Growing Succulents Without Understanding Soil? An Introduction to Common Succulent Soil Types

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Actually, in the process of growing succulents, soil is quite key, and various soil mix recipes are dazzling. After all, everyone's location is different, and some materials are different too. But what kinds of soil are there for growing succulents? What are the common succulent soils? Follow Succulent Flower Guest to master succulent plants. Today we will explain succulent soil in detail. Growing media will be explained in detail in the next issue, since there are too many growing media.

Garden soil. This term is often seen in various articles. Garden soil is the fertile soil in a vegetable garden or flower garden. This kind of soil is the most common, because garden soil has planting benefits. After screening and removing excess stones and grass roots, it can be used for growing succulents. It is the most common type of succulent soil. Most garden soil is weakly acidic.

Leaf mold, also called humus soil, is the decayed material of fallen leaves in forests. It has good nutrients and physical properties, helps maintain fertility and drainage, is loose in texture, and is weakly acidic. Where conditions allow, you can dig up leaf mold directly in mountain forests that has formed through years of weathering.

Peat soil is a type of soil formed through long-term decomposition of organic matter, such as plant leaves. Places with peat soil may have formerly been swamps or lake areas. Due to long-term water accumulation, dense aquatic vegetation, and under oxygen-deficient conditions, large amounts of incompletely decomposed plant residues accumulate and form a peat-layer soil.

Grass peat soil is a type of peat soil, containing a large amount of water and incompletely decomposed plant residues, humus, and some minerals. However, many succulent lovers now like to burn plants and then use the resulting plant ash mixed with garden soil.

Cultivated soil is a type made by processing plant roots, stems, and leaves and blending them with garden soil in proportion. It has good water retention and nutrients. Cultivated soil made with a proportional formula can be used for cultivating succulents. Many succulent lovers use their own mixed soil for leaf-propagation seedlings to root and keep the seedlings alive.

Sand. Sand is often mentioned in succulent growing. What is referred to here is 2-3 mm sand particles, neutral, with no nutrients at all, but with the function of air permeability and water permeability.

Granular soil. There are too many kinds, and vermiculite and perlite are the most commonly used. They contain special trace elements, and some also contain mineral elements. They increase air permeability and water permeability. For this, a detailed article will be published.

The above are the soils used for succulents. I believe everyone can understand them clearly. Actually, succulent soil is very key. After all, it provides nutrients and is still necessary for succulents. Some friends grow succulents entirely in granules, and that is also possible. Because there are many kinds of granules, Succulent Flower Guest to master succulent plants will have an article explaining granules in detail.

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