Choosing the Best Soil for Botany Pots

Match soil to plant

The soil slot determines what the pot can grow. Different plants accept different soils, so the best soil is the one the plant expects. Test a soil by placing it in the pot and inserting the seed or sapling; if the plant does not start growing, the soil is wrong for it.

Common soil choices

Use dirt-based soils for standard crops and saplings. Richer soils support more demanding plants. If a plant refuses to grow, swap the soil before changing anything else in the pot.

Scaling soil across many pots

When you run a large farm, keep a chest of the correct soil next to the pots. Hopper variants such as Hopper Botany Pot, Black Hopper Botany Pot, Blue Hopper Botany Pot, Brown Hopper Botany Pot, Cyan Hopper Botany Pot, Gray Hopper Botany Pot, Green Hopper Botany Pot, Light Blue Hopper Botany Pot, Light Gray Hopper Botany Pot, Lime Hopper Botany Pot, and Magenta Hopper Botany Pot let you automate output while you focus on refilling soil. Pair each hopper pot with a matching decorative variant if you want the farm to look uniform. Waxed and glazed pots, such as Black Waxed Botany Pot or Black Glazed Botany Pot, are cosmetic and do not change soil behavior.