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The first Indoor Potting Soil Mix you need to get

The first Indoor Potting Soil Mix you need to get

by | Jul 16, 2020 | Plant Parenting 101, Soil

Like, you, I took planting quite seriously, pretty quickly. I wanted to give them the best possible conditions by buying them some nice bed of soil to live on.

So, i went online, searched through all these articles, watched all the videos from Planterina – and studied them. Looked out for these keywords – Peat Moss, Perlite, soil, aeration, etc.

I then bought this potting soil from Far East Flora, because I thought, it does say “Peat” “for indoor plants”.

Peats All Purpose is a general-purpose organic potting mix. It contains mineral and fertiliser additives. Suitable for indoor and outdoor plants.

Peats All Purpose Potting Mix

LOL. I laugh because, i also bought 25L of it. It was a huge bag!

So when, it arrived, i was like, great, now i have this soil, i just need some perlites, and i’ll get the rest of the stuff later.

I was wrong! I think i managed to kill a couple of plants as this soil wasn’t very airy. It needed much more mix of substrates to make it airy and it gave me a couple of Root Rots šŸ™

My point is, if you’re a newbie in this plant thing, don’t be a hero and buy your own soil, just get these potting mixes from these awesome people below to start your plant parenting.

Indoor Potting Soil Mix in Singapore

Little Botany Soil Mix

Soil Contains: Perlite, coco peat, potting soil and little bit of magic.

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Thieves Potting Mix

Soil Contains: potting soil, unexpanded perlite, rice husk, pumice & more

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Pine.sg General Potting Mix

Soil Contains: Perlite, rice husk, potting soil, pumice. 

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TERRASCAPES FOLIAGE PLANT POTTING MIX

Soil Contains: cocopeat, pumice, volcanic sand, burnt earth, rice husk

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*You can get it at Terrascapes or The Flora Chapter

Growing Magic Indoor Magic Mix

Soil Contains: Burnt rice husks, Worm castings, Coco chips, Pumice

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Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Of course, once you’re an expert, you can go ahead and buy and mix your own!

Good Luck Plant Parents!

So you want to be a plant parent?

So you want to be a plant parent?

by | Jun 28, 2020 | Jungle, Plant Parenting 101

Have you ever saw one of these posts and thought, hey, thatā€™s not too bad!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ZiC7yFr-e/

It says ā€œimpossible to killā€, you thought you can spruce up your home with this cute little plant. The nice little shopkeeper said, just water it once every week.

You bring it home and you water it, every week as per told. One week past, itā€™s looking pretty in your bookshelf. Week 2 comes along and you see it wilting!

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Sounds familiar?

Well, thatā€™s what happened to me too! I fell in love with foliageā€™s when I started buying some weekly cut flowers. Iā€™d get a cut Monstera leaf and it would last forever in my jar. I love how it made my home look.

A trip to Ikea later, I bought a few ā€œimpossible to killā€ & ā€œneeds not much sunlightā€ plants (Snake Plant/Sanseveria & Money Plant/Pothos). Brought it home and it was thriving for a while, till it did not! Leaves started turning brown. It looked so wilted.

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I was devastated.

Slowly but surely, I started buying more plants at home. This time, I experimented with soil, water, fertilizer and other conditions that make a healthy, happy plant.

It was still a rocky road to owning a thriving urban jungle, but Iā€™ll be here to share all my tips to not be me, and be a plant noob!

Follow my next few posts as I lay down the basics for plant parenting. What youā€™d need to know before buying that first potted plant for your urban jungle!

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