Soil/Pot Growth Experience

Trident

  • 10” basket, aggregate, fertilized—0.50” [11/2024]

  • 3 gal pot, aggregate, fertilized—0.40” [11/2024]

  • 1 gal pot, aggregate, fertilized—0.38”, 0.6”

  • 1 gal pot, Perlite+cocoa coir, fertilized—0.38”

  • 1 gal cloth, Perlitr+cocoa coir, fertilized—0.42”, 0.4”

Below—Jan 2025

Bald Cypress

  • Lots of watering

  • 3 gal pot, sandy aggregate, fertilized—0.73” [11/2024] doubled in size or more, in one season—base sitting in wet tray

  • 1 gal cloth pot, aggregate, fertilized—0.45” [11/2024] may have grown 30% in one season

  • Oval pot, organic, fertilized—0.35-0.55” [11/2024] may have grown 25-30% in one season

Larch

  • 1 gal pot, Perlite+cocoa coir, fertilized—0.43”, 0.42”, 0.4”, 0.37”, 0.34” [11/2024]

Below—Jan 2025

Cork Bark Elm

  • 5” basket, Perlite+cocoa coir, fertilized—0.20”, 0.2” from seed same season [11/2024]

  • 3” pot, organic, fertilized—0.22”, 0.2” from seed same season [11/2024]

Michael Wei2024, soilComment