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Desert Mix | Premium Cacti & Succulent Potting Mix
£4.99
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FREE tracked delivery on orders over £60
Description
Desert Mix is a peat free potting mix designed for all round use with cacti and succulents. The light and airy substrate allow for maximum drainage with some water retention to ensure good root growth without root rot. It's composed primarily of calcined molar clay, fine bark, sand and pumice.
Desert Mix is ideal for many Pachypodium, Euphorbia, Astrophytum, Echinocereus, and most other cacti and succulent genera.
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Arrived just like the photos - maybe even fuller. Healthy, well-acclimated, and straight into my collection with no issues.
Flawless leaves, stunning variegation, and clearly cared for by experts. It’s already a talking point in my home office.
Hard to find rare plants that are pet-safe. Ours arrived in perfect condition and looks amazing without any worry.
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Rated by real customers
Premium cacti & succulent mix praised for excellent quality and drainage. Customers said "plants are happy" and "thriving" with fast growth and new pups. Some noted oversized pieces require sorting for smaller plants. "Light and free draining" with "no gnats." Great value, though piece size inconsistency affects usability for young succulents.
- Grown much faster than the old mix I used to use. Producing pups which they have not done before.
- Great mix! No gnats in any of the mixes. The best
- Light and free draining. Cacti are flourishing - which is the important bit.
M
Just potted my peyote cactus and elephant ear succulent into this, and it seems perfect! The mix has a great balance of drainage and aeration, plus it looks really nice. I’m sure my plants will thrive in it. Highly recommend!
K
I love this sooo much. Very good for my succulents
C
A lovely looking and smelling light free draining substrate. My Easter Cactus has thrown out loads of new growth as has my Opuntia :heart:️:heart:️:heart:️
C
My Alocacias seem very happy and are throwing out new leaves! My corms are suddenly rooting and shooting too! Very happy!
C
The soil mixture was perfect reported my plants and they seem really happy thankyou
Would definitely recommend it
L
2.5L
Lovely soil, mu plants are happy 😊
I
I have never seen a cactus mix like this before which made me curious to try and my succulents seem to like it, I prefer this over standard cactus / succulent mixes.
S
Looking forward to planting my baby plants up in this mixture
M
It’s very good and promptly delivered.
K
Great mix! No gnats in any of the mixes ive had from grow tropicals. The best
K
Great mix! No gnats in any of the mixes ive had from grow tropicals. The best
C
I haven't used this yet but I am pleased with the amount that I received for the price I paid.
It is great that you can get specific growing mediums for specific plants!
K
Does teh job! plants seem bery happy!
R
Great quality mix!
M
This desert mix seems to have done a treat on my cacti and succulents. They have for the last two months since having brought it grown much faster than the old mix I used to use. And a few have been producing pups which they have not done before.
A
This is a very good mix. I bave been using it for ally succulents and they love it and produce beautiful healthy roots. I recently tested the mix complwtely differently - its composition seemed appropriate for growing pinguicula so I tried a few in it. So far they are doing very well. Of course for pings it needs to be kept moist during growing season. Only time will show if they thrive however.
S
Excellent
T
Excellent quality of mix. Great service and packaging
J
Excellent For repotting
J
My cacti love this soil, would recommend
S
Great quality
N
Mostly an excellent product. Unfortunately it is let down by the size of some of the pieces, which are so big as to make it unusable for the intended purpose. I had to spend quote some time sorting through it picking out the large pieces so that I could use this product to repot my cactus and succulents. Smaller Lithops and any young or newly propagated succulents would be unable to survive with the bigger pieces left in the mix. The rest of the mix is perfect, quite why the giant pieces are included is a mystery to me. Some were more than double the size of the plants I was potting!
N
Mostly an excellent product. Unfortunately it is let down by the size of some of the pieces, which are so big as to make it unusable for the intended purpose. I had to spend quote some time sorting through it picking out the large pieces so that I could use this product to repot my cactus and succulents. Smaller Lithops and any young or newly propagated succulents would be unable to survive with the bigger pieces left in the mix. The rest of the mix is perfect, quite why the giant pieces are included is a mystery to me. Some were more than double the size of the plants I was potting!
Hi Naomi,
I'm really sorry to hear this.
Would you be able to send us a picture of some of the larger pieces in the
potting mix so that we can take a look and offer a resolution here?
N
Good quality soil
A
Used this well draining quality mix on euphorbia, Hawaii palm and cacti. Ideal having a selection to cater for any plant in a collection
L
Great mix for happy cacti and succulents.
P
Always buy my soil mixes , perlite and leca from grow tropicals there amazing an my plants are happy !:smiley:
J
I’ve tried this mix for the first time on my succulents. The quality is just as good as the other varieties I’ve tried.
b
I purchased this item again because I found it ideal when repoting my cacti and succulents.Plus delivery was excellent too.Brian.
Desert Mix | Premium Cacti & Succulent Potting Mix
£4.99