I am your humble servant. Mick, I failed at propagation. Then I found your video and now I have beautiful baby echeveria all over, cactus from seed, using your advice. I am thrilled, seriously. My cactus are actually flowering for first time
Hello Mick, im about to do seed grow. Wonderful to see you vdo. May i ask where you get the granite from. I live in Melbourne it is hard to find. I saw crush Granite but it has a lot of muddy in it. It is not like yours. Thank you so much.
Hi, thank you. Yes the one I buy has mud in it too. I wash my granite to get all the mud out of it. If you leave the mud in it, it will make your mix very hard and compact. I also screen the granite into 3 to 5mm pieces and remove the larger bits. Good luck 🙂👍
Thank you so much 💓 I very much respect 🙏 you, it is hard work to wash them. Atlases you have a machine to work for you. I have tried a bag last year. I gave up 😆😆 so I'm using scoria at the moment.
Growlights can pretty much be introduced at the start. Sunlight, I would wait until the plants start germinating and then only give them around 1 to 2 hours of sunlight per day and gradually increase that as the plants develop.
Hi, I wait until all the water has been absorbed by the soil and the mix has almost all dried up to put in more water. You don't want the little root systems to be sitting in water 24/7, as that can cause them to rot. You want the mix to get dry enough and allow oxygen to be available for the roots. I hope that helps 🙂👍
Where can I buy crushed granite? I'm in Sydney and struggling to find a supplier online and in store (all the local Bunnings & garden stores don't sell it)
Yeah you can use white or green. Are you in Australia? Garden City Plastics sell the red zeolite. If you can't find granite, you can use pumice or scoria 🙂👍
The zeolite helps with drainage, but also traps the nutrients and stores it for the plants, rather than the nutrients just leeching out through the mix. You get a better nutrient uptake.
Put them in a mineral mix, consisting of either zeolite, perlite, pumice, scoria or granite. This can help speed things up and also if the plants are in their growing season :)
Hmm that's a great question that I'm not sure about. If your after Lithops, you could try Nyssa at Oz Lithops. She would be more up to speed with whether she could send them to Tassie 🙂👍
Thank you for this video. I don't have zeolite and crushed granite, can I use quartz sand and crushed basalt (5mm) instead? does these substrates serves other purposes rather then drainage? currently for Echeveria seeds I'm using 1part potting mix, 2 part vermiculite and 1 part sand. I've noticed that when I bottom watering, it takes a lot of time for the soil to get wet (like hour or more), maybe you know if is it O.k? or maybe something wrong with the proportions if feel its not suppose to be that long? Thank you so much
Those materials instead should work 🙂👍 The soil taking awhile to absorb water, could mean that your soil is hydrophobic. Just don't let it dry out for too long before making it moist to use with your plants/seed.
Thanks mate 🙂🙏 I've been told a couple of years, but they are better when done fresh from my experience. I have had some other seed stored for 6 months, which I'll sow shortly and see how they go 🙂👍
