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hey guys i was wondering what would be a good soil mix using the following. This is all im able to get so nothing else. Orchid bark Fine to medium chunks of coconut husk Peat Perlite Polystyrene Washed sand Thank you

Man I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I figured it was time for a good re-potting. At the ICPS/NECPS show I removed a few plants for trade with some people but wasn't able to get the full root out for each plant, now I know why. The pot they have been growing in for a few years...

perlite vs vermiculite what are the differences between the 2? both seem to aid in drainage...does verm float like perlite does?

Hi everybody! I have a P. moctezumae that I purchased online (along with a P. moranensis) that is not doing well. The P. moranensis is doing okay, (although it is not thriving by any means) but the moctezumae is actively dying. It arrived with three one inch long skinny leaves. The one leaf...

I have had this plant for about 2 months from a small division I ordered online. It has not progressed at all, while the others I got in the same shipment are doing awesome. Every so often it will send up a new shoot, and I will be over joyed, only to watch it turn black at the tip at about one...

Hello! I received a little g.aurea from czplants and i try to see some sign of life... The plant is in 60% peat 20% perlite 20% sand, at 85% humidity. Temps day: 25C-30C night 18C-22C (kind of intermedi£/highland terra) Anything wrong ?? Its my first genlisea :/ Maiden

I got this plant last summer and all it did last year was produce about five 2" pitchers. So this year I was plesantly surprised about how large the pitchers are!! Its been growing in a 1:1:1:1 peat, orchidbark, LFS, coarse, perlite mix without any special treatment out on my patio so I'm very...

My Pinguicula have been in full bloom this year. I decided to mess around a bit with pollination. I really didn't know what I was doing. I basically just used an old flower stalk from a Drosera, colored the tip black with a Sharpie, found the pollen and rubbed it around the inside of some...

Howdy. I went to Home Depot this afternoon picking up some supplies for tomorrow's repotting session. I needed perlite but the only perlite they offered was Miracle Gro perlite. Is this perlite safe for CPs? Many years ago I used Miracle Gro peat moss and it killed my plants because it had...

I got this orchid from the clearance section of Lowes Can she bring it back? by Thagirion3, on Flickr I wanted it because I've been looking for a yellow one but was worried how bad of shape it was. It had been dried out in full sun. Dried and no soil by Thagirion3, on Flickr No soil. If it...

I've owned this plant for nearly three months now and while it has put out a lot of new leaves with nice reddish hues, it has only produced one tiny new pitcher. This plant remains outdoors and receives about six hours of sun a day. I lightly fertilize the plant once a month and I also placed...

I'm a bit worried about my H. Minor. I think I made a major screw up. To give a brief summary of its condition. The plant was purchased from the FTS and from my understanding, it was raised in a greenhouse with relatively low humidity conditions. I have it an open container, sitting on a...

soo.. Today i decided that I was going to take my old squat-pot that I used to use as a container pond and start making it into a bog!! so I headed to a local nursery and grabbed some sphagnum peat and some pearlite, mixed them, added washed sand to the bottom of the container, and loaded on the...

Hello All, I would like to giveaway some pings. These species and perfect for those beginning to grow both Temperate-subtropical and Tropical Pinguicula. I have these plants growing in little clumps which will be divided into two (2) packages. Below are the pics of offered plants: P...

My N. x 'Ventrata' got a bit too dry, dried out completely, despite the high humidity in the terrarium. The mix doesn't hold water at all... It's like some weird dusty stuff that just drains water right through it, with lots of bark mixed in. Going to repot it in some sphagnum, I have enough to...

Can someone tell me some info on the type of soil my vft is in. I've only used peat and perlite. They weren't lying when they said small plant, this little guy is a B-52. :-(

Hello! I just repotted a couple of cephs, but I'm worried that I didn't make an airy enough mix. I was too lazy to actually measure the amount of stuff I put into the mix. :P It's sand, peatmoss, and perlite. It doesn't look airy enough to me, but let me know what you think. And if I...

I saw today that my Darlingtonia pitchers were slanted sideways and on further inspection found that they have gone flacid (for lack of a better word) and are sligthly browning. This has happened to both new pitchers that have developed since it woke up from dormancy and the one developing at...

Hello Terraforums, In my time at my university, I have watched the bog garden in the school's conservatory dwindle in health and fade. As an underclassmen, all I could do is try to weed sadly, or maybe pick off a few mealy bugs. At the same time, I have been fortunate enough to have been...

I wander around general gardening blogs a lot, and one of the topics that comes up every now and then is hypertufa, the super-light-weight concrete substitute that people shape into various kinds of custom containers for their plants. Looking at a typical recipe (this one from Wikipedia), it...