#ohhh you know it in the dmbj Plant Crimes AU

[fixaidea]

Planty hot-take of the day is that selling tiny bags of specialised 'Aroid mix' soils that are barely enough to repot a seedling are either quasi-scams that exploit over-anxious beginners or deliberately unreasonable luxury products for the type of buyer who would pay 1000 dollars for a cup of gold-flaked icecream just to prove they're better than you.

What you need to do is go to your nearest garden centre, buy some all-purpose planting soil, a bag of perlite and a bag of orchid bark. Mix them in a bowl/bucket and there, you have a perfect Aroid mix. Also in this quantity it will last you much longer than the teeny little bags I've seen unboxed on Youtube.

Also maybe experiment on a garden-centre Alocasia and a cheap Philodendron first, don't get something from Doc Bloc or a huge mature albo Monstera as your first ever houseplant, because then your anxiety over possibly losing it might drive you to fall for schemes like this.