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<blockquote data-quote="Steve123" data-source="post: 71537" data-attributes="member: 3244"><p>Nice article Kymura, the most concise and considered review of substrate I've ever read.</p><p></p><p>Far as buying topsoil, I've had the same experience as y'all. It's hard to find the stuff without additives, like the soft, black, fine-grained potting soil we middle-age folks used to buy at the local flower shop (remember FTD?). The closest I can get nowadays are the no-brand big topsoil bags from local nurseries, kinda like what the OP photos show, but even then I find myself sifting out little pebbles and wood debris, mostly to no benefit <laughing at the things I waste time doing>. But these bags do it for me, untreated, alone or in a mixture of recycled, sifted old substrate (to remove webbing, food boluses, cricket bones, heads and wings, which go into compost outside). The recycled portion has an ever decreasing fraction of coir and other things I've stopped buying, for various odd reasons.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /></p><p></p><p>Far as spores, parasites and what not, I often think the threats to our charges as well as our own health may be more in our minds than our substrates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve123, post: 71537, member: 3244"] Nice article Kymura, the most concise and considered review of substrate I've ever read. Far as buying topsoil, I've had the same experience as y'all. It's hard to find the stuff without additives, like the soft, black, fine-grained potting soil we middle-age folks used to buy at the local flower shop (remember FTD?). The closest I can get nowadays are the no-brand big topsoil bags from local nurseries, kinda like what the OP photos show, but even then I find myself sifting out little pebbles and wood debris, mostly to no benefit <laughing at the things I waste time doing>. But these bags do it for me, untreated, alone or in a mixture of recycled, sifted old substrate (to remove webbing, food boluses, cricket bones, heads and wings, which go into compost outside). The recycled portion has an ever decreasing fraction of coir and other things I've stopped buying, for various odd reasons.:confused: Far as spores, parasites and what not, I often think the threats to our charges as well as our own health may be more in our minds than our substrates. [/QUOTE]
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