Porous Soil Amendment for Improved Drainage, Aeration & Potting Mix Structure

Customize your growing media with Soil Sunrise Horticultural Charcoal Soil Additive. This lightweight, porous material can be blended into potting mixes to help create additional air space, improve drainage, and contribute to a looser, more open soil structure.

Ideal for houseplants, orchids, aroids, tropical plants, terrariums, container gardens, and custom potting mixes, horticultural charcoal is a versatile ingredient for growers who want greater control over the texture and structure of their growing media.

Key Benefits:

• Improves Soil Structure: Adds coarse, porous particles that help keep potting mixes open and less compact.
• Supports Drainage & Aeration: Helps create additional air space while allowing excess water to move through the growing medium.
• Porous Growing-Media Ingredient: Its naturally porous structure makes horticultural charcoal a useful component in chunky and specialty potting mixes.
• Versatile Soil Amendment: Suitable for houseplants, orchids, aroids, tropical plants, terrariums, container gardening, and custom soil recipes.
• Easy to Mix & Use: Blend with potting soil, bark, coco coir, perlite, or other growing-media ingredients to create a mix suited to your plants.
  

What Is Horticultural Charcoal?

Horticultural charcoal is a lightweight, porous carbon material used as a component in plant-growing media. Its coarse texture helps create spaces within a potting mix, contributing to improved airflow and drainage around the root zone.

It is commonly combined with ingredients such as potting soil, bark, coconut coir, perlite, pumice, peat moss, and other growing-media components when creating custom blends for plants that benefit from an open, well-aerated root environment.

How to Use Horticultural Charcoal:

1. Choose your growing medium. Start with potting soil or the other ingredients in your custom plant mix.
2. Add charcoal as needed according to the drainage and texture needs of the plants you are growing. 
3. Mix thoroughly to distribute the charcoal evenly throughout the growing medium. 
4. Adjust the amount for the plant. Plants that prefer a chunkier, more aerated growing medium may benefit from a greater proportion of charcoal.
5. Water according to your plant's needs after planting or repotting.
   

Where Can I Use Horticultural Charcoal?

Indoor Houseplants:
Mix into potting soil to create a lighter, more open growing medium.

Aroids & Tropical Plants:
Combine with bark, perlite, coco coir, and other ingredients to add texture and porosity to chunky plant mixes.

Orchids:
Use as a component in bark-based or other open orchid growing media where additional structure and airflow are desired.

Terrariums:
Incorporate into custom terrarium substrates as part of a layered or mixed growing medium.

Container Gardening:
Blend with potting media used in indoor and outdoor containers to adjust drainage and soil structure.

Custom Soil Blends:
Use alongside other soil amendments to create growing media tailored to the needs of specific plants.

How Much Horticultural Charcoal Do I Need?

Choose the bag size that best fits your potting or repotting projects. The actual amount needed will vary depending on container size, number of cuttings, and how much growing media is needed for each plant.

2 qt: Small projects, individual plants, or experimenting with custom mixes.
4 qt: Several small houseplants or light soil-amending, or experimenting with custom mixes.
8 qt: Multiple houseplants or medium-sized repotting projects.
12 qt: Larger collections, terrariums, or frequent soil mixing.
30 qt: Bulk soil blending, large plant collections, or larger gardening projects.

Why Choose Soil Sunrise Horticultural Charcoal?

Soil Sunrise Horticultural Charcoal Soil Additive offers a simple way to customize the structure, drainage, and aeration of your growing media. Whether you're creating a chunky aroid mix, modifying houseplant soil, preparing an orchid substrate, or developing your own specialty blend, horticultural charcoal provides a versatile porous component for custom soil recipes. 

Ideal for houseplants, orchids, aroids, tropical plants, terrariums, container gardening, and custom potting mixes.

100% Horticultural Charcoal
Made in the USA
  

Note: Individual plant results may vary based on plant species, watering, light, temperature, container type, growing medium, and other growing conditions.