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mixing soil for tropical plants

3 years ago

Hello,
I’m new in here, I’ve been reading some of Al’s messages, I’m bit confuse now.

I live in UK and I bought two 50L bags of BIOBIZZ soil (light mix) which is Baltic peat moss, combination of Peat moss, Sphagnum peat with EC 1.2 and PH 6.1.
I’ve just start using it with perlite and worm castings and activate charcoal, pumice and vermiculite and barks depending on my plants depending to the type of plants, but I was told peat moss is not good and instead coco coir should be use.
I will send you an article about it! It says basically peat moss over the time compact the roots and restrict them.
For example my monstera/philodendron mix is as below

BIOBIZZ peat moss 30%
Perlite 10%
Bark 30%
Coarse Pumice 10%
Worm Castings 10%
Activated Charcoal 10%
What’s wrong with this?

For calathea I’ve used

BIOBIZZ 50%
Perlite 10%
Vermiculite (larger version)10%
Fine or coarse Pumice 10%
Activated Charcoal (small grains) 10%
Worm Castings 10%

Is it better if I use coco coir (30% for monstera and 50% for calathea) instead of BIOBIZZ?

I really need a good advice. Please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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