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Old 10-11-2013, 11:49 AM
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A quick pic of Benisuzume on EcoWeb. Not the best shot; taken with a mobile in the rain.



The slab is so full of roots I can only straighten it out a little. It has 2 new fans starting on either side, so I guess it likes it.

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I ordered an Ecoweb hanging basket and cubes. I have a catt. walk. 'Kenny' that arrived in pretty bad shape months ago. I am going to try it in the basket with cubes.

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What dimensions do the cubes have?
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It seems like that material would be great for increasing the airiness of bark medium. Would it be easy to cut up into centimeter cubed chunks?
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It seems like that material would be great for increasing the airiness of bark medium. Would it be easy to cut up into centimeter cubed chunks?
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What dimensions do the cubes have?
They are 1" cubes, but the chopping process squashed them to about 1/2" thick. Warmed up, they will reexpand.
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I have a sheet of it and I've just been cutting up small chunks (just over 1cm each). It's not easy to cut and will blunt your scissors, but it's possible.

I'm interested by how well it would work to increase airiness, or whether it would hold too much water in that circumstance.

Anyway I have 12 keikis of a Den. I had 3 last year in S/H but I've dried them out since taking the other 9 and had them in plain leca. I've just put two of them into a mixture of moss and ecoweb cubes, I'm going to put another two in plain moss and leave the rest in Leca and see which do best, and I'll try and note how wet the ecoweb mixture is staying compared to the plain moss ones. They are all only in small pots, but some small pieces of this same den (additional to the 12 keikis, pieces I didn't expect to survive in the first place) were staying too wet in plain moss even with 5 of them in one pot. However they were also growing well, and I now want to try the larger keikis wetter than the leca but drier than the plain moss.

Here are some pics as I was potting it just now. We shall see if it works or not



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The best devices for cutting the stuff are a hot-wire cutter, a carbide-tipped power saw, or a finely-serrated knife (recognizing that you will dull it rapidly).
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