soil

What's your favorite soil mix for Pinguiculas? I grow mostly Mexican Pings and wondering what soil mix do you use? Here are a few I have written down. I've been using #2 but want to try some other mixes. 1: 3 Parts Sand and 1 Part Peat 2: 1 Part Sand, 1 Part Perlite, 1 Part Peat 3: 1 Part...

Last winter I got quite a lot Drosophyllum seeds and put them in my special pots. In early spring the started to germinate. The first eleven I planted in a pot with soil from a very poor sandy pine forest. Lots of roots included from Vaccinium vitis-idaea for possible mycorrhiza partners. From...

I put this together a while back more as an experiment with propagating mosses than anything planned. I wasn't even sure if the method would work all that well. Basically, I just threw some clumps of about three different mosses into a food-processor with about an ounce of water and a dash of...

Hi Ladies/Gents. Thought this might interest some of you: BioArt from the BioArt Competition hosted by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). Article from Arstechnica's Website: Bioart-winners an embryonic mouse torso (Shachi Bhatt and Paul Trainor/Stowers...

Ok...someone here was nice enough to trade me some non cp seeds for some cp seeds. im a noob if you don't know. I only have a couple neps and a purp. He sent me some sundew seeds and I really want this to work. He sent drosera intermedia, d spatulata (it looks like he wrote Beenak Victoria s...

EDIT: UPDATE: 12.16.15 --- Alright it's been a minute since I've posted for help, I re-potted the thing in the moss, I rinsed the moss, and I've been watering it in a tray with distilled water. It's been in bright light in a window, it's not in a tank or anything but it's still pretty high...

A number of my Pinguicula are in Winter growth now. It's exciting to see them change. P. macrophylla <a href="http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/companionablestatic/media/9dc9f4f8-1741-4cd5-b68b-c33583c88f32_zpsrbh2euto.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img...

A couple weeks ago my Nepenthes fell in my pool as a heavy hailstorm pushed it in. It sat at the bottom of my pool for 30-40 minutes until I got home from work to fish it out. I had to clean its roots with distilled water and repot it in new soil. Over the past weeks it hasn't shown any signs of...

In addition to my Ancient Drosera Seed Project, I also acquired ~70 Drosophyllum seeds, dated 1996! Several people have told me that they have actually had higher germination rates with older Drosophyllum seed over freshly harvested seed. I guess we will just have to wait and see... That being...

Never had much luck with pings in soil. So I tried a different approach and it has paid off. Everyone show off your rocks! These guys stay on the front porch year round except when it gets below freezing. [/URL][/IMG]

A friend of mine told me baking the media will prevent algae growth and those weird pests in the soil. What temperature should I put it in the oven? How long? Thanks :D

I was watering my plants this morning and also hoped that my near-death binata would come back to life. And so, while I was watering it, a bunch of white insect ran out of the soil and tried to escape. I attempted to kill them all by drowning them and they all started flying or jumping. What...

Its the beginning of that time of year for me and ..im sure, a few others. WINTER! Though Neps dnt go dormant i do find myself dealing with the dreaded Tiny leaf syndrom during these times when the Neps get brought inside while i seal the windows on the sunporch/greenhouse for my VFTs and Dews...

I've been working more and more with soil and atmospheric sensors for my job. It's gotten me thinking more about using (cheaper!) sensors and loggers for cultivation or other fun projects. Anyone here using any sensors or controls for their grow spaces? Had any particularly good or bad...

It's some type of moss. I don't know whether to trust it or not, because I seem to have about 3 different types cropping up in different quadrants of my terrarium. This one is springing up from a bit of dry sphagnum that I buried in the soil around the roots of my D. Floating. Of course, the...

My nepenthes ampullaria pitchers seem to have some sort of discoloration issue. On all of the pitchers but one it looks almost as if something had chewed on it removing a layer of cells, it's hard to describe. I don't know if its physical ( if something actually ate the pitchers) or chemical (...

I've been doing some reading the last few days, trying to learn a bit more about mosses in general; how they grow and propagate, how much their environment affects them, etc. Turns out that most "typical" mosses do not, in fact, leech nutrients or food from the soil...at least, not...

Sorry for a second post on pests but I rather get rid of them then regret not doing anything. I have a small 2.5 gallon tank with my nepenthes ampullaria and my utricularia longifolia and apparently fungus gnat larvae are snacking on my live sphag. Usually I have no problem with fungus gnats...

Hi everyone, I am kinda new here and also about a month in keeping neps. I have 3 problems here. Country: Malaysia Day: 31 celcius Night: 24 celcius Water: Tap water (cant afford a tds reader, yet) Soil: coco peat with perlite. No mister/fogger but I mist whenever I am outside so maybe twice...

Hey TF. I picked up what is definitely a Haworthia and what I'm quite confident is some variety of cooperi. It appears to have a little etiolation. It does not seem to be taking water currently. The leaves are not turgid, however, they do not display wrinkling. It does have roots, and is...