Food Sources for my Cps

[AlmondMO]

I have been trying several different feeding sources for my Cps. 1: BLOODWORMS: I tried grinding up the bloodworms to a powder and then trying to get the right consistency to feed the plants using a toothpick to get the right amount of food on them. 2: FLIGHTLESS FRUIT FLIES: I found that the best way is to put them in the fridge and then once they got a little chill on them to take them out of the culture container and put them in a container to pull from to feed them to the Cps. So far, this has worked much better than my first method of shaking out the container onto the plants...what a disaster and overfeed. 3.FOLAR: really like the MAXSEA but find that using a needle dropper or syringe is the best to control the drop size and not keep dumping fertilizer into the soil. I have tried spraying a mist across the plant not into the dirt and that works also. This is old hat for everyone else but for others new to the hobby just sharing.

 

[AlmondMO]

Meal worms seem ok, but leave their hard shell behind. I take it out of the VFT to get it ready for the next feed.

 

[bluemax]

I have settled on the Maxsea, as you said. I'm told that foliar orchid fertilizers work well, too. I use a hypodermic syringe for the sundews, which is much faster and less work than it sounds. It leaves the leaves (ha!) looking clean and healthy. Thanks, Peter D'Amato!

 

[AlmondMO]

Excellent, the fruit flies do make the leaves appear dirty