Lightweight Soil Amendment for Improved Drainage & Aeration

Improve the structure of your potting mixes with Soil Sunrise Horticultural Perlite Soil Additive. This lightweight growing-media amendment helps create air space within soil and potting mixes while allowing excess water to move more freely through the root zone.

Ideal for houseplants, succulents, cacti, tropical plants, container gardens, seed-starting mixes, and custom soil blends, horticultural perlite can be mixed with other growing-media ingredients to adjust drainage, aeration, and overall soil structure.

Key Benefits:

• Improves Drainage: Helps excess water move through potting mixes more efficiently.
• Increases Aeration: Creates additional pore space within the growing medium to help keep compacted mixes more open.
• Lightweight Soil Amendment: Adds structure without significantly increasing the weight of containers or potting mixes.
• Versatile Growing-Media Ingredient: Useful for houseplants, succulents, cacti, tropical plants, propagation mixes, container gardening, and custom soil recipes.
• Easy to Mix & Use: Blend with potting soil or other growing-media ingredients to create the drainage and texture appropriate for your plants.
  

What Is Horticultural Perlite?

Perlite is a lightweight material produced by heating naturally occurring volcanic glass until it expands into a porous structure. In horticulture, these lightweight particles are commonly added to growing media to increase air space and improve drainage.

Because perlite does not form a dense soil structure on its own, it works especially well as a component of custom potting mixes when combined with ingredients such as peat moss, coconut coir, bark, compost, or other growing media.

How to Use Horticultural Perlite:

1. Choose your growing medium. Start with potting soil or the other ingredients in your custom plant mix.
2. Add perlite as needed to increase drainage, aeration, and overall porosity. 
3. Mix thoroughly so the perlite is distributed throughout the growing medium. 
4. Adjust the amount for the plant. Plants that prefer faster-draining conditions may benefit from a higher proportion of perlite than moisture-loving plants.
5. Water according to your plant's needs after planting or repotting.
   

Tip: Lightly dampening perlite before mixing can help reduce airborne dust during handling.

Where Can I Use Perlite?

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

Succulents & Cacti:
Use as part of a fast-draining potting mix for plants that prefer greater drainage around their roots.

Tropical Plants & Aroids:
Combine with other chunky or moisture-retentive ingredients to improve air space within the root zone.

Seed Starting & Propagation:
Use as an ingredient in lightweight propagation and seed-starting mixes.

Container Gardening:
Add to potting mixes used in indoor and outdoor containers when additional aeration or drainage is desired.

Custom Soil Blends:
Combine with other growing-media ingredients to create a mix suited to the specific drainage and moisture requirements of your plants.

How Much Horticultural Perlite 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.
8 qt: Multiple houseplants or medium-sized repotting projects.
12 qt: Larger collections, container gardening, or frequent soil mixing.
30 qt: Bulk soil blending, large plant collections, or larger gardening projects.

Why Choose Soil Sunrise Horticultural Perlite?

Soil Sunrise Horticultural Perlite Soil Additive gives growers a simple way to customize the texture and drainage of their potting media. Whether you're refreshing an existing potting mix, creating your own houseplant soil, or blending growing media for succulents and tropical plants, perlite provides a lightweight and versatile component for adjusting soil structure. 

Ideal for houseplants, succulents, cacti, tropical plants, aroids, propagation, seed starting, container gardening, and custom potting mixes.

100% Perlite
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.