My grao is looking like trash, I need to do something about it. The leaves never seem to fully unroll and the tentacles look fried despite high humidity.
Here is my plant currently. Last summer when the photoperiod was longer the leaves were completely red.
I've heard that yes, D. graomogolensis is self-compatible, but they are not prolific seed-setters nor do they flower regularly it seems. Also, I've heard reports that this plant prefers growing in sphagnum moss mixes if temperatures get warm (my own plant seems to concur), and I try to avoid feeding solid foods to my South American plants as the leaves seem to go bad easily. Liquid fertilizers are better tolerated.
That could be what happened to me then, plant is young. Could have used too much beta pellet sprinkles on the plant and bam shocked the plant a bit. The plant still keeps growing deformed burnt looking leaves but just now noticed one nice green looking leaf. Maybe it will recover, I definitely won't use the beta food again and I'll try liquid fertilizer instead. Do you recommend orchid or some other stuff?
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Personally, I use the Maxsea fertilizer on everything, but any good orchid fertilizer probably works....
I don't spray, I use a pipette to drop it on the leaves, so as to avoid most risk of it getting into the soil and either messing up roots or causing algae to grow (neither is a very good thing).
If I get some on the soil I just flush it with water. Though a pipette would probably work a lot better, with less hassle.