OK heres the story which actually kind of links into some of the other posts I have made on here but originally I used the very last of my perlite only to find out (when my PH meter arrived) that the soil was 8+, this of course left me with no choice at the time but to swap to the other bag of soil I had (PH 7) but I did not have any perlite left only some vermiculite.
I added about 20%-30% verm to my soil, I cannot afford to transplant again and in fact my main plant seemed to love it and is flourishing, I know perlite is the much better option but surely vermiculite will be OK in these circumstances as it does aerate the soil and I know it retains moisture a lot more then perlite but if I watch how much/often I am watering surely this mix will be OK???
Believe me if I thought my babies could take another transplant I would do it but I really don't so guess I'm kinda stuck with this soil mix however I think I may be thinking things are worse then they really are. I spent over an hour tonight searching for posts on all forums for people who have used just soil/vermiculite and there seems to be very few
I added about 20%-30% verm to my soil, I cannot afford to transplant again and in fact my main plant seemed to love it and is flourishing, I know perlite is the much better option but surely vermiculite will be OK in these circumstances as it does aerate the soil and I know it retains moisture a lot more then perlite but if I watch how much/often I am watering surely this mix will be OK???
Believe me if I thought my babies could take another transplant I would do it but I really don't so guess I'm kinda stuck with this soil mix however I think I may be thinking things are worse then they really are. I spent over an hour tonight searching for posts on all forums for people who have used just soil/vermiculite and there seems to be very few
