Glass Jar Garden

Stones and wood

Frodo stone as drawn in the simulator

Frodo stone

Grey-brown angular rock with deep ridges, sold for aquascapes.

What the simulation uses

Holds water
1 % by volume
Water it keeps after draining; the rest runs down to the drainage.
Pore space
3 % by volume
Room for air and water between grains; low means roots suffocate when wet.
Weight
2550 g/L
How heavy a litre is.
pH
7 to 7.5 pH
How acid it keeps the soil.

Description

Grey-brown angular rock with deep ridges, sold for aquascapes. It is dense, holds almost no water and leaves pH near neutral.

Also called mini landscape rock.

Estimated, where sources were thin: look authored for the app; physical values estimated.

Grow it in a jar