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Orchid compost but no orchids

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
I have a small bag of orchid compost. Is it good for anything else or shall I just mix it in with normal stuff?
In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Orchid compost is very specialised.  Very liitle nutrient, very fast drainage, a  bit of localised moisture retention.   You will gain little by blending it off.   Perhaps an epiphylic fern.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    It's great for aroids like climbing philodendrons, or other epiphytic houseplants like Hoyas, Rhipsalis, Stag Horn Ferns etc. Typically you mix it with MPC and perlite/grit. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
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