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Dracaena Fragrans care
Hi, I have a Dracaena Fragrans that was originally overwatered. The leaves started yellowing and then browning and then dying completely. I used a water meter on it and sure enough, although most of the soil seemed dry, the root ball was way too wet. I repotted it; (the roots looked OK, no rot) and then carefully withheld water from it. The water I did use was distilled water, no tap water. Now the remaining leaves are not yellowing or browning, but they look a bit droopy, and there has been no new growth. It has sat in that condition, (no further deterioration, but no new growth) for almost a year! Any suggestions?
For as long as you say, perhaps the plant reached that point when it couldn't be brought back.
Even when plants are given sufficient, or too much water, they might wilt.
Plants can take some wilting without eventual harm, but if not corrected in time, wilting can cause damage associationed with other causes such as too much or too little water; too much heat or light or too little of same.
Try movining the plant to a different location still giving it bright light. The sun is improving day by day and should help whatever the problem is.
The 'fragrans' appreciates moisture...not so much by watering, but by a moisture tray. Misting is another possibility.
You sure cant blame the distilled water--we often speak of dracaena being affected by salts in the water we give.
If wilting was or is a cause, giving water should perk it up within a reasonable time. If the plant though has gone on for a time under this problem, it may never get back to normal.
In repotting, the plant should drain within a reasonable time, the water in the saucer not staying put for longer than 10 or so minutes. As far as drainage, the soil should not be so wetted that it sits at drainage holes but be separated by something between the holes and the roots. Clay shards or stones of size work well.
I have a Dracaena Fragrans I recently bought from a yard sale. The plant is leaning to one side in the potter and leaves are turning yellow and brown with bite holes in it as if something is eating on it. Should I repot and what can I do about the leaves color and holes? what type of temperture should I keep it in? does it require a lot of sun light?
Lisa, when you repotted, how many sizes larger a container did you jump to?
In other words, was size pot was your D. fragrant in originally, and what size container is it in now?
Even though you said its roots looked fine, if potted in too large a container, roots have to fill a pot, 'not root bound,' before growth renews.
Brighter light might help. 'If there's any sun in your location.' Artificial light helps, too..including a lamp.
Come spring, fertilize. I prfer using balanced ferts, like 10-10-10, but any house plant fertilizer will do. Maybe one with a little more Nitrogen will help your Dracaena.
Lord, I just realized this post is a year old!! Sorry. lol.
Regina...let's hope the original poster didn't check the box to receive emails when a new post was added. lol
If your leaves have holes, most likely, something is nibbling away..probably insects.
Don't know your zone, but if it's not too cold outside, take the entire plant out, rid the old soil, clean or get a new pot, and repot so your plant is standing straight.
You also need to ID the culprit chewing leaves. Check on top, bottom and the vase of your Dracaena. Look for white, cottony smudges, brown bumps and webbing.
Also, check soil for insects. Ants, gnats, etc.
After you're finished repotting, hose the entire plant with warm water. If you find a plant insect, you'll need to rid it, but it needs to be Id'd...there's many different house plant bugs. It'll be easier ridding these bugs one they're Id'd. Good luck, Toni
Hi, Regina - sorry to learn your plant is struggling. It's hard to tell whether your plant needs repotting or not, especially without knowing if it is severely root bound or there are other issues associated with a poor soil. The most likely would be excess water retention, leaving your soil saturated for too long a period so roots are rotting or lack of oxygen is affecting root function or metabolism. This can easily be a problem made worse if you happen to be watering too frequently. Plant roots need air as much as they need water, and they need it in abundance to be healthy. They cannot get enough air if the soil is soggy and you water to often.
The other possibility is if you are already aware that too much water is a bad thing and are trying to avoid that by watering in little sips so the soil doesn't get soggy. This solves one problem, but creates another in its place. When you water a little at a time so no water exits the drain hole (your pot does have a drain hole - yes?) all the salts from fertilizer and tap water accumulate in the soil. This salt has the same effect on plants as curing salt has on bacon or ham. It can literally PULL water out of plant cells, so no matter how much you water, plants cannot take it up.
Unless your plant is in such severe decline you're sure death is assured unless you repot now, I would strongly suggest you DO NOT repot at this time. Winter is a poor time to repot because energy levels are so low and low light increases recovery time dramatically. Additionally, we have no real measure of how stressed your plant is, so the suggestion to repot now could easily kill it. It would be better to try to eliminate the possible causes for the decline so you can concentrate on the probables. There are ways to temporarily deal with many issues and help set the plant on the road to recovery, so when summer and the appropriate time to repot rolls around, the plant has enough energy reserves to tolerate the work, and cultural conditions a favorable to a quick recovery.
Before I forget, the very first thing you need to do is eliminate there being a bug infestation. If you can do that, then we can explore other cultural influence like the ones I mentioned and a couple I might not have.
You CAN pot-up at any time (different than repotting), but again, potting up w/o understanding the soil/water relationship can do more harm than good. For instance, if you are already over-watering or the soil is excessively water-retentive and the plant is suffering from impaired root function, potting up when the plant is barely growing is very counterproductive.
I'll also say that it is not so that a plants roots must fill the pot before the plant can grow. If that was the case, we could never plant a seed in a pot and expect it to grow into a plant. When you repot a plant or transplant it, any roots that you damage send chemical messengers to the rest of the plant. These messengers stimulate roots to grow and inhibit top growth somewhat, until the size of the root mass is able to send enough water to the top of the plant to sustain it. This process has nothing to do with the size of the pot or whether it is filled with roots. Further, growth is measured by the increase of plant mass. It doesn't matter if that increase is above or below the ground; root growth is growth just as sure as an increase in the number of leaves a plant has would be, so the statement is in error on multiple fronts.
The plant prefers temperatures around 65-75*. A west window would be nice if you have it. My choice of fertilizer would be something like Foliage-Pro 9-3-6 or Miracle Gro 12-4-8 or 24-8-16. All of these are 3:1:2 ratio fertilizers and supply nutrients in the almost exactly the same ratio in which the plant uses them, which is a big plus. It's getting ahead of ourselves to be discussing fertilizer at this point, though.
There are two ways to approach caring for plants and fixing them when they are broke. One is what we are doing now. Starting a dialog to try to weed out what ISN'T wrong so we can focus on what IS wrong and fix that.
The second approach is to make your best attempt to provide the best cultural conditions you can from the start. This way, the plant remains healthy enough to do its own fighting, leaving you with more time for more plants. This approach starts with your choice of soil, your nutritional supplementation (fertilizer) program, and proper watering technique. If you can get those 3 things right, and offer your plant a spot that is to its liking as far as light/temperature. You've pretty much got it made.
Dear all,
I've read more than ten websites, blogs and forums like this one and all the few people who said something close to my problem seems to have overwatered the plant in the past and also has placed it into a very big pot.
I got two dracaenas at once. The one that is in the small pot is growing even though it had some overwater in the beginning. Now, after a long period with no water at all (two months and it has been very warm here since then), it has recovered and is growing beautiful.
The plant number 2 is almost dead. It has now no more than ten leaves left, the leaves are yellow and wilt, it has already lost two branches and will lose another one soon. I've tried to let it with no water (like plant 1), I switched places with plant 1 (afraid that plant 1 could die, but apparently it's a rock star that will go well anywhere), then I decided water plant 2 a little bit as it seems to be underwatered due to the wilting. The two times I watered it a little bit, with more than 15 days between each time, the plant 2 seemed die a little more.
Nothing seems to recover the plant.
I read that we need to clean the leaves with a wet paper. So I did it yesterday morning and this morning the plant seems completely dead. All the leaves are down.
The trunk seems ok. So I don't know if I should give up and buy a new one or try something different.
I would really appreciate if someone has something to tell me.
This post was edited by Marina_11 on Tue, Dec 30, 14 at 6:47
Yes! It has a hole in the bottom, but the saucer is never wet.
The other is an Anthurium. I water it once a week with 100ml of water, only exactly over its place. The Anthurium is there for two months and it seems to have new flowers growing (very small, they can't be seen in the pic).
So... should I drop the Drac away? Can I use this pot and soil for other plant (maybe another Anthurium)?


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Caedmon's Hymn
Caedmon's Hymn Analysis
Symbols, Imagery, Wordplay
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It's obvious the modern English translation of Caedmon's Hymn doesn't rhyme, but if you look more closely at the Old English original, you'll notice that it doesn't rhyme either. In fact, none of O...
So even though Bede tells us that Caedmon sang this hymn to an angel in a barn, we can't assume that Caedmon and the actual speaker of the poem are the same. Why's that you say? Well, for one thing...
From Bede's detailed backstory, we happen to know exactly where Caedmon was when he first recited this hymn: in a barn with an audience of one extremely powerful angel begging for a song. "I don't...
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It's tough to experience the true sound of Caedmon's Hymn unless you hear it in the original Old English (see "Best of the Web" for some online recordings). A lot of the beauty of the original lies...
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Caedmon wrote a hymn and it's called "Caedmon's Hymn." Sarah writes a hymn and it's called "Sarah's Hymn." So far, so straightforward, right? But only if Sarah also happens to be the author of the...
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It's only nine lines long, but the complex arrangement of Caedmon's (two!) sentences and unexpected compound words like "mind-plans" and "Glory-Father" make this hymn a little tougher than it looks.
Caedmon was no Lady Gaga. According to Bede, "he was never able to compose any vain and idle songs but only such as dealt with religion and were proper for his religious tongue to utter." (Source.)...
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Why do you treat your mountain bike, car and house better than you treat yourself? To mountain bike at your best don't you need to have your body functioning perfectly? I had the pleasure of training and working with our newest BetterRide certified coach Brian Buell this weekend and he made a comment that really resonated with me! We were explaining to our students the importance of taking care of our bodies as mountain biking alone is terrible for us physically (muscles imbalances, tight IT bands, over use injuries, twisting of our legs and core as 99% of us favor a forward foot, etc. (see article, "Is Mountain Biking Wrecking Your Health?" http://wp.me/p49ApH-J9 ) when Brian mentioned something ……
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We really want to help you reach goals, live your riding dreams and ride with much more confidence and control. So, what are your mountain biking dreams, goals and aspirations? We have been fortunate enough to help over 3,000 riders achieve their goals and in 2014 we are interested in helping you.
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While I much prefer writing about all of the positives of mountain biking an unfortunate thing about riding is injury, it will happen. As a mountain biker, snowboarder, skateboarder, dirt biker, cinder block and scrap wood ramp Evel Knievel imitator and BMXer I have had my share of injuries. Now, I'm injured again! I wish had […]
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Quilts Made Modern is a Winner
The photography in this quilt book is visually stunning and many of the quilt designs are gorgeous. The emphasis is on color, hue, and scale. The authors' design principles are fully explained in detail. It is quite evident that the authors are quilting and color theory teachers by the way they explain each step so thoroughly from beginning to end in the quilt-making process. An excellent book for a beginner who is not particularly interested in quilts that look like their granny made them, although as an intermediate-level traditional quilter, I appreciated some of the hints and refreshers in techniques and color theory. Many of the quilt designs intrigue me and some may become my projects at some point. The Design Notes after each quilt pattern and the three additional color variations per quilt further caught my attention. This book is a classic modern jewel. I was so impressed with it that I bought their Transperancy Quilts book afterwards and was not disappointed.
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I wasn't sure if I would like a quilt book as an ereader and I still haven't made anything out of it but I think I'll be ok! As for the book, I liked the contemporary patterns and the ideas were very fresh and new...not for the quilters who like the vintage block patterns! In addition, the tips and suggestions were helpful too, especially for beginner quilters. Happy quilting!
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Safari 7 has been having an odd behavior on my Mac during the last few months. Note that I updated to OS X Mavericks a few months ago, using the Developer preview.
My main concern is that my menus are both in French and English. I want everything in French, but the top bar is in English (File/Edit/View/History/Bookmarks/Window/Help), and when I click on one of those, some options in the menus are in English, and some others are in French. It is very random. For example, the toolbar (under View), has 2 options : the first is in French, "Masquer la barre d'outils" (Hide toolbar), the other is in English (Customize toolbar...).
Safari is the only app on my Mac that is concerned. There seems to be nothing wrong with my Language preferences in the Mac's System Settings.
Now I do have a hypothesis, which could be completely wrong : I suspect the app Clean My Mac 2 to be the culprit. The app is known for sometimes deleting some files which are supposed to be useless to get some space back on the hard drive, particularly languages files.
Anyway, whether my hypothesis right or wrong is, I would love to be able to uninstall Safari before re-installing it, but I don't know if that is possible with Mavericks. As far as I know, Safari 7 itself can't be downloaded from apple.com, it kind of comes in a package with OS X, right? But I don't even want to think about installing OS X 10.9 all over again, just to get that thing right!
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Hatfield transplanter
Has anyone used the Hatfield transplanter found in Johnny's seed catalog? Any personal info on the transplanter would be appreciated. Even if you havn't used one, what is your opinion of the tool? It looks like a back saver to me.
Wow, some things have not advanced much in 50 years. We used something similar when I was a lad to transplant tobacco plants when one died or didn't get mechanically transplanted correctly. But it had a tube to hold water, which the Hatfield doesn't.
Not that many people have been there and done this, but our favorite method was to transplant "in season." A day or two after a rain (depending on how much rain fell) we would use an Army pick - a much smaller version of a pick-axe - to dig a slot in the soil and pull back the dirt. Slide the transplant in and press the soil down with one foot.
I saw one of those old metal tobacco planters on ebay and was impressed with it. I considered buying it but it was rusted out. I'm trying to find something to save my back. Last year I had to lie down and plant my seedlings. Very humiliating. luke
There are some videos on youtube. I have seen a few of them. This one is from Johnny's. From the other videos I've seen. Its important to kind of toss the plants down the tube to keep them from sticking on their way down.
Here is a link that might be useful: Hatfield transplanter


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UConn Women Hold At #3, Behind Baylor, Notre Dame
The top three teams in the AP weekly women's basketball poll held onto their spots this week, with UConn at number three,
UConn Beats No. 17 Notre Dame 65-58
Shabazz Napier scored 19 points, Tyler Olander scored 12 of his career-high 16 points in the second half and Connecticut ended the game with a 7-0 run to beat No. 17 Notre Dame 65-58 Saturday, ending a 12-game winning streak by the Fighting Irish.
ESPN Apologizes For Musburger's Katherine Webb Comments Going 'Too Far'
A day after ESPN cameras lingered on her, announcers piled on compliments and at least one pro athlete made an online pass at her, Twitter was still abuzz Tuesday about former Miss Alabama Katherine Webb, who is dating Crimson Tide championship quarterback AJ McCarron.
Notre Dame Women Shock No. 1 UConn 73-72
Kayla McBride scored 21 points and Skylar Diggins added 19 to help No. 5 Notre Dame upset top-ranked Connecticut 73-72 on Saturday in the Big East conference opener for both teams.
Louisville Picked To Top Big East Basketball; UConn #9
Louisville, which has three starters back from last season's Final Four, is the unanimous choice for first place in the Big East coaches' poll.
UConn-Notre Dame Football At Fenway? It's Under Discussion
Connecticut and Notre Dame are reportedly in negotiations to play a football game at Fenway Park in Boston.
Notre Dame Leaving Big East For ACC
Notre Dame is leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports but football.
Notre Dame Athletic Director Calls New Big East Commissioner "A Great Guy"
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said he is encouraged by the Big East's hiring of Mike Aresco as its new commissioner.
UConn Women 59, Notre Dame 72
Bob Joyce and Kara Wolters with Coach Chris Dailey. And the game's highlights. By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Natalie Novosel scored 21 points and Skylar Diggins added 20 to help No. […]
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The University of Connecticut Huskies remain at #4 in the weekly Associated Press women's college basketball poll. They face #3 Notre Dame tonight. Game time on WTIC NewsTalk 1080 is 8:30.


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Though in the works for a while now, we didn't realize that the Al Pacino-starring, David Mamet-directed Phil Spector biopic had started rolling, but we're glad it has.Read More »
Levinson Talks Prospect Of Helming Mob Epic 'Gotti: Three Generations'For someone who's almost incontestably one of the greatest living American novelists (there will always be naysayers...) Philip Roth has never fared well on the big screen. "Goodbye, Columbus is mostly forgotten, but fairly decent, but "Portnoy's Complaint," "The Human Stain" and "Elegy" (an adaptation of "The Dying Animal") were all disasters of varying degrees, despite excellent source material. But Hollywood ain't done with Roth yet, with news breaking that a veteran director and star, fresh off a recent success together, are joining forces again to adapt a recent work f...Read More »
Well, this is an interesting bit of casting. With Steve Carell busier than ever with "The Office" now in the rearview mirror, the comic actor has had to shed one of the many projects he's been linked to in the past few months. Dude has to eat and sleep sometime. Stepping away as an actor, but remain...Read More »
For director Oliver Stone, "Platoon" would mark the beginning of the meatiest part of the director's career. The Vietnam film, the first in a loose trilogy (followed by "Born On The Fourth Of July" and "Heaven & Earth"), made a star out of its young lead Charlie Sheen, and it went to the Oscars that with year with eight nominations, walking away with four wins including Best Picture and Best Director (not to mention that Stone's other film that year, "Salvador," also earned two nods). It would be Stone's second Oscar (he won for writing "Midnight Express" in 1979) and it established the writer/director as a major voice. But as he tells it now...Read More »
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Ok, we have to admit, the indie gangster biopic "Gotti: Three Generations" always seemed more like an expensive publicity stunt than an actual movie to us, but full respect to Fiore Films, they now have our full attention as there has been some tremendous movement on the picture over the past couple...Read More »
'Silence' Will Shoot Next, Followed By 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'It seems there is a small flurry of activity regarding a few brewing Martin Scorsese projects recently. This morning we reported that Robert De Niro revealed that "The Irishman" was still very much on the docket, though not a certainty ...Read More »
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Cannas still flowering
Some of the Red Stripe are STILL putting out a few sporadic flowers. These did well this year, with the plants getting between 8 to 10 feet tall. Looks like later on this week may be the end of the line, however.
I've dug a few already. Usually I'll wait until the first hard frost kills the tops and then dig them shortly afterwards. Biggest problem is getting them to dry out before storing in peat moss. After a day lying in the sun I still need to put the biggest clumps in front of a fan for another day or so to get them ready to store.
Oh, boy am I lucky in ignornace!
I dug mine up (new growth and blossoms coming up, too!) after the 3rd or so frost.
I haven't found a place to put them inside the garage room yet, so they've been sitting outside in brown paper bags. I guess this is letting them dry?
Do I cut the stalks off? Do I need to actually put them in peat moss, or are the bags really OK? I've heard both.
They grew huge in the 3 months I had them in the ground. I hate to think and need to plan for some pretty darned big plants next year, based upon this, don't I? I loved them, though!
You need to bring them inside so they won't freeze. I keep mine in peat moss but I'm sure they would do fine if you just kept them in bags. Make sure they are dry so they don't rot. Cut the stalks off, also.
I now have a ton of Red Stripe (again) and will be looking to get rid of some in the spring. At a minimum I always get at least three times as much as I plant, and sometimes more.
I put my canna tubers on cookie sheets and leave them for several days on the dining room table, where the hot afternoon sun dries them out. My family does not find it very appetizing while we're eating, but after all these years they're getting fairly used to my strange gardening habits...
Well, watergal, in my opinion it's better than a worm or ant farm. Even though worms don't bother me, there's still something about crawly ants.
I'll dry them out, then, and put them someplace ventilated and cool.
Larry, put me on the list for some of your Red Stripe? I'll have Bengal Tigers, which were just lovely.
Thanks guys, as always!
I finally dug mine up on Saturday - now they're drying out in the basement. I've got salmon-colored City of Portland and a bright yellow one that I can't remember the name of (I have it written down), but I managed to get the tubers mixed up! Oh well, at least the colors go together. I'll probably have some for the spring swap, unless they rot.
This was my first year with Cannas. I got them from the spring VA swap...some red ones. I was really impressed with how well they grew and bloomed with very little care. I did dig them up in Dec and stuck them in the garage...hopefully they are not rotting on me. I was amazed at how much they multiplied. I am pretty sure that I just planted 3 pots in the spring. I divided them when I dug them up and I must have ended up with 20 divisions.
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Suja just emailed me to check in, which reminded me I should post something.
I wanted to tell you not to plan space for the Bengal Tigers. We had a fire December 2nd. The restoration people took everything left in the house, inventoried it and packed it up to be cleaned. I'm afraid they might have thrown my bags of bulbs out, because they even cleaned the garage. Imagine my surprise when they tackled that.
Anyway, I might not have any in the spring.
Christine: Sorry to hear about the fire. I sure hope that nobody was hurt and that the damage is not too extensive.
Back on topic...I was beginning to think that it was a complete waste of time digging up my Cannas, but maybe the recent cold weather make it worthwhile.
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Today I received a phone call from a company called Direct Buy. You can imagine that their website is Direct Buy DOT com. I'm not going to put any links to them because the way they treated me on the phone didn't deserve a link.
I do NOT know if they are honest or reputable, but the phone call definitely put me in the "not going to find out" camp. They may be the best thing since sliced bread.
You see, if their business practices do not honor you or your time, then I would seriously consider that they probably won't honor you in their dealings with you either.
So unless told differently, they are on my NOT RECOMMENDED list.
Here is the deal. They call themselves a buying club – like Sam's ($50/month) or Costco ($50/month). So I said "How much are you monthly and do you have a low price guarantee?" They DO have a low price guarantee, but they would not disclose their fee. They said it was too complex.
What they want is to get me to come up to their office – 45 minutes away – and sit through a sales pitch. I told them they were wasting my time and that I was capable of understanding over the phone.
Then they said that sorry they could not help me and HUNG UP!
I challenge anyone that has had a POSITIVE experience, even better, could clearly show that their fees were easily paid for by their discounts to put a bonafide comment on this article. I'll check you out and IF you are legitimate, I'll ok the comment.
Til then – I'd be very cautious of them.
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Long Term Potting Mix Recipe - Alternative to Gritty Mix
Hi everyone,
I'm a new gardener from Perth, Western Australia whose been lurking on these forums for about a year now. I'm mostly interested in containerised edible gardening. I thought I'd share a recipe for a long term potting mix that I found recently.
I bought quite a few (probably a few too many) dwarf and semi-dwarf fruit trees last year which I put into smaller pots. I'm now ready to repot them in larger containers: some ~50cm diameter glazed ceramic pots and some half wine barrel planters.
But this raises the question - what's the best potting medium for long term use? I've had a look through some threads which outline Al Tapla's Gritty mix but tracking down the ingredients locally is difficult. Also given Perth's Mediterranean climate (hot dry summers, cool wet winters - USDA 10a) and water restrictions during summer which allow reticulation only twice a week I wonder if the gritty mix can hold enough water. I know myself well enough to know I won't regularly hand water.
I found an alternative suggested by local Perth horticultural consultant Peter Coppin. He has three short youtube videos. The first is on the size & type of pots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whp1Kh4R5zw), the second is about the soil/potting mix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzPc5DJuGJc) and the third shows planting & establishment of the new trees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XvmTLO_h9I)
Peter's potting mix -All parts are by volume (not wieght)
Basic Mix
1 part good quality potting mix for organic matter
1 part course sand (e.g. washed river sand, quartz sand, lawn blend) for drainage
2-5kg Bentonite clay per 100L (sodium or calcium bentonite) for water retention
Suggested Additives - per 100L Basic Mix
100-200g Low nitrogen rock dust
600g Zeolite (holds moisture and nutrients)
Optional Extras
1 part Perlite/Vermiculite per 4 parts basic mix to reduce weight
Expanded clay - fill bottom of pot 1 or 2 clay balls deep to hold water
Peter says that this mix should last 10 years if you use a half winebarrel sized container (100L). He suggests hiring a cement mixer to evenly mix all the ingedients. In Australia all the ingredients are redily available. You can buy clumping kitty litter which made from sodium bentonite from Coles. Zeolite you can get from Bunnings as Zeo-Chlor pool filter replacement. Peter uses Ecoprime Natural PK rock dust.
I'd be interested to get everyone's thoughts on this mix or if you've used something similar before. Also how it stacks up to the gritty mix.
Here is a link that might be useful: Peter Coppins Website
This post was edited by arcan on Thu, Aug 14, 14 at 21:46
It's not so much the exact medium recipe that's important... what's important is understanding the CONCEPT behind using such a mix of ingredients. We have to fully grasp WHY such a mix might be wanted, and HOW it works.
The first order of business is understanding why a plant requires medium, or soil, in the first place.
1. The medium offers anchorage and support for the plant.
2. Medium is the catalyst for bringing moisture and nutrition to the plant.
3. Medium serves as the catalyst through which gases and fresh oxygen are exchanged.
The second order of business is understanding that it's next to impossible to match what Mother Nature does in a garden setting with what goes on under the surface of soil within the confines of a smaller container.
Mother Nature has her own army of insects, worms, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, and other microscopic and larger living things all working in harmony to maintain aeration of the soil and break down organic matter into usable food/nutrition for plants to feed on. There's no accurate way to match and maintain that with any true balance within the confined space of a pot. It simply can't be done, especially with regard to any lengthy time frame. Therefore, it makes more sense to approach container growing from a more inorganic aspect... and save the real organic approach for the garden.
It's in understanding why a faster draining, more aerated and inorganic medium is beneficial to container growing, and how it reacts when moisture is added that will be most helpful in choosing ingredients to mix your own mediums.
It's important to know that when we water, we're helping the plant in the exchange of accumulated gases for fresh oxygen. As we water, the motion allows fresh oxygen to enter the medium around the roots, and gases are forced out.
At the link below, Tapla explains in more detail why a medium of larger particled, consistent size that is free-draining and aerated helps in the optimal growth of healthy root systems... which in turn allows for healthy plants.
There's another article floating about the forum, also by Tapla, that explains how to maintain plants, especially trees, in pots for long periods of time. It gets into root pruning and re-potting, which are essential to continued root health within a container environment.
After having used my own version of the Gritty Mix and 511 mediums, specifically tailored to my individual climate, environment and micro-environment, plant type and pot size, location where it will be kept, etc... for several years, now... I can say that understanding the concepts has really helped me in the ability to maintain healthy potted plants.
None of my pots hold too much moisture for long periods of time... they dry rather consistently, allowing for the roots to breathe. They no longer drown in a fine particled mix that can't support pockets of oxygen, and hold perched water tables... all of which is explained in the linked article below.
And by "a more inorganic approach", I mean using medium ingredients that will hold up well and don't break down quickly (or at all)... like fir bark, granite chips, turface, perlite, cherry stone, DE, lava rock, pumice, etc... and feeding plants using a liquid fertilizer and micro-nutrients, as opposed to some organic mixture that may not be in usable form for a plant's uptake.
Reading Tapla's articles is a great place to start... because understanding the concepts is the most important part.
A "green thumb" is nothing more than applied knowledge.
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Hi Jodik thanks for your reply.
I have read those threads by tapla a few months back and I will read through them again; they put forward a strong case for inorganic container gardening.
What I like about the gritty mix is that it's so light weight due to all those big particles giving space for air. But I'm trying to strike a balance: enough drainage and enough water holding capability. No hand watering, no frequent repotting.
I do understand that good drainage is a must in order to prevent root rot and provide gas exchange. The question I have though is can gritty mix be modified so that it is suitable for twice weekly waterings in typical Perth summer temperatures of 35 C (95 F)?
I'm after what's great for the the gardener and good (not to say best) for the plant. I wonder whether Peter's mix might not suite the needs of a lazy gardener better than Al's?
I live in Adelaide and have been using gritty mix for nearly 3 years. It has no problems with water retention. Last summer was hotter than average with two days at 45C. Usually I was watering twice a week , rarely three times.
I either use Turface in the mix ( buy from Melbourne) or the Aussie made Kleensorb diatomite.
I don't want to sound too negative but make the following comments-
"good quality potting mix" -This is a misnomer as most are junk especially for long term plantings. If you can get the March 2013 edition of Burkes Backyard magazine there is some interesting reading.
Kitty litters are a minefield. Suggest you do a small test run first.
Not sure of pool zeolite is suitable for plants. I use a dedicated horticultural grade of zeolite in my other mixes.
Bonsai shops and clubs are often a good source of materials
Hi Alan,
It's great to get a response from someone who gardens in a similar climate - sounds like you had to endure a scorching summer last year! To be honest I was sceptical that the gritty mix would be suitable for our climates but now I'm intrigued. What does your version of the gritty mix consist of exactly? How does the gritty mix compared to other medium's that you've used? How often do you fertilise? Is it possible to use a controlled release fertilizer or do all the granules fall to the bottom?
And you don't have to tell me about the quality of potting mixes; I've definitely been burned in the past. I already have some Debco Raised bed mix though which I've found to be of fair quality so I think I'll still mix up a batch of Peter's mix but I might experiment with the gritty mix down the track to see how they compare.
As for the Coles brand clumping kitty litter - that was recommended to me at a GardenWise seminar by the Beyond gardens experts (www.beyondgardens.com.au). It's the cheapest available but other types have finer particles which are considered faster acting. The Zeo-chlor is also 100% zeolite and recommended at numerous places around the net.
Here is a link that might be useful: Debco Raised Bed Mix
This post was edited by arcan on Tue, Aug 12, 14 at 7:45
Hi Arcan
The plants I grow tend to need good drainage so they really appreciate a durable open mix like gritty compared to the bagged mixes I used before. The roots look so much healthier.
I have used Osmocote controlled release with success and also liquid fertiliser at recommended doses.
One trick I have learnt for plants in full sun is to have them in white or pale coloured pots -- heaps cooler than black pots.
I just watched Peter Coppins videos from your link, I agree with most of what he says. However the "drainage layer" at the base of the pot is not good - read what Tapla has to say about them .
Yes, Alan - that's why I didn't include that part of the video in my original post. I've included a link to an article that makes just this point about crocking.
I wonder if having a small layer of expanded clay would also cause this problem?
On another note: where do you source all the ingredients for the gritty mix? When I looked some months ago I found every ingredient but never in quite the right sizes.
Here is a link that might be useful: Rocks in pots? What a crock!
The grittier mediums allow for more frequent watering... in other words, allow for a wider margin of error, considering that most potted plants in general are killed by a heavy hand when it comes to watering.
I always water "as needed", and never on a specific schedule. I check individual pots for moisture content, only adding moisture where it's needed. The reason I do this is because each individual plant will use moisture at a slightly different rate, the medium within the pots drying at different times. It depends on the type of plant, the size of the plant, size of the pot, location of the pot, etc...
In my estimation, the grittier mediums are not really tailored for convenience... they're tailored for the health of plants. I'm not sure I would want to compromise when it came to my plants.
Good luck, though... I hope you can find what you're trying to achieve.
I understand where you're coming from Jodik. You must get great results using your fine-grained approach but as you say I want to try something more laidback.
I use adjustable drip irrigation so I can adjust the amount of water each of my pots get - I do this seasonally and I don't water at all in winter unless there's been a long dry patch.
In another thead Al suggested increasing the water retention of gritty mix by using 4 diatomite, 3 bark, 2 grit.
Now I just bought a 100L bag of coarse perlite and I found where to get diatomite and small pine bark. As diatomite holds more water than turface and perlite holds more water than grit, I figure a strait 1:1:1 mix of diatomite, perlite and pine would probably hold enough water. If not I could maybe add more diatomite.
Arcan : I have been experimenting with various combinations of soils and I agree that a 1-1-1 soil mix of pine bark, diatomaceous earth (DE), and perlite will hold a significant amount of moisture. In my very unscientific testing I've also used a 1-1 mix of pine bark and DE. That mix holds a lot of moisture, which would be good for very hot and dry areas.
Hope that helps.
Interesting discussion.
I hope you will keep coming back here and not go offline for too much of the exchange, since discussion of moisture retention is very, very relevant to lots of us. I am in LA and it's a problem. We are having water restrictions too.
Well with my very limited experiment on this I will say that a mix of bark and either Turface or DE will hold a good amount of moisture. The more Turface/DE the greater moisture retention. I can say that my spruce tree seedlings growing in a bark/DE mix are doing very well this year however they use much less water than a tomato plant for example.
This does not mean that all types of plants will do well in this mix so I can't recommend it. As I mentioned before this is a very unscientific test on my part. If you are curious about trying a couple of plants in this mix feel free to experiment. It might help some plants in very hot and dry locations.
Thanks TYG - theory is one thing but its good to know that its seems to be working in practise too.
@Needs2SeeGreen - I mixed up a large amount of Peter's Mix maybe 500-600L on the weekend. It was very hard work even with a cement mixer (the sand weighs a ton); would have been impossible without one. So far I've potted up a double-grafted Mini Royal-Royal Lee cherry tree, a maltese blood orange and a meyer lemon. The cherry and lemon trees were root bound and needed a fair amount of root pruning.
I'm going away on holidays for for the next three weeks but I'll let you know how they're doing when I get back.
I experimented with DE this year and find it to be an extremely useful amendment. It really holds the water, and the pore size is big enough plants can utilize the stored water pulling it out themselves. Unlike turface which pore size is so small the roots cannot access it.
DE pore size is .36 microns turface is .045. Less energy is needed to release water from DE. Pore size is 8 times larger in DE! Turface can hold 95% of it's weight in water. DE can hold 145%,
The numbers speak for themselves. Source of info is the Axis company.
Some interesting comments here. I have been growing trees in large pots for nearly 30 years and have tried all the different suggestions. My videos were produced to show what I'm doing now.
Please be wary of information saying putting rocks/gravel in the bottom causes drainage problems. Yes, using just standard putting mixes (which are only short-term growing mediums) over a layer of rock or gravel, you may well get a 'perched water table'. But even with these crappy growing mediums, you must ask yourself "if I have a perched water table could that mean I'm watering too much?" - you don't have to be an Einstein to work that out.
You DON"T need water to drain out of pots - if that's happening then it's a total waste of the world's most precious resource. You want to be able to give potted plants just the amount of water they need to reasonably perform/produce. Period.
This is one of the reasons I put a layer of expanded clay in between. My trees are performing well with just 10-15mm of water per week, and this is in the middle of rainless 35-40 degree C weather with hot dry winds thrown in!
Cheers, Peter Coppin
Here is a post from the Garden Professors thst shows whst happens when you have a layer of fine media over a layer of coarse media. Notice the water stops at the coarse layer and moves horizontally until the perched water table is created and then moves into the coarse material. If you put a coarse layer of gravel at the bottom of the pot amd you use a mix that can support a perched water table, the gravel layer will move the perched water table to a higher elevation in the pot than it would have been had the gravel not been there. Now if you have a study showing otherwise Peter, I would love to see it.
Container Planting: intuition vs reality
I'm not saying you don't get perched water tables when gravel is put underneath standard putting mixes (especially if there are insufficient drain holes or, worst still, none). I'm actually saying two different things:
1. We need to appraise the use of standard potting mixes as a long-term growing medium, because they aren't designed for it. That's why I've developed my own over three decades with the addition of both clay and zeolite being absolutely necessary to hold moisture.
2. Too much precious water is wasted on pot plants. As I said, my advanced trees do quite well on 10-15mm a week in a hot, windy area, where I know a lot of people who use 30-50mm! It's a matter of careful moisture monitoring, though that's often easier said than done. This is why I put a layer of expanded clay between the gravel and my soil mix - it absorbs excess moisture (when that occurs), and plant roots get down into that layer and can utilise it.
As in the link Nil used (good link - I 'borrowed' the picture), I think this is a case of someone's intuition telling them something that in reality doesn't happen.
Most of us are focused on making it EASY for others to consistently bring along healthy plant material because that is their focus. Once your priorities change and you're bound to those priorities, you self-limit your options. There is nothing wrong with focusing on saving water, but we all need to individually make the decision about the cost of our focus as it relates to the well being of our plants.
I see issues inherent in the plan described above, but can't offer a criticism as long as the focus is saving water. If the focus is on plant vitality, I see 2 substrate interfaces where perching is going to occur unless the expanded clay > .100 inch (.254mm) in which case there will only be perched water above 1 substrate interface.
this is J0 just found you.Ireallyreally realy like everything on your blog.Im From Tx.and I dont know about all that stuff that goes in your grit mix.I THINK I know but not sure.Can you explain those ingredeance for me.As I have been looking for good soil for containers.MG is no good any more.Please help.
Jo - it's probably not a good idea to piggyback on Arcan's thread, but you can find a lot of info and get all your questions asked by clicking this embedded link and asking there.
Don't be disheartened and don't worry. All's well & I'm not scolding you. Everyone here wants to help you succeed. Normally, if you have questions, you would join in on a thread that is already discussing the topic you're interested in or start a new thread. If you click on the link I left in my post above, it will take you to a discussion already in progress on the topic you asked about, or for a wider variety of opinions, you could start your own thread. First, try clicking the link in my post above. It will take you to one of my threads. That's more polite than us starting a conversation in the middle of Arcan's thread. See you there!! ;-)
Nil, I've never had salt accumulation problems with the mix I now use, but to be honest I've never tested salt levels as I've not seen any visual symptoms to be concerned (maybe I should anyway).
But I don't use water-soluble fertilisers - my base fertiliser is a good rock (basalt) based product with a relatively low N%, and an organic liquid product is used if growth needs to be boosted.


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