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18.01.2024 - 23:01 / backyardgardener.com / Frederick Leeth
Pumice is also used as the top dressing and to provide extra bottom drainage. Provide encapsulated slow-release fertilizer with minor trace elements once a year and repot yearly.
All the plant material coming into the Botanical Garden nursery, whether it is seed, cutting or bare root material, is grown in these mixes and the nursery has a 60-70% success rate of all these plant materials.
4 Bushels of Lakeland coarse
peat (to be measured)
4 Bushels of Turface -3 bags
3.3 Bushels of Aqua sand (AE3) -4 bags
2 Bushels of screened pasteurized soil (15%)
Add by weight
Dolomite
65AG;
Micromax
Aqua-Gro `G’
Osmocote 18-6-12
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Standard Potting Mix
Cornell Epiphytic Soil Mixture Recipe
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Cuttings: I use composted manure mixed with sawdust to root cuttings in — it works great; don’t need rooting hormones.
George Schenk’s recipe for the ideal soil for growing plants in shade.
Cuttings: I use composted manure mixed with sawdust to root cuttings in — it works great; don’t need rooting hormones.
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