Best Succulent & Cactus Potting Mix & How To DIY

[@JC84-r8x]

Omg! You are the best!!! Thank you. Prayfully my string of heart will be doing better with your recommendations.

[@SucculentGrowingTips]

Fingers crossed :) Hope they'll grow really well for you. As long as they have a big enough pot for extra root growth and plenty of indirect, bright light they should grow pretty well :) Best of luck

[@phenixwars1]

Excellent video and I appreciate that all your videos include captioning because it helps me focus. It's very difficult to find potting mix without peat in the US but I agree I don't like it either because it becomes hydrophobic easily. I like your mix it's very accessible for all budgets.

[@SucculentGrowingTips]

Thank you so much- so glad the video was helpful 😊 Yes, peat is becoming more common in potting media here too..

[@phenixwars1]

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[@SucculentGrowingTips]

Thank you- i really very much appreciate your honesty. It's so good to know and i will definitely be tweaking my logo and thumbnails a bit! 🙂@@phenixwars1

[@phenixwars1]

@@SucculentGrowingTips You're very welcome 😊

[@senoritadennis1206]

I love watching your videos and I'm just collecting cactus and succulents but my problem is getting the wright potting soil. I used potting mix, garden soil, sand and compost. Thanks for your help.

[@SucculentGrowingTips]

Sounds like that could make a good potting mix if the compost is well rotted. If your succulents grow well in it, you can just keep using that 🙂 Best of luck with your collection 💚

[@senoritadennis1206]

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[@tucklohanan8409]

I have trouble over root rotted,and massive fungus deceased all over my succulents garden as Newcastle had cold and wet for weeks. My potting mix is vermiculite, perlite, coir peat and sand in equal.then add charcoal and slow release fertiliser. Normal it is ok till now. Should I mix in with fertiliser in the medium for leaves propagation? Also thank for the best info succulents. Newcastle AU

[@SucculentGrowingTips]

Yeah, fungus, particularly powdery mildew, is a huge problem. You pretty much have to spray fungicide religiously, according to the instructions (i think every couple of weeks) to keep it at bay. We've had a dry winter here in the Blue Mountains so not a big problem for me this year, but i had to spray the last 3 winters all the time.. Yes- add fertilizer for leaf props. I just use succulent potting mix- works well and should have the fertilizer mixed in :) Hope this helps.

[@rosalynharris1808]

thank you for your very informative video!!!

[@SucculentGrowingTips]

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[@Equinella]

This is gold. Thank you. Could you advise what you use in the video as Coarse Grit, where it might be found, or another name it might be called by, the size (seems significantly larger than the pumice).. having difficulty finding anything like that here (California) 🙏🏻🌸

[@SucculentGrowingTips]

Thank you ☺The coarse grit in the video is graded river sand/rocks (5-20mm). There's a product here but i'm not sure if you'd get it in the states as it's made by an Aussie company. You should also be able to get large grit horticultural pumice- i think the grade is about 7-20mm (0.2-0.8inch). You could try Amazon- they tend to have stuff like this 🙂

[@joanneking7019]

Where do I find composted pine bark fines please?

[@JC84-r8x]

Would you share what potting soil brand you use?

[@SucculentGrowingTips]

Sure- ours is made by a company called Debco aka AGS (Australian Growing Solutions), though the exact formula we get is not available in the shops.. If you are in Aus, you should be able to buy their succulent potting mix in garden centres though :)

[@ankitaviradia7878]

Can I use pea stone/ terra garden stone/ granite garden stone instead of pumice & coarse grit? And instead of composed pine barks is it okay to use mulch?

[@SucculentGrowingTips]

Technically, if they are small you can for aeration purposes, though i'm not sure if they can leach anything into the soil and therefore affect the ph. I'd advise to wash them well first. pumice and coarse grit are better though as they have likely been prepared for use as an additive to soils.🙂

[@ankitaviradia7878]

@SucculentGrowingTips I live in canada and its difficult to get different supplies in store in small amount... I am looking for a help that can guide me which products I can use and make my own mix which is not to expensive...

[@ankitaviradia7878]

@@SucculentGrowingTips I was thinking Golfgreen Organic Potting Soil w/ Mycorrhizae, mixed with perlite or pumice. Would that work for all my seccullents?

[@marialakshmi2330]

I would advise no mulch. Skip pine bark if bark isn’t already in the mix you buy. Osmocote succulent mix has a lot of bark already. Just double the grit instead, two TBS or equal parts pumice and grit. I can’t get pumice here so use perlite but find it floats to the surface which is annoying 😐

[@leanneharrison6368]

Coud not understand some ingrediance due to your accnt. Can u go slower and put the name of product in bold some of us are almost blind and need things bold in words and slow i love ur info thank u i just couldnt understand some of ur ingredients due to ur accent