GrowTropicals Potting Substrates
GrowTropicals Potting Substrates
Here you’ll find everything you need to pot up healthy and happy plants, with a focus on sustainable as well as premium, peat-free, quality substrates! We stock Houseplant Mix, Jungle Mix, Desert Mix, Terrarium Mix, Orchid Mix, Live Sphagnum Moss, Coco Coir, Coarse Perlite, Worm Castings, Fine Charcoal, Medium Orchid Bark & LECA (4-10mm). All products come in recyclable and resealable pouches.
🌱 Houseplant Mix (2.5L or 8L)
Simply Houseplant has been designed from the ground up as a high-quality, all-purpose repotting mix designed to give excellent results with a wide range of indoor houseplants. Produced with a uniquely formulated base of Coco Coir, Growfibre, Bark and Perlite, Simply Houseplant also comes with a specially formulated nutritional profile designed to give your houseplants a nutritional boost from the start. The mix is designed to be free draining to promote excellent root growth and comes with up to 2 months of feed to ensure your plants grow strong and healthy foliage.
🌳 Jungle Mix (2.5L)
Premium, peat-free repotting mix, designed for all-round use with tropical houseplants. The coarse mix allows for maximum oxygen exchange whilst retaining moisture, ensuring healthy roots whilst avoiding root rot. Worm castings in the mix add all the essential nutrients and trace minerals that your plants require so this is a sure-fire way to start your plants off in the right way. Jungle Mix is ideal for use with Anthuriums, Monstera, Philodendrons Syngoniums, and more.
🌵 Desert Mix (2.5L)
All round cacti and succulent repotting mix, designed to give excellent results with a wide range of desert plants. The coarse clay-based mix is designed to be free-draining to promote root growth whilst avoiding root rot.
🐸 Terrarium Mix (2.5L)
Simply Terrarium is a premium, peat-free repotting mix, based on the tried and tested ABG mix developed by Atlanta Botanical Gardens. This mix has been designed for optimal drainage and long-lasting structure even in extremely high humidity. Animal safe, this mix can be used in both terrariums and vivariums.
🌷 Orchid Mix (2.5L)
Designed for the successful growing of orchids like Phalaenopsis. The carefully curated woody mix of bark, pumice, charcoal and sphagnum moss offers the perfect balance of aeration and water retention needed to help your orchids thrive.
💚Alocasia Mix (2.5L)
Alocasia is a premium mix specially designed to grow tricky Alocasia indoors. The light and airy mix allows for maximum oxygen exchange whilst retaining a lot of moisture, ensuring a healthy root system to avoid rot. Worm castings in the mix add all the essential nutrients and trace minerals that your plants require so this is a sure-fire way to start your plants off in the right way.
🌿 Live Sphagnum Moss (2.5L)
Sustainably farmed, live sphagnum moss, collected on licence. The perfect substrate for rooting cuttings, air layering, top dressing or increasing water retention in your potting mix. This live sphagnum moss is also perfect for growing carnivorous plants.
🥥 Coco Coir (2.5L)
Coco coir is the perfect blend of coconut piths and fibre. It is great for adding moisture retention to your mix. Unlike peat. coco coir is far more environmentally sustainable and a perfect choice for someone looking to make a positive environmental impact. Washed and buffed for excellent results.
🌋 Coarse Perlite (2.5L)
Perlite is created by crushing and heating volcanic rock until it expands to create small, white, porous pieces. This lightweight material is pH neutral and is added to soil mixes to increase aeration, prevent compaction and promote root growth; but it is also used as a standalone substrate for rooting cuttings or for rehabilitation.
🐛 Worm Castings (2.5L)
A complete, natural fertiliser to boost growth and foliage health. Made from waste products of worms, this is the most natural form of fertiliser you can find. Can be used as a mix component or for top dressing when you wish to refresh your soil.
🌲 Medium Orchid Bark (2.5L)
Orchid bark is a great organic medium to add to potting mixes. The organic materials help to provide nutrients for the roots whilst also being a great option to help with aeration, making it a must-have for homemade potting mixes. Medium-grade bark is perfect for use in soil mixes and for growing orchids.
⛰️ Fine Charcoal 2-5mm (2.5L)
Amazonian peoples use charcoal as a key ingredient of their terra preta soils, and today it is a staple component in nearly every substrate mix used in the aroid, terrarium and vivarium hobbies. It also makes an excellent drainage material that will help reduce the overall weight of your vivarium display.
🏺 LECA 4-10mm Grade (2.5L)
LECA (lightweight expanded clay aggregate) has wicking properties that make it an excellent medium for growing plants hydroponically or for use as a component in a soil mix. It’s also a great option for promoting root growth in propagations and for terrarium drainage layers.
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