Best Succulent & Cactus Potting Mix & How To DIY

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Good quality succulent potting mix is an important part of growing beautiful succulents. It can be difficult to find a good brand that has all the right ingredients and porosity.
In this video we will have a look at what succulent potting mix should look like, what shouldn't be in succulent potting mix and how to diy.
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Timeline
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Ideal potting mix for succulents & cacti
02:33 What succulent potting mix shouldn't look like
06:04 DIY succulent potting mix
11:19 Succulent potting mix recipe
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@JcL979 2 жыл бұрын

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

@SucculentGrowingTips 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Equinella2 5 күн бұрын

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 4 күн бұрын

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 🙂

@rosalynharris1808 Жыл бұрын

thank you for your very informative video!!!

@SucculentGrowingTips Жыл бұрын

🙂💚

@phenixwars1 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@phenixwars1 8 ай бұрын

@@SucculentGrowingTips I was going to tell you that KZfaq had suggested your videos to me for a while now but I didn't watch them because your logo looks a lot like the logo for a channel called Succulents Box. I've watched their videos and I feel they don't have accurate information so I avoid them. Because of the logo I associated your channel with theirs. Maybe you can tweak your logo slightly so others don't have the same issue. It's just a suggestion of course, I understand that logos are very personal so I understand if you don't agree. I've subscribed to your channel now and I'll be binge watching your old videos this winter 😊

@SucculentGrowingTips 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

@@SucculentGrowingTips You're very welcome 😊

@senoritadennis1206 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

@@SucculentGrowingTips 🙏🏾

@joanneking7019 2 ай бұрын

Where do I find composted pine bark fines please?

@tucklohanan8409 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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.

@JcL979 2 жыл бұрын

Would you share what potting soil brand you use?

@SucculentGrowingTips 2 жыл бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

@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 3 ай бұрын

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

@marialakshmi2330 10 сағат бұрын

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 😐