Hello
I wanted to create a topic where users could post the recipes for citrus growing media that they are using or have heard of. I'm still experimenting, as I can't find CHC here and I'm unwilling to bareroot completely any of my citrus plants
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Most of my plants grow in, with OK results:
1 part peat moss
1 part pine bark + some perlite.
Here's another recipe, given at a Portuguese citrus nursery website:
9 parts coarse peat (not sure exactly what that even is)
1 part sharp sand
(If I were able to detect coarse peat I would also add some perlite...)
I've also tried a readily made citrus, cactus, palm medium by "Schultz" (made in the USA), one of my Calamondins actually grows in it right now. I would buy it again, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find it in the store that I had bought it in previously. It consists of perlite, bark, peat moss. The package looks like this:
I'm thinking of repotting a newly acquired Meyer lemon into something like this:
1 part perlite;
1 part pine bark;
2 parts peat moss;
I'm also thinking of adding some sand (maybe 1 part). Is that a good thing in a citrus substrate?
I'm not afraid to use this much peat moss, because my plants are not put outside, so they won't get overwatered by rain. I also believe that I have my watering under control. I also repot my plants every single year, so the medium staying fresh as long as possible is not my main goal...
