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Very nicely done Av! You've had extremely fast growth compared to mine, and your pings now are larger than my mother plants! Good growing, I told you they were not all that difficult .
Hmm. . . After seeing these results, I could use some growing tips. How are you caring for them.
Media?
Watering?
Light?
I only have one left, P. moranensis and it is a little one. I hope that I can grow it up like yours. I have killed 3 Pings so far. Please share your tips.
crissy or jim would be a much better person to ask... but FWIW i used 100% APS, trich and daily waterings... lighting is T5 with the distance to bulb about 18"
feedme - For my media I am using aquatic plant soil. I had a lot of problems with the pings crashing using the 50/50 mix of peat/perlite (or sand in the place of perlite). They would seem to be doing fine then just quickly decline. I found out it was due to root rot. The aquatic plant soil has fixed this issue in my particular conditions.
I use those shoe box containers that you can get at Walmart for under $1.00. I have multiple pots of pings in each one. The shoe boxes act as my 'trays'.
As far as watering goes, I use the tray method. I don't keep them as wet as my sundews. I put about 1/4" of water in the tray and let it go awhile before watering again. I wait for the water to be totally gone from the tray and wait about 2-4 days before watering again. You can look at the APS and tell if it's wet or dry. I try to wait for it to start turning back to a light brown (wet will be dark brown) before watering again. The way the APS works, I don't think it's really necessary to wait that length of time before watering again, it would probably be fine to do it as soon as the tray dries. I may just be overly paranoid due to losing so many pings in the past.
My lighting is by two four foot long shop light fixtures. They are T12s. I have a total of four 34-watt bulbs over them. The lights are about 5 1/2" away from the bulbs. This is enough to give them a nice pink coloration. I could drop the lights down some more, but I have a few taller Drosera that need to be moved somewhere else. I should also note that my lights are lined with mylar, and I have mylar on three sides of my grow rack.
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