Seed soil mix for cacti and succulents
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2020
- This video describes our seed sowing mixture for germinating cacti and succulent seeds at Mesa Garden.
4 main ingredients of our soil:
1 part perlite
1 part vermiculite
2 parts sandy loam
2 parts coco (coconut) blend
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Excellent , I purchase all my seeds from Mesa Garden. Excellent service , fast delivery, packaging is outstanding. The Quality of their seed is always Fantastic, with good germination rates.
we love what you do, greetings from Poland from polish cacti growers :-)
Greetings to you Victor! Thanks for the comment!!
Hi! I have to many cacti from MG seeds, more then 20 years! Wonderfull plants! You is the best of the best in World!!! Good luck! From Russia. :))))
Great episode😊🤲💖I enjoyed watching
Wow ! You’re lucky to have the sandy loam right on your property. It looks perfect for succulents. Nice video! Thank you . Gonna do mine indoors under my grow lights . I’m in TN . Colder winters.
This is fantastic! Thank you, can't wait for more vids.
Thank you guy
Thank you for sharing. Love shopping on your website and this is quite helpful
Learnt so much from this video! Wish you would post a lot more 😊
That was great! Thanks 😁👍
Love your video. Please do more
Muchas gracias Aaron por sus consejos , saludos desde Colombia.Espero algún día pueda venir a nuestro país después de la pandemia de Covid-19.
I ordered some Echinocereus rigidissimus (250.79) from you guys, sowed my seeds, and then I saw white, fuzzy mold starting to grow on the surface on the soil! I’m so distraught and sad. I used some seed sowing mix that had peat moss, coco coir, and perlite; I added some cement sand. Then I put the seed pot into baggies and zipped them shut. I have no idea where the mold came from. I put cinnamon on top to see if that will kill the white fuzz. I may have to order more seeds from you guys and try your soil mix. I’ll have to microwave it to sterilize, just to be safe. 😞😞😞. Stupid mold.
On a lighter note, the Melocactus Broadwayi seeds I ordered from you guys are growing beautifully! Can’t wait till they get bigger!
So sorry about the mold! It’s definitely a good idea to sterilize your soil before sowing. We are glad to hear that your Melocactus are doing well though 👍
Nice vid! Thanks for sharing! Got a question. Where I live there are many natural deposits of pumice, can I use pumice sand and pumice sifted as replacement of sandy loam?
You can use pumice as a replacement for perlite. I'm not sure if it would be a good replacement for sandy loam. Check out this article, maybe it will help you find sandy loam in your area: homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-sandy-loam-soil-50765.html
Should be wearing a mask with all that dust.
That's so good to have a sandy loam as a soil base, I would like to have stuff like that myself. Instead I just use mix of finely crushed rocks and it works just fine.
As for vermiculite, it's not really acidic, just neutral. What it's good at, it has very high cation exchange capacity, which means it can adsorb nutrients cations on it's surface to prevent leaching out of the soil while heavy watering.
I just wonder how do you keep your seedling in the arid climate. Do you use covers to keep high air humidity or just keep the soil moist all the time?
Thanks for the clarification. It’s great what we can learn from each other on this platform 👍
We keep our pots in a humidity dome until they sprout.
What soil mix do you use for something similar to lophophora?
What would you recommend changing for Ohio, where its quite humid & hot in the summer? I just ordered some new seeds & a few plants and want to make sure I've got the best chance at them surviving. Last time everything germinated but died after a few weeks due to using the wrong soil & overwatering.
Please send us an email to mesagarden.plants@com we’ll get something figured out for you. Thanks 😊
What about watering? You sow seeds in dry mix?
Do you sterilize your soil before sowing seeds? I'm in the northeast, so it's much more humid than where you are. I have some 2 year old lithops and dinteranthus seedlings that came from your seeds 😊 and I did sterilize the soil mix in the oven before sowing.
We don’t sterilize our soil since it’s so dry here but if we were in a more humid climate I’m sure we would.
What do you suggest for those of us on the East coast? We don’t have access to sandy loam (we have compacted red clay 😅)
Sandy loam has approximately 60% sand in it. You may be able to mix regular garden sand with your current soil to make the loam.
If I lived on the east coast I would use turface (70%) and coconut coir (25%) and maybe add some garden sand to that (5%).
@@mesagarden2285 Is this what you would recommend as a replacement to Sandy Loam or as the entire mix?
What is the ambient temperature when you sow seeds? It had been very hot here in SoCal (100° and up) and I think it may be affecting my germination rates, as I leave my seeds in their pots outside on the patio outside of direct sun.
Should I bring them inside? My home is around 80° most of the time.
It really depends on what you are trying to germinate. For more information look here: mesagarden.com/cultivation-codes-and-sowing-conditions-and-times
Aaron Morerod Great resource, thank you so much. I’ll follow these guidelines.
Thank you! Question: There seems to be very little organic matter in your germination mix. Why is that not a problem?
Rab Arber if you have ever seen the plants growing in nature you can see they don’t require much organic material. They grow in sandy or decomposed granite conditions. Here at Mesa we try to grow our plants like they would grow in nature, this makes the plants grow slowly but also stronger.
You don't need to worry, to be honest, it's already a pretty high organic content. Coco mix + some organic matter from local soil is about 35% a mix.
In nature cacti rarely have a luxury of getting 5% of organic matter in the soil, not even mention 35%.
Even 10% is an absolutely sufficient amount for vast majority of cacti species, regardless of their age. Adding them higher organic content than that is not a necessity, but a luxury they cannot experience in nature, but can experience in cultivation.
Do you use fungicide?
Rarely, it's so dry here in the southwest that fungus isn't much of a problem.
Can I be a squatter? Please. I'll take care of the mesembs 😘: 1 seed for me, 10 for MG 🤣
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