rePotme Orchid Potting Mix, Phalaenopsis Dark Classic Orchid Mix (Mini Bag) - Hand Blended in The USA

This has the perfect mix for my orchids. They’re extremely happy. It gives them great airflow, support and drainage. The size of the bark is on the smaller side, which is great for my orchids that are growing in an 8 inch or less pot. It has a great mix of things that keep my orchid, moist without too much moisture, and gives it airflow, but doesn’t dry it out too much. It’s so much easier to repot my orchids with this mix as well. This is my go to their customer. Service is also amazing. The price point is very good for this mix as well. The other brands bark is way too large, and their mixes are terrible.

This substrate is very chunky and comes very dry and clean. It will not make a mess when repotting, and is probably one of the best options for plants that need a lot of aeration in their substrate. There is a tiny bit of sphagnum moss in this, but I don’t think it’s enough to make any noticeable difference tbh. It’s very sparse. But regardless, I like this. It’s very chunky and even though I haven’t had anything planted in it for more than a week, I can tell that it’s going to be very hard to overwater and it’s going to be highly aerated. If you want to have a little more water retention just buy a little block of sphagnum moss (a little block of that stuff creates a TON of wet moss), or if you want to fill in the open space between the chunks you could use some perlite, or even some Aroid mix. See my second picture for what the majority of this product looks like. It’s difficult to pot an orchid with this if you’ve never done it before. In hindsight I would say to wet this product first, so that it has some weight to it, which will help to keep the plant upright. Otherwise you’ll have to continuously hold the plant up or stake it to keep it upright will filling the pot. It’s extremely light and blocky when dry. So I like everything about this stuff, nothing I mentioned is a negative to me (just trying to be helpful by pointing it out everything I can think of), but there is one negative; it seems expensive for what you get. For the mini bag, I was able to repot two orchids from 4” pots to one of each 5” and 6” pots, but I had to use a bunch of sphagnum moss, perlite and even some of the drier material from my Aroid Mix to fill the pots. It wasn’t enough for the two pots alone, at $20. I’m guessing the mini bag would fill about 1-1.5 pots which are 5-6” typical height pots. If you have repot multiple plants or you’re using large pots, you’re going to need a lot more than just the 2 quart mini bag (a quart is about 1 liter, it’s a little less, but remember this is very chunky stuff so a volume measurement isn’t super helpful because you’re cramming it all together in a pot much more than it is when it’s sitting loosely in the bag).

Messy but good mix of materials.

I repotted my orchid with this mix about 2.5 weeks ago & the plant seems to be doing well. I researched this topic which led me to their website video. I was expecting the mix to be a bit moist but it was very dry - maybe because it was older (?) since I went through Amazon. Also there was very little of the "spongy" ingredient, much less than had been in the previous pot. Too early to give a 5 star rating.

This lasted for years on my orchids. Blooms every year. Now to repot it.

It is good potting soil

This was my 1st tike reporting an orchid. I thought I should go with a good trusted brand of potting medium. I know others who use the brand but no this mix specifically. Well first I would say probably better off ordering from the manufacturer website as they guarantee freshness and that it will be moist upon arrival. This was extremely dry my guess becuase it sat a long time. So that can be fixed by the soaking the orchid in the pot in the medium after replanting. It was clean no bugs or anything there shouldn't be. Plenty of mix to repot 2 5.5 to 6 inch pots. I personally won't ever use this particular medium again as I found the peices to be to large and not easy to work with etc. Again i am new this as well so take my experience lightly. I broke many of the roots reporting I blame the large chunky mix but could be I didn't know what I was doing?

rePotme Orchid Potting Mix, Phalaenopsis Dark Classic Orchid Mix (Mini Bag) - Hand Blended in The USA My mother’s orchid plants are all more than ten years old and gradually the soil in the pots has eroded. The rePotme potting mix was the perfect way to supplement the diminishing potting mix in those pots. While it is a bit costly for a small amount, I did not need a large quantity and chose this brand for its quality. The mixture I received was very dry, so I mixed it with water and let it soak until moistened. It was definitely a good quality with no debris and lots of the expected ingredients. Topping off the existing soil has made her plants look better and they even seem to be having some new spurts of growth.

Excellent product. Very thick, and held up well so far. I would purchase this again. For a single orchid this size bag was great! Good value for the money !

expensive but good quality. delivered rather quickly

i think its expensive, but cheaper than if i were to buy from their website since it costs almost 80$ for shipping... and without counting the conversion rate between US and CAN dollar... but this potting mix so far is the best i tried so far. will try molly's next time to compare since it seems cheaper than repotme! for this mini bag size, i was able to fill in my 3 orchid pots: 1x4" and 2x5" (meshpot with holes). before i never changed the moss they come with when i buy orchid. which now i do, because its not good for the roots as they need to breathe air and not be kept damped. with this new system,i realize i have to bathe my orchids twice a week but they are better than ever. so, idk if it's the combo of growing lights, pots with holes, adequate potting mix and slow fertilizer, but my orchids never been better. and i have tried for so long grow orchids for many years. but now, instead of one of them getting a second blooming, i now have my first keiki on the way (2 leaves at the moment). I'm delighted!

Big price for small product volume

I love the product itself but the seller charges way more then the rePot me company. I bought mini bag for $32.08 & price at rePotme is $14.95 . I’m in Canada so can’t get orchid mix from rePotme right now because of COVID. I thought the bag I was buying was medium sized. This is not a bad review because I should have read more carefully before ordering..I just don’t appreciate paying more then double for small bag.