Better-Gro Phalaenopsis Potting Mix - 8 Quarts | Premium orchid potting mix with peat, fir bark, charcoal & perlite; provides optimal drainage & air flow for root growth

Fast shipping. My orchids responded in 2 days after replanting. Big pieces of wood. Much better than the low quality big name brand. No smell. Not wet. Over joyed with results. I'll never purchase anything else again. Top quality perfect for my orchids. No little filler pieces.

Smells good, my orchids seem growing very well. Good price for the bid bag, recommend it.

This seems like a great mix. I have used it for several projects already. A rescued orchid, and as a mix in for two live planted tropical terrariums. It seems like a good mix with bark and charcoal and perlite in it.

The chunks in this mix are surprisingly large. When re- potting a couple of orchids, I actually used a hammer to break up some of the large chunks and supplemented with a bit of sphagnum moss and the leftovers of a well known name brand rough mix with smaller chunks of bark. Peat is included, but this bag seemed short on that ingredient. This is a good product, just be prepared to tweak it a bit.

Love it. Great quality materials however I am using it for other purpose than orchids. I am using it as a mulch type topping for outdoor plants. They are loving it!

About a year ago, I received two beautiful baby grocery store orchids crammed into 2" pots as a gift. It was a thoughtful gift, and I wanted desperately to keep them alive. But houseplants and me usually don't go well, unless it's the nearly indestructible pothos. Orchids seemed very complicated. After blooms where done, the leaves started to yellow, even though I was watering very sparingly. With the help of AI (thanks Grok!), I discovered the poor mossy planting medium was retaining all that moisture and never really drying out, resulting in horribly rotted roots. I stumbled through the process of trimming all the dying roots and carefully removing and tossing all that horrible and wet moss medium, and sought out a medium specific to my grocery store orchid. AI recommended this specific mix. I moved the trimmed orchids from their 2" plastic pots into 5" orchid specific pots with this mix, trying best to spread the roots in it without further damage. I know that was a big jump in size, but I didn't want to have to do it again any time soon, so hoped that they would eventually adjust to the much larger apartment and be happy. The medium is VERY chunky and VERY large, and just seemed too much for my tiny traumatized plants with very little root structure left. I'm not at all used to plants that require so much aeration, so it just felt wrong. But without much choice, I figured, "little plants, it's do or die time for you. Please like this new environment I am offering!" It's been about 7 months, and now the two green leaves that were remaining on each plant have now become 5 nice healthy green leaves. And yesterday, I noticed each plant had what I thought were aerial roots growing. But closer inspection shows these are flower spikes. How exciting is that!! My suffering and traumatized little orchids are going to flower the very next year, in spite of all that mess and so many changes, and abrupt relocations into pots more than twice the size they were in! So they must really like this mix. It can't possibly be me that they like, could it? This mix shows no sign of decay in the 7 months my plants have been residing in it, and looks like it will hold up for a long time. All those gaps in the medium due to the chunkiness of the content don't bother the plants at all. What do I know? So my little plants are happily growing and surviving in their new digs, in spite of me. I think they would let me know if they didn't like the mix they were living in, but they are thriving with no complaints. So I don't have any complaints either. :)

This is the cleanest easiest way to repot Phal orchids. I have used it for years with great success. The addition of perlite and charcoal do their job. This medium will last 2 years or more if handled and used correctly. This bag is HUGE! You can't beat Amazon's price. at 6.87. A tiny half of a half bag at Lowes was 5.98 last week. Glad I passed it up and bought this one from Amazon. Great clean product.

Bark is big, but my orchid loves it !

Delivery was quick, and exactly as I ordered. Very happy.

Despite a long wait worth buying