Excellent quality
"Looking forward to planting my baby plants up in this mixture"
🌿 Product Information
Desert Mix is a peat free potting mix designed for all round use with cacti and succulents. The light and airy substrate allow for maximum drainage with some water retention to ensure good root growth without root rot. It's composed primarily of calcined molar clay, fine bark, sand and pumice.
Desert Mix is ideal for many Pachypodium, Euphorbia, Astrophytum, Echinocereus, and most other cacti and succulent genera.
The size listed is the diameter of the nursery pot. To ensure your decorative pot fits the plant, ensure the diameter is at least 2cm larger than the nursery pot size.
6cm - Baby Plant
9cm to 12cm - Small Plant
13cm to 15cm - Medium Plant
16cm to 19cm - Large Plant
21cm+ - XL Plant
Live Arrival Guarantee
All of the plants at House of Kojo are sold with our live arrival guarantee, which guarantees the health of every plant that we deliver. Our team of passionate plant people takes pride and care in ensure the safe and healthy arrival of your plants.
Should you encounter any issues with an order, simply contact our customer support team at info@houseofkojo.com within 7 days of receiving your order. To streamline the process, please provide your order number, full name, and several clear photos of the damaged plant.
Please be aware that compensation cannot be guaranteed if contacting outside of the 7 day period. This is because we can not guarantee the care and environment the plant has been kept in. Repotting your plant within this time frame will also void our guarantee.
Remember: plants are a product of Nature. Therefore, they will always exhibit natural variations in colours, shapes and even spots. Our guarantee does not cover these natural variations and imperfections.
House of Kojo will not be responsible for products mishandled by customers. It is the customer's responsibility to know how to properly care for the products they are ordering.
House of Kojo cannot accept claims or returns where customers have re-potted or pruned plants.
House of Kojo cannot be responsible for quality of plants in the event of a missed delivery by the customer or by contact details or addresses entered incorrectly during the ordering process. Our guarantee also does not cover parcels that have been left in an outdoor setting by DPD at the customers request.
Due to the perishable nature of the goods, House of Kojo cannot issue refunds on plants returned to us due to multiple missed deliveries or non collection from DPD Pickup Shops.
Repeated Returns
We offer a return and refund policy on undamaged items. We also monitor the frequency of returns made by customers and continued returns will be flagged. At our discretion this may lead to the closure of your account and future orders being refused.
Missing Plants
In the event that part of your order is missing, notify us immediately by email. House of Kojo will check to verify the packing of your box. If there is a discrepancy, House of Kojo will replace the item, stock permitting, or otherwise reimburse the full value of the missing item(s).
Payment and Cancellations
Card payments are charged at the moment of placing the order. Cancellations will be credited back to the charged card. Any cancellation may be subject to a processing fee of 5% of your total bill. No cancellations can be accepted if an order is already in fulfilment.
We offer free mainland delivery on all orders over £50
All plants are shipped using express next day services with DPD, UPS, Parcelforce and Royal Mail.
We offer economy shipping (3-5 day dispatch) and standard delivery (1-3 day dispatch).
For guaranteed next day dispatch please selected Express shipping at checkout available at an additional cost.
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Winter shipping is available in the winter months at an additional cost and includes heatpacks and thermal insulation where necessary.
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Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 48 reviews.
AI Generated Review Summary
GrowTropicals Desert Mix is a peat-free potting mix praised for its quality and effectiveness in promoting healthy growth of cacti and succulents. Customers highlight its excellent drainage and aeration, which prevent root rot while ensuring good root growth.
Summary topics
- Potting Mix Quality: 46%
- Plant Growth Satisfaction: 20%
- Product Appearance: 17%
- Soil Quality: 30%
Review topics: ["quality","looks","service","mix","plant","drainage","roots"].
Review highlights
- "Always buy my soil mixes , perlite and leca from grow tropicals there amazing an my plants are happy !" —
- "Cuttings do well in this mix, as well as fully growing succulent plants." —
- "Great mix for happy cacti and succulents." —
Reviews
Great mix
"I have never seen a cactus mix like this before which made me curious to try and my succulents seem to like it, I prefer this over standard cactus / succulent mixes."
Premium Cacti & Succulent potting mix
"It’s very good and promptly delivered."
Perfect growing mix!
"I haven't used this yet but I am pleased with the amount that I received for the price I paid. It is great that you can get specific growing mediums for specific plants!"
"Brilliant thank you 😊 very much needed for a repotting session tomorrow. Thank you for the truley amazing quality product once again"
does the job!
"Does teh job! plants seem bery happy!"
A treat for Cacti and Succulents.
"This desert mix seems to have done a treat on my cacti and succulents. They have for the last two months since having brought it grown much faster than the old mix I used to use. And a few have been producing pups which they have not done before."
Just potted my peyote cactus
"Just potted my peyote cactus and elephant ear succulent into this, and it seems perfect! The mix has a great balance of drainage and aeration, plus it looks really nice. I’m sure my plants will thrive in it. Highly recommend!"
Great for succulents (testing it with pinguicula)
"This is a very good mix. I bave been using it for ally succulents and they love it and produce beautiful healthy roots. I recently tested the mix complwtely differently - its composition seemed appropriate for growing pinguicula so I tried a few in it. So far they are doing very well. Of course for pings it needs to be kept moist during growing season. Only time will show if they thrive however."
Happy 😊
"Great quality mix!"