Inorganic soil

Inorganic soil is soil with a high content of mineral elements originating from the parent rock weathering processes in the earth. The process of weathering is due to o / er a variety of things, that is weathering the physical, biological, mechanical, and chemical. In addition, inorganic materials can also be derived from synthetic materials or chemicals made in factories. Some inorganic media are often used as a planting medium that is gel, sand, gravel, broken bricks, sponges, clay, vermiculite, and perlite.

Gel

Gel or hydrogel is a polymer crystals that are often used as hydroponic growing media for plants. Use of this type of media is very practical and efficient because it does not bother to replace it with a new, flush, or nurture. In addition, the planting medium also has variation in color so that election can be tailored to the tastes and colors of plants.Therefore, it would create the beauty and the beauty of ornamental plants are placed in the living room or den.

Sand

Sand is often used as an alternative growing media to replace the function of the soil.So far, the sand is considered sufficient and appropriate when used as a medium for seeding seeds, growing seedlings, stem cuttings and root crops. Its quick-drying will facilitate the process of removal of seeds of plants that are considered old enough to be transferred to other media. While the sand is pretty heavy weights will facilitate the establishment of stem cuttings. In addition, the benefits of planting medium sand is the ease of use and to improve aeration and drainage system of planting media. Poor sand and building sand is a type of sand that is often used as a planting medium.

Gravel

Basically, the use of gravel as a medium for planting are: idakjauh different from the sand. However, gravel has macro pores more than the sand. Gravel is often used as a medium for the hydroponic cultivation of plants. The use of this medium will help the circulation of nutrient solution and air and in principle does not suppress root growth.However, the gravel has the ability to bind water is relatively low so easy wet and dry quickly if watering is not done routinely.

Brickbat

Broken bricks can also be an alternative as the planting medium. As with other inorganic materials, media types also serves to embed the roots. Instead, the size of bricks to be used as planting media made lesser, such as gravel, with a size of about 2-3 em. More and lesser size, power brick to water absorption and nutrients will increasingly balk. In addition, an increasingly lesser size will also make air circulation and humidity around the plant roots took place the better.

Sponges (floralfoam)

The hobbyists who engaged in the cultivation of ornamental plants have often utilize inorganic spans as planting media. Judging from the nature, spans a very lightweight, so easy to be moved around and placed anywhere. Although lightweight, the media type does not require ballast because after being soaked or drenched with water will be heavy on its own so it can enforce the plant.