| USES OF PUMICE IN HORTICULTURE: Horticultural pumice improves porosity and aeration. Optimizes absorption, retention, and exudation. Absorbs moisture, air and nutrients to promote root growth. Lightens heavy soils and increases retention in light and sandy soils. Functions continuously and permanently, will not break down by cultivation. Regulates feeding by prolonging the availability of any given amount of fertilizer. Retains neutralizers to more permanently rectify acid or alkaline soil conditions. Realizes advantages with as little as 10% addition. Enhances drought tolerance. Ideal for Hydroponics. |