🔥🔥🔥 The BEST substrate for EPIPHYTAL plants like ORCHID cacti or Hoya carnosa. How to prepare the PERFECT substrate for EPIPHYTAL plants.
In nature, epiphytic plants live on the surface of trees, either the trunk or branches, so their roots are exposed to the air, they are not sheltered from the ground, so they are adapted to different conditions than the most plants.
Epiphytic plants need a lot of aeration in the soil so that the roots can breathe, so the substrate must have a lot of oxygenation and under no circumstances be compact or caked, that dries quickly and retains moisture in its proper measure.
We are going to prepare the ideal substrate that is very draining, slightly retains moisture and is porous to capture nutrients and that acts as a slow release fertilizer.
Soil materials:
- Perlite
- Vermiculite
- Cactus substrate
- Orchid substrate
- Coconut fiber
- Charcoal
Epiphytic plants:
- Most orchids
- Cactus epiphyllum
- Bromeliads
- Some ferns
- Various types of moss
- Hoya carnosa
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18 май 2020
