Ping Question

[nepenthes_ak]

Just a baby, but Ive had this guy for about 6 months...and He has struggled to survive. Any sudgestions on care? It is a mexican ping and I think its a P. moranensis. I did get a P. clyoseta with it but It died! :'(

any sudgestions on how to care for it? The size of it now is a way over grown 1mm!!! hehehehehe

Thanks!

 

[jimscott]

I have baby pings (moranensis, lauenae, etc...) sitting atop moist, but not wet LFS. They are growing

 

[nepenthes_ak]

Im afraid to move this though...

 

[Pyro]

I have to agree with Jim. Move it to a bed of moist (get it wet and then squeeze until no water comes out) milled sphag. If you can put it in a covered container as well that would be even better.

 

[nepenthes_ak]

by milled to you mean Chopped up? I will move it soon.

 

[Pyro]

Yeah, or you can just take some dried stuff and just rub it really hard so that if falls apart to the consistancey of sawdust. That is what I do

 

[Clint]

i put it in the VitaMix blender

 

[jimscott]

Quote[/b] (JustLikeAPill @ July 13 2006,12:44)]i put it in the VitaMix blender

LOL! reminds me of an old SNL skit, involving a blender and fish - Bass-o-matic:

Bass-o-matic

Mexican Pings seem to be the easiest, most forgiving CP's to just pick up and move. I do it all the time to pluck leaf cuttings.

 

[nepenthes_ak]

wow. that poor fish! lol I wonder who drank it?

Me? I use ulu blades to cut my sphagnum moss! Now once it gets bigger should I just transplant it into the pot it was in?

 

[Clint]

wow dude. usually when i have a single plant that small that doesn't do anything for six months i throw it away

 

[7santiago]

That is sooooooooooooo tiny!!! To think i was going to buy those seeds I saw on ebay!!!!!!!!

good luck

 

[nepenthes_ak]

it was orginaly about 3 times the size... I feel so horrible.. This is whats left

 

[Joseph Clemens]

I have many Mexican Pinguicula and my conditions are not exactly, "just like their natural habitat", so when I am propagating I frequently have those that, for whatever reason, are slower than the rest, sometimes even as small and slow as the one you show in this thread. Sometimes I just dump them, but more often I just keep transplanting them and most times they eventually find conditions that suit them and they take off.

 

[nepenthes_ak]

well the only reason this one sticks around is cause its my only ping!

 

[BigCarnivourKid]

I've had pings that size before. It seems to take them forever to do anything, then bang they take off.