Re: Soil mix!!

From: "Clarence Hammer" chammer at cfl.rr.com> on 2002.04.04 at 16:36:51(8461) Thanks, Mark, for the recipe. This is REALLY crunchy, and would work very well here where you can cut the humidity with a knife. +More I've used orchid bark and charcoal in Aroid mixes with very good results. A packaged orchid mix available here contains the bark, charcoal, styrofoam, fern tree bark, and other neat stuff. But it's too expensive to use on a large scale, unfortunately. A Hoya grower on the Fla west coast grows fabulous Hoyas in nothing but cypress mulch and a little peat. Russ.I am having success with a potting mix suggested by a grower of terresterial orchids consisting of fir bark, charcoal, perlite, pumice, coir, and long fiber sphagnum moss- I sometimes add some leaf mould or peat. This mix deteriorates after a couple of years and must be replaced. Mark Mazer

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