Onlyplants Potting Mix | Ingredients, Benefits, Pros and Cons 

I like how selfless sean's video is, like he share the different soil mix with the world and getting down dirty in plants propagation, I mean really dirty. Have not come across any plantubers that do this. Hope he reaches his 100k soon.

Honesty and caring is what I appreciate in you ! Thank you dearest Sean! Another great video for our plants!!

All my plants want to say "Hello! 😁" and "Thank you so much, Sean!" 💚

Thank you Sean, I’ve been waiting for this video. Saved it!

Thank you Sean. I'm so grateful for all this valuable information. Much more hopeful for my houseplants thanks to you!

Thanks for showing all the potting mixes. Will have to incorporate some of those ingredients into my potting mix for hoyas, and succulents.

Thanks for sharing us wonderful plant mix!

The anti microbial properties of bamboo are such a great benefit! And super sustainable. At The Soil Bar we also have a Forest Floor Mix here in the U.S that’s similar to yours. Clearly your forest floor mix is awesome! Look at your plants!

Took notes like a student :) Very informative. Many of my plants need a potting mix upgrade. Your videos are fantastic.

Always very informative !! Thank you !!

Thanks! These are really very useful and helping.

super helpful!!! i will probably try and experiment on these with my plants! thanks!!

Thanks for sharing. Always go through your videos for tips..

Thank you we need this important information.

Your humility is so refreshing! Thank you for all the hard work.

Great content! Here in Costa Rica we don't have some of those ingredients, so what I have learned from you is to play with the ratio of each component that I have here (coco coir, charcoal, perlite, pumice, coconut husk and worm castings) depending of the type of plant I'm repotting. :D My only wish is to have the ingredients to recreate the forest floor mix, it looks so yummy! haha Thank you!

Enjoying the videos and the captions are funny lol

sooo good... Love to watch...

Amazing sharing.. 🌷🌷

Yes i also use charcoal in my nonsoil mix!

Yes, I can see/feel your passion,💪 tysm for this video!😘 Very relatable,☺️ I've killed lots, due to my own wrong potting mix and fly by night sellers'. Sending 💞 from your neighbor 🇵🇭 Philippines!'

I love your content! I realized that in the USA that the potting mixes are too general. So I bought all the ingredients and combined them depending on the plants needs. I definitely learned a lot from this video and I will try and get some more ingredients!

Thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you!!

Nice.... Owesome...

I used saw dust of narra Tree mahogay Tree and Acacia Tree..Coconut Tree as well. Coco cube and dried leaves

Thanks for ur knowledge sharing sean/shawn.....keep going and will be waiting for another

wow, thanks! such a comprehensive soil mix explanation, really helpful for a beginner like me. thankfully i'm living in indonesia and all the materials are pretty easy to get! :)

Hey man this is great content again I am learning heaps on your videos. Forest Floor mix and Aroid mix holy cow I am learning so much. Because you keep talking about Air/Aeration 90 percent of the time. I have now leanrt that Roots LOVE AIR its not Soil. Because I thought all plants in the world live in Soil like the compact the better. But soil is there way of absorbing the necessary nutrients and Micro Nutrient because it retains a certain amount of moisture for the roots to suck on. And also it helps keep them cool from being too warm or too hot for so long. And this is all from your teachings. This is why some of my Alocasias are thriving. I Had to get rid of the coco peat perlite and lots of potting mix recipes for my Alocasias. Root Rot is the killer of all my plants including my CAlathea. Making it 70% Chunky is the way to go for these plants because they hate soggy water for too long. Thank you, Thank you Again. I know some plants do love Loamy soil like Lavender, lettuce and Tomatoes but I just go to the shop for food lol.

It’s so funny how different your potting mix is compared to what we have in the US. Never even heard of burnt rice hull lol… I believe what you are calling coconut peat we called coconut coir. Also instead of coconut chips we have pine bark chips. Your aroid potting mix looks very similar to what is sold here as orchid potting mix. So interesting😀 Just started watching your videos. I love them! It’s also so fascinating to me to see houseplants in some of their native environments aka Southeast Asia/Indonesia

Very useful content. What about the ratios of different components in each soil mix?

This was very informative, from Brisbane Australia

You dont believe that i was surching ur new video...but not upload then i watching ur old video then u upload this video 😀

I do water my succulents once in 3 or 4 days as i have put them in full sunlight. I found one of my aloes shrivelled on watering weekly once. Now it has plumped up

I'm down with you with the "faster drainage better". i know we can have most aroids on more "wet"substrate, but for me, a substrate that dries fast enough that you have to water 2 or 3 times per week works way better (specially for us, tropical climates inhabitants lol). And i can confirm that your mixes would work really well, at least in tropical areas like mine and yours, because without any influence of you , my potting mixes, that i achive by trying out A LOT of ingredients and mixes, came out to be almost identical with yours ,except for 4 diferences, 1 in each kind of substrate : The akadama on the succulent sub. (waaay too expensive here in brazil, we are in fact a lot more far away from japan than you guys lol, i use tritured bricks, not as good, but good enough for something 1/20 the price lol) The coconut chips , here, our cocopalms are all growing in the coastal areas, and we dont have an reliable source of salt ant tanine free coconut chips, even tho we do have good source of coconut "peat", since these one is used in convencional agriculture here ( "industrial" germination, etc), instead i just use bark, and a little more peat since bark is less water absorvent. The bamboo ind the forest floor, i use dried thick leaves, we dont have this bamboo product here, and i had never heard of it untill this video, would be nice to try out if that someday became a thing in brazil) And in the "garden/trees/shrubs" sub. i also add a little bit of non carbonized, just dried rice husk, (i just bake or cook it a little so it kill the rice seeds that are still alive there), for most substrates, the "non carbonized"husk is not ideal, it retains way to much water, but for these purpose, it works really well for me, and it is veeeery cheap and eco-friendly!

Oh em gee!! I LOVED this!! Thank you so much. Could we use cinnamon in place of the rice hull for anti microbial properties?

Took 40 seconds to subscribe. Great video.

I wish I could just buy this where I live but it also inspired me to make my own! My problem is moisture inside the containers leading to algae-is there a better way I can store my potting mix for more long term use? Thank you for this video 🥰

Oooo! I was wondering when you were gonna come out with the CNS and general-compost-y potting mix. Haha

My dog’s name is Gia too :) She is 10 years old miniature yorkshire terrier and she is like my second daughter :) lt was so funny when l watched yours video first time And l find your baby’s name is Gia too :) l love your knolague And passion for plants :) l just started my collection at this year but l am really happy with my 200 plants all ready :) l wish you and all our plants comunity a lot off love and good people around :) god with us :) god in us :) regards from Poland :) ♥️

At what rates do you mix your general potting mix do you have the recipe in parts

Hi Sean watching you from the States. What can be substituted for the akadama, burnt rice hulls, dried bamboo and dried twigs?? Sorry, most of these are not available in our garden centers or big box stores. *What we have readily available are: Perlite, vermiculite, horticultural charcoal, worm castings, coco coir bricks and bagged (chips can be found in some pet stores I believe). Also, will regular rice hulls work the same instead of burnt??

Hello Sean, I live in Bali and I see that many nurserys start and keep their young plants in a mix of sekam bakar and tanah subur, what do you think of it, it seems to be working very well for my own cuttings

I searched for the burnt rice hulls and the only suppliers I could find were in Indonesia. Found one on Ebay with free shipping. Will give it a try. Are there substitutes for the burnt rice hulls that do the same thing?

Great sharing. May I know which mix is recommended for snake plants? Thank you 🙂

Do you soak cocopeat to remove tannin first? Or use it right away from the bag?

Hi Sean, can I plant snake plant in aroid potting mix? I kept them in my bathroom with very high humidity

Thank you for your excellent video! What is the potting mix for indoors Rosemary? Thanks again!!

Great video ​ @onlyplants! Do you buffer coco peat and coco chips before adding those to the mix or is washing it enough?

Thanks for this amazing. video. What can I use instead of dried bamboo?

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Firstly, I'd like to say thank you for the VERY helpful and valuable video! And, while watching it, I got a question. If I'm not mistaken, both general mix and garden mix are mainly composed of coco peat, and with some perlite, burnt rice husk, etc. But, water retention and drainage are said to be quite different. Colors look very different as well to the extent that the main ingredient of general mix seems like peat moss while that of garden mix seems like coco peat. In short, the main ingredients of both of them are coco peat, but water drainage and color are very different. Can I ask what is the main factor of different water drainage?

Hey Sean - what are your thoughts on pumice as a planting medium ?

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Thank you for this info. I wish your soils were available to purchase here but perhaps I can replicate them with this information. What is the alocasia at 11:19? It almost looks like a black velvet but the leaves appear shiny.

I'm waiting you to make videos about carnivorous plant, especially Nepenthes. 😉😉😉

Have you ever used pasir malang? Can we substitute the pumice with that?

Which mix would you recommend for a Neon Pothos Sean? Thank you

Hi! Is this still useful for indoor grown aroids?

Hai, for dried twigs, should i use kaliandra or andam? 😊

Can we use regulr charcoal instead of horticultural charcoal?

Would syngonium like the airy aroid mix too?

Can you use regular rice hulls instead of burnt rice hulls?

If you use worm casting for Monstera, will worms develop after sometime? Just scared of worms crawling out from the pot.

Thx for the potting mix tip! And you have a very nice handsome face! So don't be shy to show sometimes 🙂

Which mix will be suited for caladium ? How to make it slight acidic ?

Hi guy good arw tgey good for orchids or anthriums?, my best gardener

Whats horticultural charcoal? Is it different from activated charcoal?

What's the bamboo stuff in the forest floor mix called.. bamboo shavings?

Hello there, I actually made my mix for my anthoriums but i think there is still missing on it like i wanna add alnus compost to it, what do you think if i need to add this compost or not… so here’s my mix: -vermaculite -perlite -bark chips -rice hulls -charred rice hulls I also had the coco cubes at the bottom of the pots when i repot my anthorium..

Just wanna share my experience here. I use that, similar to, your epiphytic mix for my peperomia caperata and it's still alive and well now._

When you say coco peat are you referring to coco coir? Peat moss? A blend?

What is the difference between using rice hulls vs burnt rice hulls?

Subtitles do is 👍

what's the difference between charcoal and horticultural charcoal?

If only I could provide such beautiful soil mixes for my plants, I’m going to pray my commitment continues and I make more money (currently unemployed, seeking), time and space to similar mixes and truly provide my plants the best home possible ;) I have 40-50 houseplants under grow light in an apartment:/

Which one should we use for Alocasia?

What percentages do you mix your general potting soil at?

Succulents and cacti murderers! ✋🏽 LOL

Schade, dass ich kein englisch verstehe. Hätte gern gewusst aus was Aroid Potting mix besteht!😢

Kenapa ga ada translate ke b Indonesia ?

I don't understand but l am myanmar

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