03/09/2020
Now marked down to Php 50.00 per kilogram
Pumice is back na mga suki 20 sacks pa lang una nga batch. First come first serve lang ta ha... Ga retail mi kung pick-apon dari sa balay.
Find out why succulent growers and collectors amend garden soil and potting mixes with crushed lava rock. Ensure your succulents don't rot by adding pumice to the soil.
No other soil amendment is as widely used by succulent growers and collectors as pumice (crushed lava rock). Here’s why.
— Pumice enhances drainage in garden beds.
— It absorbs excess moisture (is used for that purpose in horse stalls) so roots don’t rot in wet weather.
— It’s a natural, unprocessed organic product that comes from mines.
— It holds onto moisture. Although pumice may appear bone dry, compared to composted pine bark—a major component of bagged potting soils—it retains moisture up to 48 hours (in cool weather). Bark holds moisture about half as long.
— It releases moisture slowly, and at a steady rate.
— Tiny pores on the surface act as microscopic reservoirs to store moisture and nutrients.
— It helps to aerate the soil. (Plant roots need oxygen.)
— Depending on the mine it comes from, pumice may enrich soil with 70 or more beneficial trace minerals.
— It doesn’t decompose, rot or blow away.
How to use pumice in your garden:
— For succulents and other plants that can’t sit in wet soil, improve drainage by amending beds with a mix of 25% garden soil, 25% pumice, 25% compost and 25% sharp (large-grain) sand such as decomposed granite.
— Plant cactus and cactus-like plants that store moisture and that are exceptionally prone to rotting (such as fat euphorbias) in berms amended 50% with pumice. If amending the soil in a garden bed isn’t an option, fill the planting hole with pumice so roots are surrounded by it, and so the crown of the plant doesn’t touch soil.
— Use pumice as a topdressing to absorb rainwater that puddles around plants. For succulents and other plants endangered by soft, soggy soil, use a metal bar or broom handle to circle the plant with vertical tunnels (air holes) several feet deep. Space them 12-18 inches apart and about that far from the base of the plant. (The goal is to add pumice to the soil but not to damage roots.) Widen the openings at soil level a bit to make it easier to funnel pumice into them.
How to use pumice in pots:
It depends on the needs of individual plants, but for most succulents, simply mix half-and-half pumice with any inexpensive, bagged potting soil. For fine leaved succulents, I mix 40 percent pumice with 60 percent potting soil; for cacti and rotund euphorbias, the reverse (60 percent pumice and 40 percent potting soil). Growers often start rot-prone cuttings and offsets in pure pumice.
Retail Price - Php 60.00 / kg.
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