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DESERT JEWEL - Succulent & Cactus Soil Mix
If your succulents keep rotting, it was never your watering it was a mix that stays wet.
Succulents and cacti store their own water and evolved in dry, gritty, mineral ground. Put them in the soft, moisture-holding "succulent soil" most brands sell and they sit damp for days and rot from the roots up worst of all through the Indian monsoon.
Desert Jewel is mineral-dominant and gritty by design. It drains in seconds and dries fast, even when the air is humid. Lab-tested at GKVK, Bengaluru, it's the densest, most mineral blend we make built so desert plants stay dry-footed the way they're meant to. And because it ships dry, you're paying for substrate, not water weight.
Built for: Echeveria, Haworthia, Aloe, Crassula, Sedum, Lithops, Euphorbia, Adenium, cacti.
Lab-tested (GKVK, FAO method): AFP 21.5% · WHC 1,585 g/kg · pH 6.47
→ Read the full science: [Succulent & Cactus Soil Guide]
What's inside
- LECA fluoride-free structural drainage, appropriate for fluoride-sensitive species
- Zeolite potassium retention for frond development; moisture reserve
- Perlite macro-pore aeration
- Mineral Lock™ moisture film for palm watering cycles
- Microbial Innoculent - moderate nutrition appropriate for palms; does not tolerate richness
- Activated Charcoal 700 IV 700 m²/g adsorption, pH buffer
- Active Brain sodium purge, pH calibration, long-term pH stability
How many pots it fills
One kg bag fills approximately six to seven 4 inch pots and three 6 inch pots depending on the pot size
Instructions
Step 1: Fill the substrate in the pot and tap it to make the substrate settle
Step 2: Water it until you see water drops coming from the bottom
Step 3: Wait for 5 minutes
Step 4: Water it again until the water starts flowing freely from the bottom (This will start the Ph buffering and the EC to come down)
Side by side with what you're using now
Performance data
How to use
Pick the mix engineered for your plant family. Each is formulated for specific native habitat conditions.
Fill your pot to one-third with the substrate leaving the cavity of the plant, Plant the plant and fill the substrate completely
Water on first use to activate Mineral Lock and trigger Active Brain pH calibration and wait for 5 minutes
Water the substrate until it drains freely. The substrate self-manages drainage, nutrition and pH for 1 - 1.5 years. No testing required.


