ShibbyFox wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 5:04 am
...But I didn't want it to die from lack of sunlight and moss strangulation so I decided to repot it in the standing water method with the pearlite peat moss 3:1 combo. And since I wa....
ShibbyFox wrote:Well it's a 3:1 combo of peat moss and perlite and I use distilled water only. I'm not sure what could've thrown the ph off. What's lfsm?
Ok, I thought it was a 3:1 perlite/peat moss mixture. I agree with Panman that it could be too wet. More perlite means less moist, more draining...more peat moss means wetter conditions.
Rinse your peat or LFSM. Pour some distilled water or rain water over the moss, stirring it good. Then knead it like you would biscuit dough, squeeze the dirty water out. Repeat a time or two. I don't rinse LFSM as much as I do peat. Rinse the perlite, also. It might look all white and clean but you will find it creates a milky water. The perlite processors use water to keep dust down when they're processing perlite...they use whatever water is available...salty water, dirty water, basically anything to keep the dust down. To make it easier on you you might want to buy a pack of paint strainer filter bags at Lowes or some other hardware store...they are made to fit inside 5-gallon buckets for painters to strain paint through when using sprayers to paint with. It helps to contain the peat and perlite while you rinse it. You probably get a better rinse of the peat moss without one but for the perlite I find they do very nicely as the perlite can get really messy.
https://www.amazon.com/5-gallon-paint-s ... t+strainer
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