perlite

What do you perfer, course , med, fine? I'm going to mix ffof with 25-50 percent perlite. What type do u suggest?

How much do you want to water your plants? I just mix it and not over think it, sometimes not enough if I'm rushin, but I don't have to water as often when I don't put enough in. But too much and water runs right on through...just my 1 cent. Srry, not sure about size. I know 6" usually suffices.

Maman123 said:

What do you perfer, course , med, fine? I'm going to mix ffof with 25-50 percent perlite. What type do u suggest?

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Smaller to medium is what I like

Mine said horticultural but I'm not sure what size it is, I mix in about 20-25%

OP how about those grow pics???

Maman123 said:

What do you perfer, course , med, fine? I'm going to mix ffof with 25-50 percent perlite. What type do u suggest?

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coarse

fine like a sand

you want the perlite to mix well with the soil

keeping the soil bits apart so water can pass thru

good luck

ps clean river sand is better and it don't float !

vostok said:

fine like a sand

you want the perlite to mix well with the soil

keeping the soil bits apart so water can pass thru

good luck

ps clean river sand is better and it don't float !

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vostok said:

fine like a sand

you want the perlite to mix well with the soil

keeping the soil bits apart so water can pass thru

good luck

ps clean river sand is better and it don't float !

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When you say river sand, is it bc it's so coarse like fill sand and not fine like brick sand or play sand or recovered beach sand ( available in the gulf coast areas)

I don't know why it showed your post twice

coarse or british brick sand is best

just avoid any chance of sea salt being in the mix

vostok said:

coarse or british brick sand is best

just avoid any chance of sea salt being in the mix

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Good point about the salt , I would not use fine sand bc of compaction, well maybe a sprinkling ( I've been guilty of that) but not anymore, and the untreated river sand here is contaminated with sewage runoff. Nasty lol

I like to go natural as possible in all my grows

that does mean getting ur shit(pun intended lol) locally

do I get some perlite from Australia( or carbon for my filter?)

or do I use the river sand 3 meters from the guy I buy my soils of off

lol

I'm just now re packing my M_Fungi coffen/hole