well drained growing media
James Frelichowski (Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:36:56 PDT)

A pot that is taller than wide helps the drainage tremendously.  I have used a mix with hydroton/hydrokorrel/lecca clay or whatever it is called these days and the Hippeastrums did well.  I just happened to have access to a lot of leftover from someone's research but it is not too expensive for just a handful of plants.

James Frelichowski
College Station, TX

--- On Wed, 10/7/09, robertwerra@pacific.net <robertwerra@pacific.net> wrote:

From: robertwerra@pacific.net <robertwerra@pacific.net>
Subject: [pbs] well drained growing media
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: "Robert J Werra" <robertwerra@pacific.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:57 PM

I used gray lava rock in pots of moraeas one year and the did terrible compared to non lava. What about granite instead. Where can it be easily obtained. Thanks,   Bob