Pialite ™ Horticulture Grade
Pialite ™ Perlite Horticulture grade is a super lightweight 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 provide 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.
Various grades of perlite are available that can be used solely or with peat moss, sand, coco peat 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 and easily from the bed without large clumps clinging to and damaging the roots.
perlite is a perfect medium for soil conditioning for the following effect
- Soil structure is improved due to the near ideal air-water relationship that perlite can bring into a soil medium.
- The air holding capacity of the soil is increased and adequate drainage is assured.
- Over watering and under watering losses are reduced due to the surface structure of the particle that retains 3 or 4 times its weight in water without penetrating the particle. Excess water will drain off.
- A more even distribution of the root system is made possible throughout the entire growing media.
- Pialite ™ Perlite is easy to handle; hence it does not require any sterilization and can mix well with other medium.
- Uniform growing and propagating media are insured regardless of season or location
