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Repotting mesembs and other plants into gritty-type mix

breton2
9 years ago

I'm trying to get up the nerve to repot some mesembs into the gritty-type mix I've started using for my jades and aloes. It is about 1:1:1 Turface/turkey grit/lean garden soil. The jades and Aloes did extremely well in it this season. The plants i want to repot are in a mix of Schulz C& S soil perlite, and small gravel, and have not repotted in 5 or 6 years ( wow, time is flying!)

The mesembs I need to repot are:
Titanopsis calcarea
Corpuscularia lehmanni (not worried about this one)
Aloinopsis schoonesii
Gibbaeum heathii
and various Conophytums

Does this sound like a decent mix for these species? I put a Lithops into this mix last summer and it split on me, though it was in very humid warm conditions at the time...

I also have some new Mesembs which are in some kind of coir mix, it looks like. These are
Faucaria tigrina variegata
Gibbaem dispar
Pleispilos neilli

Also, does anyone have experience with Adromiscus in this type of soil? Should I repot now or wait till spring?

Sorry for all the questions, I am just a bit anxious and indecisive about soil mixes these days!!! haha!

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