It looks like Sphagnum Peat Moss to me.

Eric

Yeah, its just peat. It has no nutrient value what-so-ever, all it does is retain water. The grower must have been mixing plant food into the water.

Thank you Eric and Edymnion.

The plant food they use, I have been looking for but helpless. All the potted plants including bonsai plants available in the super markets here only used such type of sphagnum like soil. Their nutrients use for growing all these plants is a mystery to me. They sale a lot of ornamental chili plants most of them were grown in small pots like in this picture but they have a lot of fruits.

Caelian

It is not hot chili I know, I am really sorry to continue my question here about the soil and the leaves.

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I have cleaned the leaves but the leaves have some white dots, I do not know is it normal or disease. Your comments and opinion about these white dots will be appreciated honestly.

Caelian

Probably just standard miracle grow with micro-nutrients.

Osmocote is also good for bonsai.

Hi Edymnion, thank you for your opinion.

The most frustrating thing here I found is when you used all those names such as miracle grows with micro-nutrients or orchid soil :). So many names our members mentioned here about the soils and the fertilizers, most of them are not available here. May be available in different names. I found some of them in different name such as slow releasing fertilizer.

However I sincerely appreciate our members' efforts to help me to solve my problems and to answer my questions, it is remarkable.

I found openness and friendliness in our forum that's I cannot forget in my life.

Regards,
Caelian

This post was edited by chilliwin on Mon, Jan 28, 13 at 14:50

Use what you have around. Find a nice cheap potting soil and get some water soluble or slow release fertilizer. Always use the fertilizer 1/3 strength to be safe.

Try new potting mixes and see hpw they work, staying with potting mix for most of your plants for the first year. You can see how your own grow medium grows plants next to the potting mix. I found a mix of 90% peat and 10% composted horse manure worked great. The price was very low. I have used soil right out of the garden for a test and was happy with the results! It is free too! You just have to know when to water. Here is 2 cayenne I grew in 100% garden soil. This is a good example of why there is no reason get too picky with plants ;)

First planted.
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Few weeks or so in I had to mulch due to the soil drying too fast.
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Here they are after a nice rain. You can see the start of the production here.
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TheMasterGardener1, thank you for sharing your experiences and nice pictures.

We have our chili enthusiasts forum but not very active like here. So many of them have so many nice plants but we hardly discuss about container soil. So as a new container gardener I do not know much. I have learned about slow-release fertilizer from Josh and other forum members. Now I use slow-release fertilizer for the first time.

Caelian