Glass Jar Garden

Stones and wood

Manten stone as drawn in the simulator

Manten stone

Blue-black stone laced with thin white veins, a sharp and dramatic focal rock.

What the simulation uses

Holds water
1 % by volume
Water it keeps after draining; the rest runs down to the drainage.
Pore space
2 % by volume
Room for air and water between grains; low means roots suffocate when wet.
Weight
2600 g/L
How heavy a litre is.
pH
7 to 7.5 pH
How acid it keeps the soil.

Description

Blue-black stone laced with thin white veins, a sharp and dramatic focal rock. It is dense, holds almost no water and stays near neutral.

Also called manten rock.

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

Grow it in a jar