perlite

Just repotted my first cephalotus, from Borneo exotics, and potted a few leaf pulls I was lucky enough to receive from RSS. Based on what I've read, I used a mixture about equal parts pumice, perlite and sand mixed about 50/50, and peat. Does anyone have any cautions or suggestions? I...

I have been on planning on changing my mexican Pinguicula soil to a pure mineral base. I am currently using the sarracenia northwest mix which contains sand, peat and perlite. It just seems a little too wet. After reading as many posts I can on this forum on pure mineral mixes I am still...

I have a large Enfant Terrible in an eight inch pot. It's completely colonized the pot since spring '14 and I was hoping it would flower but it hasn't yet. The potting media is a blend of long fiber sphagnum, perlite, and orchid bark. The pot is normally in my grow chamber 6" away from two t5...

Where do you guys get the peat moss, perlite, sphagnum moss, or sand that you use for your plants? I don’t want to end up buying the wrong stuff on accident.

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I can only write about what works for me in my particular conditions in the Pacific Northwest, results may vary for someone else. They are outside in full direct sun 8-10 hours a day throughout the growing season, from about April/May to October/November depending on outside temps. Outside they...

I will be re-potting my Nepenthes soon because most of them are showing high pH stress from back before I got my water pH under control by using RO water and additional treatment with hydroponic pH-down solution. Is there any disadvantage (besides cost) to just growing everything in long-fibered...

I trimmed my Disterigma rimbachii a few months ago and the cuttings all took, so it's time to get rid of a few. I'm offering here one rooted cutting. It's about 5" high and, as you can see, has new growth. Shipping is on me, so this is totally free! Offer open to continental US. Winner will be...

**I will preface this by saying I am not an expert, I have only been growing CPs for 5 years (but only really got into them in the last year) and there are many people here with vastly more experience. This is a summary of my experience and what I've learned about these horrid creatures. If you...

So I have had a P. cyclosecta for about a year now. Below is a picture of what it looks like now, and as you can see it is lacking the more rounded leaves and has very little blue color to it. I grow it in a mix of peat, sand, and perlite with the top half inch being just sand. I use the tray...

Recently I received a drosera regia root cutting and potted it up in a mixture of 1:1 perlite dead LFS. The plant has not done well in the 9 days that I have had it since shipping. Its temps are 82 high and about 70 low. Humidity is probably 75 % minimum (The hygrometer I had broke.) I have had...

Saw them at my local nursery. It says natural and organic, whatever that means. Are this safe? HELP!!!! here's the break down of the material

so i went to both stores, only carry miracle grow perlite, (wt hell?) any other substitute or brands that this ridiculous stores carry? working on nepenthes soil here. Thanks guyS!!!!

I had a pot of Cephalotus, Drosera, and Pinguicula. It worked well for a year but started getting too crowded and I figured it was time to plant the Cephalotus by itself. This is the before picture (Cephalotus, Drosera, and Pinguicula all growing in same pot. Moss is starting to crowd out...

Received this plant about 4 days ago. Also I"m curious is it necessary that I put the moss on top? I did that because I was concerned about soil temperature. USDA zone 9B Northern California July average temperature day 75-85 night 55-60 July average humidity day 20-50% night 50-80%...

Top is. Cephalotus. And bottom is dioneae m. Ginormous. And im keeping them in a kfc go cup with holes on the bottom and filled with perlite. The go cup with its top holds great humidity. Wish me luck!

I have a purple pitcher plant in full sun, small tray of water and 3x3x4 inch pot. After it got here, most of the pitchers where dead so I cut it back save one. It put out two new ones since I had it, but they are only half the size of the old one and are green rather than red. Should it be...

A few weeks ago, my Drosophyllum died when its pot was tipped over by a vandal. In the course of trying to repot it, I saw that the peat pot that it came in had not broken down even thought the plant had already been in a larger pot for six months, and that the soil inside the peat pot was very...

I'm having an issue with several of my vfts. The plants are growing in a mixture of peat moss, perlite and sand. They get at least 8 hours of sunlight a day and are watered with distilled water, not too much water, just a bit in the bottom of the saucer and they never dry out. It's hard to tell...

I really gotta stop coming up with weird titles lol. Anyway I just performed a mass leaf pulling on all of my pings this Friday (06/27/14) and thought I would start a development thread incase anyone was interested. I am too lazy to retype all the pings so I am just copying the description...