osmocote

Normally, I do weekly sprays of a weak orchid fertilizer but I'm pretty leary about using ground fertilizers. About 6 months ago though, I decided to put about 3 pellets of osmocote in each pot and though I have no controls, it didn't seem to harm them either. Tonite, I re-fertilized all the...

Hi, I'm sure that everyone here has either read or believes that fertilisers are harmful to carnivorous plants. It's often cited that plants developed the ability to catch prey as their natural environment was/is devoid of nutrients; however, this doesn't necessarily mean that they are...

I have today off and thought I would snap a few shots: Lowes rescue Sarracenia rubra after 2 months out of "the tomb": <a href="http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm112/Baylorguy81/?action=view&current=DSC01654.jpg" target="_blank"><img...

Well, here are some of my neps. This is a chunk of my personal collection, in my mini-greenhouse in my back yard. Hopefully it worked, i gotta compete with some of the other pic threads! :-O Ok, heres my big breeding stock N. truncata. Truncs are my favorite nepenthes... 16" ruler...

Hi, Long time sonce I posted here :) On another forum Geoff Mansell was asking about our N. rajah. Here are a few photos. All the plants are from TC from the usual 4 clones. They have been in TC for around 20 years and no mutations (so far). We don't know yet whether they are male or female...

My Nepenthes Ventricosa seem to be having a hard time acclimating. Is there anything I can do/should do in order to make their acclimation faster and easier for the plant? I do have, I think, three new leaves coming up. I just thought I would post to see what you guys think. This is my first...

Hello to all! Boys...tomorrow 19 will be my birthday and I want also to make something nice for my Nepenthes that lies into my terrarium! CAN I water on tghe leafes and in substrate some micro elements diluited in osmotic water? Just to be clear, I am NOT talking about giving Osmocote or a...

I think some of you remember the pics of my U. livida making all those flowers and spreading so dang quickly in just 3 months. So, I thought that this was because of the little osmocote pellets in my peat, since I found some while potting up other plants. Today, when I was dividing it, I found a...

Hello to everyone! My same villosa that was outside home end November 2005 while it was snowing and that now lives in terrarium has developed a strage leaf....or...? The plant during those 3 months has grown very nice and quickly and always more better ( just check the leafes and the last...

N. emmarene (khasiana x ventricosa; aka N."Savannah Rose") N. mirabilis - hungry pitcher. That's nectar produced by the pitcher on the peristome. N. tobaica x thorelli - notice the larger newer pitcher. It happened after fertiliser was added. N. gracilis - local maroon. Same effect...

Hello fellow CPers. My Nepenthes hamata suffered a week-long drought over the summer last year. This caused the leaves to grow smaller, yet as strong as the previous ones. It's growth of rate wasn't as impressive as when I had first received it, and the pitchers' size had obviously been greatly...

OK TIME TO GIVE RESULTS!!!! When I received  this Nepenthes reinwardtiana from a dear friend it was given to me as a "mission impossible" quest,but after several months of keeping open eyes on this dwarf plant of more than one year old I came to some results.... Since the plant didn't react to...

Got really bored today and decided to take pics of my plant collection. Some of them even turned out OK . This is my N. 'Judith Finn'. I got it a year ago last April. It has grown at a steady rate inspite of me forgetting to water it occasionally. and a picture of a couple pitchers. One of...

I like to share with all of you an experiment I'm running for the last 4 months. In this experiment I had 10 Nepenthes with my normal mix of peat moss and perlite And 10 Nepenthes plants in peat moss perlite and Osmocote (10 pellets in each pot of 1.5 Liter) Both groups of plants were the same...

Howdy: A call for assistance to all the osmocote users out there. Locally, we have three formulations available. Triple 14, good for 3-4 mos; 19-6-12, good for 3-4 mos; and 24-4-8, good for 8-9 mos (all at ca. 24 degree C). I was wondering which formula you folks favor, and whether anyone has...

My parents as well as I am are mystified on how well this N. bicalcarata 'red form' has done in the small (now lol) space it occupies in the corner of the house near the radiator. It was purchased on 7/28/02 from Mike Catalani on my visit to him. I am sure it will be much larger this summer and...

Man I get wonderful Christmas presents early! hehe N. veitchii Bareo Highland newest pitcher. N. aristolochioides newest pitcher I personally think the N. veitchii photo is very cool, if you look close enough you can see the first polymorphic juvenile pitcher of the basal rosette. That...

Hello all!! I though it would be fun to have a Nepenthes quiz, not to test your wisdom of this wonderful genus, but to see how different people take care of their plants!! So to help me compile the research, if a question asks you to specify, Please do so alongside the answer under the number...

Hi, how do you fertilize or feed you tuberous drosera? I know some growers that feed with normal milk. I tried that and it worked well. Has anyone tried artificial slow-release fertilizer like Osmocote? Good growing, Jan

Few pics! Big N. truncata in ghouse. N. diatas "meadow form" from Rob. N. x rokko CSFU ghouse cutting upper pitcher. N. burbidgeae N. glabrata from Andreas Wistuba. N. rajah and reaction to Osmocote fertilzer and higher light levels in ghouse. N. maxima from Jeff Shafer.