media

Considering capensis seems to be considered by almost everyone as one the easiest Drosera to keep, it is rather discouraging that I seem to be having such a problem with them. So here's the story... Got one in trade last year. Had it planted in a 50/50 mix of coir/coarse sand & kept it...

:-D I hated to take a chance on buying these alleged Carnivores from Europe but took the gamble and won. They got here in 6 days... bought seeds months and months ago of Regia from an eBay Seller in Great Britian and it took 3 months to arrive and the Seller mailed them immediately upon closing...

Hello all, I intend to do as much propagation as I can in order to reinvigorate and expand my collection instead of buying new material. This provides me with incentive to experiment with propagation techniques and growing methods. Today I walked to my local hydroponics store and purchased 14...

At this point I've accumulated enough plants to where individual trays are no longer efficient / feasible, so I've moved several plants into communal trays. Some (most) of the plants are recently re-potted into new media, so there's plenty of run-off and leeching: the water can turn yellow...

I've always been interested in taking the superstition and mystery out of the cultivation of CPs. In the past I've had the opportunity to do so from a cultivation angle, now I have more-quantitative tools available. I'll often see discussions of old media coming up. Many repot religiously to...

So, I have been interested in tissue culturing Nepenthes for awhile, but have never really had the facilities or skills to do it. I now have a tissue culture lab with available chemicals and PGR's that I work in and am experienced with sterile technique and media composition. The only thing I'm...

Have any of you used Peat Granules as a growing media? http://www.valuepetsupplies.com/fluval-peat-granules-500-gram-17-6-oz.html?tab=review I recently read it works well for D. indica. I have some seed and need to get it sown.

In my ongoing effort to clean up as well as free up some space, I realized that I have two utric hybrids that have not been adequately shared. - U. nephrophylla x U. nelumbifolia - U. nephrophylla x U. reniformis f. courte These are crosses I've made in the past 2 years. The flowers for both...

The developing tips of the leaves have been dying off. Not sure what the issue is. Plant did well for me last summer and even all winter long. Actually bloomed for me over the winter. It is located in front of an unobstructed SE exposure sliding glass doors. Last summer I did have it...

I decided to re-purpose one of my many empty aquariums (I'm actually an old hand at Terrarium building) into my first ever plant terrarium. I read about other people's projects and thought about many different opinions, while also trying to stay with the KISS method. This is what I came up...

I thought it would be neat if people traded their extra plants but made it a surprise to the receiver. I have a few young ones of my own which should be ready later in the year for shipping, but by then I might forget about this idea. So here are the rules. 1. No revealing or hinting at what...

so this is my plan, let me know if any of it is a bad idea going to use chopped dead lfs in a clay pot which will be sitting in water similar to this http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq3190.html but with water around the pot rather than soil so the clay will soak up the water like a self...

so this is my plan, let me know if any of it is a bad idea going to use chopped dead lfs in a clay pot which will be sitting in water similar to this http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq3190.html but with water around the pot rather than soil so the clay will soak up the water like a self...

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I just scored these from the seed bank. They were shipped today. I have not had a TON of experience with germinating drosera. I have done sessifolia capensis and probably more (I just haven't been growing carnivores long enough to germinate a ton of seeds. I have germinated some either...

Since i grow all my neps indoors, I usually squirt a bit of diluted fertilizer inside the pitchers when I feed with maxsea or growmore orchid fertilizer. I was wondering if anyone has tried dropping a pellet of Osmocote in the pitchers and what were the results? Positive/negative in plant...

So. 60+mph gusts all day and night yesterday. Almost tornado force. I live on a hill with no tree cover. I'm at work--came home to find my greenhouse up in the air almost vertical. Greenhouse door wrenched open and turned it into a giant polycarb tumbleweed. Lifted off in one piece--with the...

I was potting some Darlingtonia tonight and was playing with the level of the rhizomes in relation to the media surface. How deeply do most position their plants, and to what depth does the plant naturally gravitate?

Hi everyone I was attempting to re-pot a Sarracenia, however the media mix did not feel like that of a VFT mix. Is VFT mix ok... to use.... Regards Noddy

A few months ago I immersed 3 pots of D. capensis for a few days, because of aphids. I replaced the media, entirely and all plants recovered and I am now seeing evidence of aphids again! I did make up a new batch of Neem...