtained the same results with a five gallon bucket and a paint mixing stick by mixing and pouring at the same time. Speed not an issue with me but its the fastest way to fill pots in advance and in one step mix the potting soil, and add any other items you want to introduce into the soil at the same time. After you use an electric cement mixer you will want MORE POWER. SMILE Gregg +More " The cement mixer please" or "The five gallon bucket and a paint mixing stick" ----- Original Message ----- From: MJ Hatfield To: 'Discussion of aroids' Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 6:19 PM Subject: [Aroid-l] general question A year ago last summer I had an Alocasia hybrid that if it were growing straight would have been about 7? tall. However it had flopped over with the stalk in a big S shape. The plant was therefore about 4? tall and 5? wide. It became too unwieldy to handle so I cut off the top leaving about 4? of stalk assuming it would grow from the good roots. But I couldn?t throw away the cut off top portion so I stuck it in a 5 gallon pot with sphagnum around it. It?s been growing since then and now has 5 leaves on it. But it is time to give it some soil. How do you suggest I do this? I?m sure there are roots all thru the moss and to try to separate the roots from the moss would certainly cause much damage to the roots. However, I can?t just add soil to the pot. Before I dump it out and try to remedy the situation I thought I would ask you, the experts. Thanks. MJ Hatfield _______________________________________________Aroid-l mailing listAroid-l@gizmoworks.comhttp://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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