rePotme Orchid Potting Mix, Phalaenopsis Dark Classic Orchid Mix (Mini Bag) - Hand Blended in The USA

This substrate is very chunky and comes very dry and clean. It will not make a mess when repotting, and is probably one of the best options for plants that need a lot of aeration in their substrate.There is a tiny bit of sphagnum moss in this, but I don’t think it’s enough to make any noticeable difference tbh. It’s very sparse. But regardless, I like this. It’s very chunky and even though I haven’t had anything planted in it for more than a week, I can tell that it’s going to be very hard to overwater and it’s going to be highly aerated.If you want to have a little more water retention just buy a little block of sphagnum moss (a little block of that stuff creates a TON of wet moss), or if you want to fill in the open space between the chunks you could use some perlite, or even some Aroid mix. See my second picture for what the majority of this product looks like.It’s difficult to pot an orchid with this if you’ve never done it before. In hindsight I would say to wet this product first, so that it has some weight to it, which will help to keep the plant upright. Otherwise you’ll have to continuously hold the plant up or stake it to keep it upright will filling the pot. It’s extremely light and blocky when dry.So I like everything about this stuff, nothing I mentioned is a negative to me (just trying to be helpful by pointing it out everything I can think of), but there is one negative; it seems expensive for what you get. For the mini bag, I was able to repot two orchids from 4” pots to one of each 5” and 6” pots, but I had to use a bunch of sphagnum moss, perlite and even some of the drier material from my Aroid Mix to fill the pots. It wasn’t enough for the two pots alone, at $20. I’m guessing the mini bag would fill about 1-1.5 pots which are 5-6” typical height pots. If you have repot multiple plants or you’re using large pots, you’re going to need a lot more than just the 2 quart mini bag (a quart is about 1 liter, it’s a little less, but remember this is very chunky stuff so a volume measurement isn’t super helpful because you’re cramming it all together in a pot much more than it is when it’s sitting loosely in the bag).

I have been using RePotme products for years. Excellent. Great support. Their lines are excellent quality.

Great potting mix. Orchids love it. repotme products are the best.

Seems to be good so far, this my first transplant of an orchid.

Great for my orchids

This was my 1st tike reporting an orchid. I thought I should go with a good trusted brand of potting medium. I know others who use the brand but no this mix specifically. Well first I would say probably better off ordering from the manufacturer website as they guarantee freshness and that it will be moist upon arrival. This was extremely dry my guess becuase it sat a long time. So that can be fixed by the soaking the orchid in the pot in the medium after replanting. It was clean no bugs or anything there shouldn't be. Plenty of mix to repot 2 5.5 to 6 inch pots. I personally won't ever use this particular medium again as I found the peices to be to large and not easy to work with etc. Again i am new this as well so take my experience lightly. I broke many of the roots reporting I blame the large chunky mix but could be I didn't know what I was doing?

Excellent Mix

This is the soil you want if you have orchids. Contains everything in specific amounts that will keep your plants thriving and blooming for years to come. Please don’t get that orchid at Home Depot in the pink bag. It is useless. Go for the real thing and give your precious orchids a comfy place to grow