Thanks!
My soil didn't sink down much, which is cool because I never really packed it down in the first place. I topped up the soil for two reasons: One, because I had read that plants will sometimes build new roots above the old soil line and increase their structure/stability. And two, the top portion of my soil had a lot of perlite in order to be gentle on the young plant, and now that it's larger, I wanted to have a nice top layer of rich soil and minerals so that future waterings would pull some of that goodness downwards. The Worm Gold Plus has a guaranteed high level of chitinase too, which wards off insects and triggers the plant into making it's own chemical markers that make it unattractive to pests. Too early to see if it has any benefit, but I figure it certainly couldn't hurt it. There's plenty of room still between my first leaves and soil.
My soil didn't sink down much, which is cool because I never really packed it down in the first place. I topped up the soil for two reasons: One, because I had read that plants will sometimes build new roots above the old soil line and increase their structure/stability. And two, the top portion of my soil had a lot of perlite in order to be gentle on the young plant, and now that it's larger, I wanted to have a nice top layer of rich soil and minerals so that future waterings would pull some of that goodness downwards. The Worm Gold Plus has a guaranteed high level of chitinase too, which wards off insects and triggers the plant into making it's own chemical markers that make it unattractive to pests. Too early to see if it has any benefit, but I figure it certainly couldn't hurt it. There's plenty of room still between my first leaves and soil.
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