Joel_BC
Super Self-Sufficient
I enjoy having house plants around... almost (or sort of) "fun" - so I'm posting here in this subforum. 
House plants are a way of bringing life into the home in a region where we get four months of winter (and maybe just six months of actual outdoor gardening). I was so gung-ho about organic gardening approaches for a lot of years that I tried to grow house plants in garden-type soil. Worked miserably! Even with a "wick out the moisture" unglazed clay pot, there was too little drainage, too little oxygen getting to the roots.
Here's my "soil-less mix": 40% coir, 40% ground bark, 20% perlite. Add just a little calcium carbonate powder (or gypsum) for soil calcium. Stir well.
Put your plant into this mix in a clay pot. Then deeply water every four days with some liquid that may occasionally have some nutrient content in it. Works for a wide range of plants. Of course, the 'every four days' may be too often for some plants, too infrequent for others - but I find it to be generally about right. In a really humid or really arid climatic zone, conditions in your house could be different, which would also need to be taken into consideration.
House plants are a way of bringing life into the home in a region where we get four months of winter (and maybe just six months of actual outdoor gardening). I was so gung-ho about organic gardening approaches for a lot of years that I tried to grow house plants in garden-type soil. Worked miserably! Even with a "wick out the moisture" unglazed clay pot, there was too little drainage, too little oxygen getting to the roots.
Here's my "soil-less mix": 40% coir, 40% ground bark, 20% perlite. Add just a little calcium carbonate powder (or gypsum) for soil calcium. Stir well.
Put your plant into this mix in a clay pot. Then deeply water every four days with some liquid that may occasionally have some nutrient content in it. Works for a wide range of plants. Of course, the 'every four days' may be too often for some plants, too infrequent for others - but I find it to be generally about right. In a really humid or really arid climatic zone, conditions in your house could be different, which would also need to be taken into consideration.
