Dear John, I thought I would throw in something that some people in this group may be interested in and it is flyash or qloxinty. This is the bi-product from such industry as iron smeltering and energy production from fossil fuels. I have been using this product in my part of the world with many plants in my collection for about three years and found it to be superiour to anything I have tried on some plants. The growth rates that I have on my collection of worsleya is second to none, that I have seen, since I started using a 50% mix. I am fortunate in that I can purchase it already graded to between 4 and 10mm particles, anyone in my neighbourhood can drop in and see it for themselves. Kind Regards and Best Wishes Ron Redding Hervey Bay Australia >From: "John T Lonsdale" <john@johnlonsdale.net> >Reply-To: john@johnlonsdale.net,Pacific Bulb Society ><pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Subject: Re: [pbs] Perlite substitute? >Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:00:12 -0400 > >I'd love to use pumice, and would have done so a long time back, but we >have >no source within a reasonable distance. I envy those who can get it >locally! > >Best, > >John > >John T Lonsdale PhD >407 Edgewood Drive, >Exton, Pennsylvania 19341, USA > >Home: 610 594 9232 >Cell: 484 678 9856 >Fax: 801 327 1266 > >Visit "Edgewood" - The Lonsdale Garden at http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/ > >USDA Zone 6b > > > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php _________________________________________________________________ realestate.com.au: the biggest address in property http://ninemsn.realestate.com.au/