 Hi everybody, I hope that you're doing well and welcome back to Plants & Lucia. My name is Lucia and today we're gonna be making a succulent potting mix recipe. Okay, coming up! Before we start, I wanna thank you so much for watching this video. Since I made the video for my regular houseplant potting mix recipe, many of you have asked for this video so I'm so happy that I finally got to it. The first thing for a recipe is one part of sand. So you can use horticultural sand and I'm actually using sand that you can also use in aquariums and it has worked for me so yeah. Sand is very important because it will add drainage to our potting mix which is really important for succulents because they retain lots of water already so we don't want them sitting in wet soil. The second ingredient is one part of pearlite. Pearlite is actually a puffed volcanic rock that will help us with two things because pearlite absorbs water and at the same time is a very light material it will make our potting mix very fluffy which is very important when protecting roots of our succulents. The second thing is that pearlite also adds drainage to our potting mix which again is very important for our succulents. Now before you use pearlite make sure that you run water through it. This is because pearlite is very dusty and when we're working with it it can be bad for our lungs. So before you use it make sure that you run water through it so you can protect your lungs. Okay you guys the third ingredient is half a part of warm castings. Warm castings are pretty amazing because they will bring the nutrients to our potting mix so they contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium which are very important elements for our plants. They also have micronutrients and beneficial bacteria so half part of warm castings and the last ingredient is going to be half part of coconut coir. Coconut coir will actually retain some moisture for our plants which is great in a mix that has so much drainage. So the coconut coir will come in a block like this so all you have to do is take the amount of the block that you need and submerge it in water. Remember most likely when it absorbs the water it will actually double in size. So make sure that you cut the part that you need for your mix if you see that you cut more than what you need it it's okay just throw the unused coconut coir in a dry place. I prefer to use coconut coir instead of pit musk because pit musk is actually a fossil fuel so it takes many years to be made and it's not good for the planet when we use it. Instead coconut coir is a renewable source so in that sense it tends to be more sustainable. Okay so let's start with the process. First we're going to add the coconut coir so this is going to be half a cup then we will add half a part of warm castings, our one part of sand and our pearlite and my favorite part we mix. And here we have it my friends our succulent potting mix is ready. If you have any other recipes please let me know in the comments so we can all learn together and as always I will see you in the next video. Okay ciao!