I'm struggling to find the materials I need to correctly re-pot my citrus trees (meyer lemon, persian lime, blood orange, variegated pink lemon) and saw some pine bark nuggets at Home Depot and wondered if that would be good to amend a potting mix to assist drainage and drying of the soil. Anyone have any experience with this material?
I am by no means an expert, but it has been recommended to me by someone that is. Check out the reply to my question there is a recipe involving pine bark. I'm sure someone more knowledgable will be chiming in soon. Good luck! http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=34576
I use pine bark for most of my container citrus-- about 4 parts bark--hand crumbled if pieces are much bigger than an inch--to one part peat moss or commercial potting soil. I get most of my bark from dead trees, so the bark does no have any cambium. When I do use bark from places like HD, I pick out pieces that are just bark and put the pieces with cambium in my mulch piles. The cambium will decay much quicker and turn into a muck, so I avoid it in citrus pots.
