I'm so grateful you posted these videos on soil! Started using Gary's top pot for dragon fruit and now acid mix for my roses and they all do well. Thank you
I've started to convert to organic farming by switching all my pots (eventually) to sand/sunshine 4/ pumice! I also started using bloodmeal as per your video, and im very excited to see how happy they will be :)
Hey Paul, You have a nice little property there and i always wonder why you plant your dragons in pots rather than directly in the ground like some of the commercial growers do. Do you prefer to plant in pots as it gives you more control of the soil around the plant? Im tossing up whether i should do pots or direct in ground
I've mixed my own potting soils over the years depending on what I'm growing. I've found the commercial mixes all benefit from additional perlite to improve drainage and aeriation, reducing pathogens and rot. After watching your videos I've switched over to Sunshine Mix 4 and have been very pleased with the results. What I've found works really well is a 4:2:1 mix of 4 parts Sunshine mix, 2 parts sand, and 1 part course perlite. I also add some Extreme mycorrhizae to the mix to help boost the beneficial organisms. My garden has a good population of earthworms so I always drop in six into my small pots, more into my large ones to generate worm casting naturally. May try adding a bit of rock phosphate this year to see if it helps boost budding. Thanks again for the great videos!
Very awesome, great tips. I like perlite #4 because of the size. Pumice is another mineral based material that dragons love. I rooted many in 100% pumice last season. I like your ratios
I got a patio dragon fruit plant I need to transplant soon and I’m getting info overload when it comes to soil. Did I understand correctly that it can be planted in just sand? If do, where will it get nutrients? I use a mixture of either commercial potting mix, perlite, a little compost and worm casting or coco coir, peat moss, worm casting and perlite for most of my plants. Would either of those work and what type of fertilizer should I use?
Great video and analysis. If you top off the pots containing Fox Farm or coconut coir that have declined (in media height), won't you be risking stem rot? I inevitably get potted fruit trees from nurseries that have added "soil" to the top of pots that have compressed and many of them developed stem rot. Now, I remove that topped off "soil", pull the plant out of the pot and put a more permanent media under it to re-establish proper height in the container.
That is a good idea. I believe the pots with worm castings and chunky coconut coir will do ok when I add more of the mixture. They others will get our potting mix and then a fine layer of top dressing with Fox Farms. I’ve seen some plants not rot and get super woody and dense. I happed to pull out a yellow Thai the other day that I stuck in very deep when I started growing dragons. It got very woody. Email me and I’ll send you a picture. I agree with you it’s better to raise the plant if possible instead of adding more media to the pot. Thanks for watching
I have one from home depot for my first plant also and it's the slowest growing and the least cold hardy and the least heat tolerant. I think I should replace it.
Bummer. I tried so hard to get the supplier to fix those labels, but he wouldn’t. They source their cuttings from California farms and Florida farms. FYI 🐉❤️
Hey ! Thanks for the info! Am I missing something, I can go across the street to the beach and just take sand from the beach and put it in pots and use that? Please clear this up for me. How do you feel about the organic cactus palm and citrus mix From Home Depot?
Hi, there is probably salt in your local beach sand. You are better off using washed sand from homedepot or Lowes. Palm and cactus mix has compost. Another option is using sunshine mix #4 or peat moss mixed with sand and pumice.
Get a new 55 gallon blue barrel (if used be sure it wasn't filled with chemicals), it needs to have the top cover in place, cut it exactly in half and you will have two very nice and durable 30 gallon pots. Drill holes on the top lip, pass a sturdy rope through them, tie it and you will have nice handles to move them around. Far better and cheaper than any big pot you can buy.
@@TimHoSDWalter Andersen usually has it for 15. If you have a truck, you can buy a cu yd (27 cu ft) for 125 at San pasual valley soils. Way cheaper at least than 5 a cu ft.
What can I do with my 4 pots that have only foxfarm in there? They are almost 4 year old. The soil has compressed a lot also and needs to be topped off. What can I do or add?? SOS lol
Don't do what Grafting Dragon Fruti recommends. Top dressing with Top Pot is horrible advice. You are better off removing as much soil as possible and then replacing it with something compost free.
