What is a master succulent soil mix? This is a general soil mixture I use for different
species of succulents. All these plants are grown in my Master succulent soil mix.
Hello there, my name is Liz.
A self-confessed succulent addict.
Welcome to my channel Growing Succulents with LizK.
One of the biggest problems in growing succulents I find, starts from the soil mix. So it's important
to have a well-draining mix. I find that most of the commercial succulent potting mix
I've used are either dries up quickly or it's too much water that the succulents dies from root rot.
Apart from being cheaper you can vary the mixture to suit a variety of different types of succulents;
as different succulents require different mixtures some like being watered often,
while others prefer to be watered less. This video is a short version of a detailed video
on how I make my Master succulent soil mix. If you want to watch that video and
find out why i use the soil mixture there's a link below this video in the description box
of that detailed video on how i make my master succulent soil mix. So let's begin.
Add some hot water. This is now left overnight. This is the consistency I'd like to have.
Decompose granite.
So these are my soil mix. Two parts potting mix. one part compost. one part coconut coir or coconut peat.
one part decomposed granite or crushed granite and some fertilizer. and this is mainly what i use for
my succulent Master mix. It's basically composted seaweed, fish, manure. This is the first step.
I'm going to take the two potting mix and one part compost and I'm going to sieve it. We'll sieve it...
So I'm going to take the one part coconut coir put it in and my decomposed granite or crushed granite.
What I like to do with this one is also sieve it. So I'm just gonna quickly sieve this one. okay.
There you go.
And we throw the granite in.
And for the piece de resistance,
or our fertilizer... For this amount,
I only like to use say about a handful. That's a handful. Don't put too much fertilizer and mix that all in.
And once that's all mixed up you'll come up with the same soil mix. So this is my soil mix.
And this is now the stuff that we mixed up. So it's basically the same except that one is much drier.
And there you go. I like to just jiggle it all up there hopefully you can see this you get the idea.
okay so normally once you pot that up, because it's got such shallow roots it's going to be
wonky so what I like to do. I'll put it around the plant do this close up and I'll just put a pot.
Cover that plant. I put my top dressing. Take it off. Squeeze that all in there.
so okay so all those sturdy bits there i just puff it up squeeze squeeze squeeze blow blow blow
and water it in about a week's time
and this is now the same plant a few months later
keep an eye for future videos of my different succulent soil mixtures
propagating soil mixture is what i use for leaf propagated succulents and once they're a little
bit grown they can graduate into the intermediate soil mix the soil mix will make them grow fast to
get them ready into becoming a full-grown succulent ready for the advanced soil mix
this is the soil mix i use to make them grow with form and color if you like this video
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