Hec
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Yea, am going to the one or two mix idea...but those listed are all soils I have used that do work..... The yard sand mixes were also before I found my local source of turface
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Think I'm gonna mostly stick with the half and half mix (turface and bark) cause I'm getting lazy in my old
age and am tired of trying to remember who is potted in what. Now to find a source of small cheap bark! The bigger portulacaria that I'm not trying to grow out will get more turface though....
Sifting? Bahh humbug. I've sifted.........and gotten a sore back.... forget it. For now, I just take out the big big stuff. I sift up whatever I've mixed up, pot the bigger trees first (the big stuff makes its way to the top) and wait till the bottom of the bucket to pot up the small trees since the smaller stuff will be there. I sifted out the last bag of turface in a colander... until I realized I was losing most of it! grrrr.
I forgot to add, I've also used Scultz Cactus soil for the succulents and some ficus. Only problem I found is after a year or so the peat tends to take over (and the sand has washed out) and it's hard to rewet... but works fine for small pots that are repotted often!