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Not a Member: I am the author of the 2nd thread you are referring. Pine trees are not always present, but they can acidify the soil. Unofortunately I have never checked the Ph of the soil, but it should be acidic, because you can always observ acid-soil lover plants in a community. According to...

Hi SDCPs, I also have DL seeds for trade, collected in this summer at a natural site, Portugal. Are you still interested in trading? Richard

Well, its not the part of the topic, but recently i was trying to germinate DL seeds. As you can see, one of them is showing the first signs. :) I was doing the scarification on them with sandpaper. You can see the little white part after i erased the hard seed coat. I could arrange rock...

Hi! Thanks for sending your Drosophyllum pix, they are really cool! Dont you have some seeds by chance? :) Im also interested the conditions and the media you use for them! Richard

Now im intending to go to a fieldtrip with a professor, who knows some sites, so im gonna show you if i find something there ;)

ok, i finally got your idea :D I guess you are asking this, because their roots are educting a kind of chemical substance, which is making the other plants disturbed in growing. Well, i didnt experience any difference between them, but all of them seemed a bit less in height which i had...

As far as i know their populations are very isolated, like this (it was only a 20m circle), and further there was no more plants. Sorry, but what would you like to express with your 2nd question, its not fully clear to me :)

hi!

It was one with 2 growth points, but near to them i counted more than 10 individuals, but the dry season made its effect as you can see...

Dear All, Its a pleasure to share these photos with you, taken in july, 2009. This site can be found in the southern part of Portugal (Algarve). If one of you is going there, i can give the exact locality for you to observ them in nature. Its pretty sure that there are other sites more...

Yes, i toke some pictures, Im going to open a new topic for that.

Thanks a lot for the long answer and tips! For now, the state of the plant went worst, it broke in the middle :-( so i dont have the chance even to repot it... Next time i will pay more attention to the soil and watering. By the way, do you know anyone who is changing/selling Drosophyllum seeds...

The pot has a diamater of 12cm approx. The soil has peat moss/perlite/pine needles 2:1:1 mixture.

Well, it can be! Portuguese cp growers adviced me to give water (after they saw the pictures). I gave some, and now it looks worst, so i think the same, it can be the problem of too much water, but before that i almost didnt give any for 1 month.... The soil must be fully dry, or can be a little...

Dear All, Im totally new here, but after reading the post, i really found a lot of good tips about CPs, and i can see, that its an extremely cool community :) Actually, i am living in Portugal, and growing some CPs as well, but my favourite is the pt dewy pine for sure :) I germinated the seed...