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just me :)
Join Date: Jul-2006
Location: South Florida
Country: us
Posts: 412
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I use pure turface for my Portulacaria afra (after seeing a local bonsai nursery do the same). They are succulents and don't like wet feet, so it works out fine. In the summer I do have to keep up on the watering even for them though.
As for ficus, they didn't like the pure turface because it's too dry. Half and half with orchid bark (had a leftover bag) and they were happy, half and half with soil and they were really happy (too happy......gotta go find the saw.....).
The other tropicals (black olive, raintree, etc) just get a mix of turface/soil/bark and lots and lots of water.
The jaboticaba get soil.....they like wet feet here.
During the summer, many of my plants get stood in shallow containers of water even with using soil.
I also use turface as a top dressing, it makes a good soil watering indicator-if it looks bone dry I waited too long for anything other than the p. afra!
I do fertilize often during the summer when all the watering is done... weekly at some points.
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