PERLITE
Perlite is a super light
weight potting media that is clean and easy to use as well as environmentally
friendly, offering many advantages allowing you to get the very best from your
plants, nurturing them and helping them grow healthy and strong. The unique properties
of Perlite provides for
excellent aeration and drainage while still ensuring good water retention.
A
white volcanic rock, Perlite is sterile allowing free handling, lasts
indefinitely, and has excellent insulation against temperature fluctuation
(Source: Perlite Institute Inc., USA).
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Perlite is ideal for propagation. Various grades of Perlite are available that can be used solely
or with peat moss, sand or other media. An outstanding advantage is that PERLITE
may be used safely without further sterilization. The lightweight properties
ensure that when cuttings and seedlings are ready for removal, you can lift
them safely easily from the bed without large clumps clinging to, and damaging
the roots. AUSPERL Perlite also makes sound economic sense, because it
withstands repeated usage, you can replant in the same bed.
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Horticultural Perlite has proven to be an excellent material to use as a soil
conditioning agent because it has certain characteristics, which provide the
following results: