Sun Bulb 5011 Better-Gro Phalaenopsis Mix, 8 Quarts

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

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!

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.

disclaimer: I'm new to orchids and feel like despite all the information on the internet, I'm making it up as i go along. I'm still sorting out the revised watering regimen with this potting mix- the bark pieces are substantially larger than I had anticipated. I'm new to orchids, but I suspect this might be better for larger orchids, instead of the first re-potting of the $10 supermarket flower. It provides much more air about the roots than the tight sphagnum that was with the plants originally. At first, it didn't seem to hold moisture terribly well. now, after about 2 months of flood cycles, the bark seems to stay moist longer and I'm putting a but more time between watering. It might work better with a layer of sphagnum on top to keep a more consistent humidity? I had never repotted an orchid and purchased this based on reviews. It seems to have worked relatively well. repotting an orchid for the first time is vaguely terrifying (for me). i think for a brand new orchider without a lot of plant experience in general, the directions could have been clearer. I repotted 2 orchids. the healthier orchid went through a brief shock period of wilty leaves. I misted instead of watering for 2 weeks, as one resource recommended that this encouraged new root growth. 1 leaf was lost but the plant is doing very well now. The less healthy orchid went through more of a shock, lost 2 leaves, and has some scarring on 2 of the remaining leaves. However, it now has new leaf growth so it seems to have recovered. This potting mix seems to work well, and the leaves on both plants appear happy. They're not due to flower again for another 8 months, so we'll see what happens then....

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. :)

I have 9 orchids and I replanted all of them with this and all have put on new leaves and three are started to put on new bloom shoots. With this and regular fertilizer they really surprised me.

This orchid potting mix is just what I wanted to repot all my orchids. It is a good sized bag of bark, that looks good, is easy to use and has no unpleasant smell. The bag is not too heavy to manage and it works well for my needs

Actually this is a very good product. But that said I am very disappointed that when I first ordered it at $7.38 for some reason it was undeliverable. I had the option to reorder so I did. But the price jumped to 11.29. I was not happy but needed it.

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

Despite a long wait worth buying