Zeolite

What does it do?

✅Best use for:

Everywhere if used visely!

🔬LOPOLISBIOTECH observations

• Holds significant amounts of moisture

• Holds positively charged nutrients

• Can help buffer nutrient availability

• Adds mineral structure to a substrate

• Remains stable without organic decomposition

• Can behave very differently depending on particle size

Particle size matters - ~5–8 mm zeolite worked very well for Monstera deliciosa, including smaller plants, but softer-rooted plants such as Monkey Mask and other Philodendrons did not tolerate this fraction as well.

Strong nutrient holding - Zeolite can buffer nutrients effectively. This was useful while we were developing our fertilizer approach, but later became harder to manage.

💡 Key point: Zeolite is powerful precisely because of its nutrient-holding capacity — but that can also make nutrient management more complicated.

Species respond differently - We observed both underfeeding and overfeeding symptoms depending on the plant, despite using the same zeolite-based setup.

Our conclusion - Excellent supporting material, but we prefer not to use it as the main structural component because its strong nutrient-holding properties can make feeding less predictable.