Cymbidium goeringii "Gyoku-ei" (Japanese) 日本春蘭「玉英」

[Asian Cymbidium Empress]

The potting material imported from Japan directly. It is called "East Asian Cymbidium Mix". This is the material used for all East Asian Cymbidium in the Jensoa section, including C. ensifolium, C. sinenese, C. kanran, C. goeringii, C. goeringii subspecies, and C.faberii. The Mix is a combination of 3 materials/pumices in a predetermined ratio: hard Kanuma, baked akadama, and satsuma. Hard kanuma and baked akadama are higher quality than Regular Kanuma and regular akadama as the regular stuff are too soft and crumble too easily, creating waterlog. So, I have 3 grades of the Mix: Large, Medium, and Small and potted like this: Large bottom 10% of the pot, Medium 80% of the pot (main body of the pot), and Small (top 10% of the pot). This is the traditional potting method as described in all the books. This material is the standarized materials used in East Asia (China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan), so nothing special. You might be able to get some components in the US (but I am not sure if it has all the sizes). if you want to grow it, and buy the components individually, you will need to buy 3 sizes of each pumices (so 9 in total). It's just too much work, so I just flew to Japan to get the materials, saves all the headaches.