coconut

Has anyone got any experience using Western 2.5 media for tissue culturing CP's ? I mixed up a batch and forgot to add the coconut liquid for my paph. seed. No good for them now. I'd hate to throw it out.

I return from lurking with a whole string of questions, and a bit of a background story to help put this all in perspective (This is a MUST be done situation, not a "I just want to"). Oh and an apology for any unintentional ranting that may come up. My daughter, otherwise known as "The Tropical...

I got a small pitcher plant and adalae for one of my girlfriends family members because they seemed so interested in my plants... but this was in Tallahassee and I couldn't find any peat moss up there in small quantities. I could buy like 100 pounds of it but I only obviously needed like a few...

Dishing the Dirt on CP soils There is a lot of controversy over just which soils are best for certain types of CP's. Some growers prefer perlite, some prefer sphagnum, some plants just really don't seem to care, so exactly what is it that makes a type of soil good for CP's? Read on and...

Dishing the Dirt on CP soils There is a lot of controversy over just which soils are best for certain types of CP's. Some growers prefer perlite, some prefer sphagnum, some plants just really don't seem to care, so exactly what is it that makes a type of soil good for CP's? Read on and find...

First, you buy a large Ceph. Then you stupidly break off one of the offshoots. But because the species is so hard to come by, you pot up the offshoot and not throw it away. Three months later... :banana2:

Fairly recently I got a nepenthes hamata clone from Wistuba. I placed it into my terrarium and hoped for the best. My terrarium tends to get temperatures of 85 (with a drop to 75 at night) and 80% humidity (rising to 100% at night). It's potted in the Sarracenia NW mix of ground coconut...

What would be a good soil choice for a nepenthes sanguinea and a ventricosa? I have peat moss and perlite but I have money for other soil ingredients. My terrarium is fairly large( 3 feet long) and I am thinking about doing this...

up for trade is a large(ill count the psuedobulbs tomorrow) Max. tenuifolia orchid aka the Coconut Orchid. its alive...but isnt looking its best. PM me and we can work something out. Alex

[/IMG] [/IMG] The top photo is an Ascocentrum miniatum which I consider to be blooming size, even though it hasn't bloomed yet. It's a pretty bullet-proof species and handles wet and dry, cool and hot, but I think it wants more light than I can provide. The part you see is ~7" from wingtip...

i have a big (15-16 pseudobulb) coconut orchid i want to trade off. i have no more room for it. im looking for mainly neps but anything not on my growlist will do. make it reasonable and i will consider all offers. Alex

This is perhaps a newbie question and I apologize if this is. From reading many of the posts, it seems as though many of you have very good luck with your neps. For me, 40 - 50% of the ones I receive make it. When I get a nep, I typically buy several and get them fairly young...expecting to lose...

You know the furry faces that ned shaved? Brown and every one trys breaking them but never can? How hard do you guys thing it would be to grow one? from a coconut? Cheers

This orchid is one of my favorites. It flowers in May/June and it has a coconut fragrance. I had this plant on display at the ICPS conference for those who attended. The plant is in bloom and it is three years old. It needs lowland conditions and moderate light. I keep it damp all the time and...

I'm going to be repotting all my CP's soon (yeah I'm a little behind). Anyways I was wondering for those who buy Coconut Husk Chips where do you get them? Where's the cheapest place to buy them? I want to start using a mix of LFS/CHC. I'm done with pete/perlite, it just dries out too fast.

i went to my first Orchid show today...and it was AMAZING!! i have never seen so many orchids! i bought two. a coconut orchid(Max. Tenuifolia) and a Ghost Orchid. i was wondering what kind of care these two would require. i have the mounted ghost orchid in a terrarium under growlights. i dont...

I bought a Maxillaria tenuifolia (Coconut Orchid) last summer at the RI Orchid Show. I purchased it when it was in bloom. I was moving plants around in my lowland terrarium and found that it bloomed: I have three that I'm growing in lowland, intermediate and highland conditions. I have read...

I found some coconut husk in the pet store that is labelled for reptile bedding. Is this safe for my plants? I know some coconut husk is high in salt content, but thought if this was safe for reptiles, it should be safe for my plants. Has anyone used this or know anything else about it?

Any thoughts on the use of coco quire(sp) the stuff made out of coconut husk. It looks a lot like peat. I purchased some for starting some orchid deflaskings. I have transfered one regular into it for testing. Its suposed to hold lots of water. I know it can have salt in it if the quality isnt...

I have been using coconut husk chips as a major component in potting mix for Nepenthes and some others.  I soak the material for several days to remove unwanted dissolved salts, dust, fines, etc.  Have been discarding the chips that sink to the bottom of the container, as I have always done with...