Hi! I bought night blooming jasmine a mont ago. It does n...
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Hi there, do you have access to potting mix? the soil you have the jasmine in looks much like clay/mud. I’m wondering if there’s insufficient aeration to your roots. It may be that your plant is getting root rot. A standard potting mix is usually much darker in colour and will have some texture to it - including soil, bits of tiny rocks and bark or coconut coir. What I normally do is mix the standard potting mix with 20% perlite. This achieves a good amount of aeration, providing oxygen to the roots to keep the plant healthy and avoid root rot. I hope that helps! 🌿🌿🌿
@KeyCebenese88 there is a difference indeed. Compost is made from decaying matter like food, leaves, sticks etc that are turned into a nice rich crumbly texture by bacteria, microbes, worms etc. It is usually great to use a specially for growing vegetables and herbs but you still want to be mixing it with materials that will add aeration such as perlite, orchid bark etc. Potting mix is soil/dirt mixed with little bits of things like rocks and thin fibres of bark or coconut coir. It often has slow release fertiliser added to it which is helpful as it means you don’t need to fertilise for 6-9 months from your initial repotting into this medium.
I would suggest that if you’re just starting out and growing non edible plants, keep it simple and use potting mix that you mix 20% perlite with. Ie use 80% potting mix and 20% perlite. That’s usually a good basic ratio. As you learn and get more experienced you can experiment with adding in other ingredients. There are many useful “recipes” out there for plant substrates 🌿🌿
I would suggest that if you’re just starting out and growing non edible plants, keep it simple and use potting mix that you mix 20% perlite with. Ie use 80% potting mix and 20% perlite. That’s usually a good basic ratio. As you learn and get more experienced you can experiment with adding in other ingredients. There are many useful “recipes” out there for plant substrates 🌿🌿