The Perfect Soil by Plant Type | Custom Soil Mix | Houseplant Soil Mix

Good advice in this video. I'll share some things I've observed; I'm pretty casual with soil mix, I keep small perlite, orchid bark, and premium mix handy and do a bunch of plants in one big session, judging by intuition or observed growth/watering behavior what they need as I go, throwing in a dash of this and a dash of that as I go. The only time it has failed is when the potting mix bag was not sealed properly and turns muddy from moisture, the bark and perlite cannot save it. I would also add that moisture-lovers like ferns and peace lillies still need a lot of oxygenation so I give them a lot of bark and just up the watering.

Thank you so much. Explanation was so beautiful and simple. Need to play this video again and again to understand in detail...Om Shanti

I do a mix of peat, perlite and bark in different ratios depending on the plant. I tried Jack's for a Jade plant that needed repotting because it was too top heavy. It did not want to establish new roots, so I added the gritty mix to my basic mix and the plant is doing great now. I have some other succulents in gritty mix but they are much smaller and seem to love it.

As a new plant momma this was a great video

Omg, such great info! I use my own mix very similarcto yours. I'm partial to philodendrons. Slowly moving my plants into this mix. I'm pretty new at this and spend a good deal of my time trying to learn more. Your videos play a big part in that. Thank you so much!❤

What an excellent and informative video! Thank you so much for posting!❤

You did it again ❤😊 gave us another amazing, great, informative video 📷. Thanks for sharing your valuable plant knowledge with us once again, and again, and again 💗 love it🌱💖🌿😉

As always, highly informative! Thank you!

You are by far my favourite. This video is brilliant, as are all of your videos. I really needed this one though. Thank you for helping plant parents so much 😊❤

Very informative 👍

Wow, what a great and helpful video! Love it, thank you very much!👌🏻😊💖

This is the best video I’ve seen on this topic and explains how to fix some of the problems I’ve been having since switching most of my plants to a chunky aroid mix a few weeks ago. Thanks!

Really great video! Super helpful

This video is so very, very helpful. So detailed. Thank you for sharing! ❤❤❤

Thanks for your advice!😄

there is a coconut husk with chunks that's being sold in those bricks and they expand . great option to avoid buying additional barks as it has fine husk and the chunky bark husk mixed

Actually started using orchid clear pots with mix of soil and a chunky bit (i.e. depending on plant type) set over a layer of perlite at bottom of the cover pot it sits in. Have been getting crazy root growth from that, had to resize one 2" into a 3" in just a matter of weeks, and I'm thinking I need to move to a 4" by Dec. Crazy! Also, recently got into using Orchid bark, especially mixing into my more aroid-esque plants. Even for aeration and pests, I'd recomend at least a sprinkle of that mixed with perlite over charcoal.

I too make my own mixtures. It's been trial and error and a few almost dead or dead plants but I'm finally getting it to where I feel I know what all of my plants need. I wanted to watch this video for my goeldlii. It needs to be repotted and since it's not a climbing plant, I wanted to know what mixture I should be using. Thankfully I already have a similar mixture made up! Thank you so much for these videos!

What soil is more convenient to use in a Pot that's gonna be Water from the Top? I'll think about the plants I put there later 💚🌱

I loved your presentation so much! I'm definitely going to transplant some things into a more fitting "soil". Thank you!