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Hot take: the fancy potting mixes aren't always better than the cheap stuff
I was at a nursery in Eugene last spring and the owner told me he mixes his own soil with sand from a local quarry and gets better results than any of the store-bought brands for his succulents, so which side do you land on for cactus mix - do you dump $18 on the designer bag or grab the $5 bag from the big box and adjust with perlite?
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gonzalez.reese16d ago
My buddy in Portland has a similar setup with his houseplants where he just grabs the cheapest cactus soil from Fred Meyer and mixes in crushed lava rock from his driveway. He swears by it and his succulents look better than mine and I'm the one who actually pays for the expensive stuff. Funny enough, I tried the same thing with my jade plant last winter and it got all weird and mushy, so I think there's a fine line between cheap and too cheap. The quarry sand thing makes me nervous though, because I heard some sand has salt in it that'll kill your plants slow. But honestly, if it works for that nursery owner in Eugene then who am I to argue, right?
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