Ponytail palm dividing. What type of soil?
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:07 am
Hello I bought a ponytail palm with 7 plants in one pot so I wanted to divide them. I pulled it out of pot , separated roots carefully, using a 4 inch clay pot with drainage hole I put rock in bottom that I had washed and bleached. I then put plant and soil in pot. My question is I used a tropical soil mix from local nursery, I was then reading on the internet that I should have maybe used cactus mix or half cactus and half potting mix. The tropical mix soil bag does not list what is in it.
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