How to? I need help with Hibiscus cuttings please

That's a really good principle to use in garden beds but may not be the best thing for plants in containers. Having lots of decomposing things in your potting mix causes the mix to collapse more quickly and that creates problems with the roots not getting enough air. For more info, check out some of tapla's threads in the Indoor Gardening & Houseplants and Container Gardening forums, he explains this stuff way better than I ever could, but containers have different needs than garden beds so what works great for one may be less than ideal for the other.

Tapla's mix is more than I could dream for in containers outside. It is wonderful and easy to make.
Al's recipe for outside.


Big batch:

3 cu ft pine bark fines (1 big bag) (Texas Pride soil conditioner or whatever you can find for pine bark ...not nuggets..they are too big)
5 gallons peat
5 gallons perlite
1 cup lime (you can add more to small portion if needed)
2 cups CRF (controllled release fertilizer)
1/2 cup micro-nutrient powder or 1 gal composted manure STEM at SouthwestLL

1 gal composted manure STEM at SouthwestLL????
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GessieGall,
Don't quite understand. Please clarify...