Ghazanfar Ghori

I've been playing with adding Kanuma soil to my crypt soil mix as an experiment.
Kanuma is a soil mined from the region of Kanuma in Japan. Its an acidic soil, folks usually
grow acid loving plants in it - like azeleas, gardenias and some bonsais.
Anyway, I got some from a bonsai supply store to try out as part of my crypt mix. I tried 100% kanuma in several pots, as well as 95/5 Kanuma/Leaf compost. The three different cordata
varieties I'm growing in it are showing very good growth. I dug up one of the plants to see the root health, and
that looks pretty good too. One of my C. longicaudas I was growing in near 100% Kanuma was also showing really good growth - until I ripped it out to trade . Anyway, if you want to try it, I'd reccomend it - atleast for
experimentation purposes. I havent been using it long enough to say its better than anything else, but the results
are looking decent.

Xema

Yeah, Kanuma is present in all my black water soil mixes. I can certify is a good stuff. But never tested pure. Nevertheless I have been testing pure akadama with rain-water plants as hudoroi, and at the moment work fine.

Anyway, I need to test pure kanuma... maybe I would be doing some test with kota tinggi culturing few rhizomes as is very well explained by Kai.