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Specialty Gardening: Container Soils - Water Movement and Retention III , 1 by RickCorey_WA

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RickCorey_WA wrote:
I went looking for sieve analyses of different producers of "light aggregate".
There seem to be mostly "too big" and "too fine" products.
Hydrock Medium might be interesting but I could find the size range.
Haydite Greenhouse Blend straddles the right size, but aren't ¼" too big and 1/16 too small?
Haydite Nursery Blend seems close but too coarse, primarily ⅛" to 3/8" particles sizes

Hydrocks Fines 0 - ⅛"
Medium?
Hydrocks Coarse 3/16 - 5/8

Norlite see photo -
Intermediate is 62.5% bigger than 1/4"
Fine is 60% passing 16 mesh.

Haydite Greenhouse Blend is a specialized gradation of Haydite soil conditioner specifically designed for the demands of commercial greenhouse cultivation. Greenhouse blend consist primarily of 1/4"-1/16" particles sizes with nearly all dust and the very fine particles removed.

Haydite Nursery Blend is a specialized gradation of Haydite soil conditioner specifically designed for the demands of commercial nursery cultivation. Nursery blend consist primarily of 3/8"-1/8" particles sizes with nearly all dust and the very fine particles removed.

Al, I'm guessing you've been to all those websites years ago.