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S. x Catesbaei flower bud
S. x Catesbaei flower, nice! Kinda musty smelling though
I made a bog garden out of a big flower pot
There is a one inch PVC pipe for watering and checking the water level. I sawed lots of slots in the part of the pipe underground for the water to move around. While holding the pipe in place I scooped in straight perlite till it was 6" deep, then mixed 2:1 peat/perlite for the next 8", and topped it with 6" of straight peat moss. There's a S. 'Tarnok', S. purpurea, 2 small VFT 'Dente', and two extra D. capensis in there so far. I want to get some hardy sundews for it yet, and another clone or two of VFT. When winter comes I'll drag it into a corner of the unheated garage and hope everything lives
S. x Catesbaei flower, nice! Kinda musty smelling though
I made a bog garden out of a big flower pot
There is a one inch PVC pipe for watering and checking the water level. I sawed lots of slots in the part of the pipe underground for the water to move around. While holding the pipe in place I scooped in straight perlite till it was 6" deep, then mixed 2:1 peat/perlite for the next 8", and topped it with 6" of straight peat moss. There's a S. 'Tarnok', S. purpurea, 2 small VFT 'Dente', and two extra D. capensis in there so far. I want to get some hardy sundews for it yet, and another clone or two of VFT. When winter comes I'll drag it into a corner of the unheated garage and hope everything lives
Thanks Maiden, it's seed grown from ICPS, pretty good color on it so far.
I've been real busy last month building a new orchidarium, getting plants outside, and propagating!. One thing I did that I thought you'd all like to see are my schmancy sarr pots. I needed to pot up three Sarracenia divisions a few weeks ago. They'd been sitting in the fridge waiting for warm weather. I decided the big store-bought ones are too expensive, and hard to find ones without drainage holes, so I set out to make my own. I got free 30 gallon barrels from work and thought they'd make perfect sarr pots
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I cut three in half and used the bottoms for pots. For easy watering and level checking I cut pieces of 1" pvc so they were just a bit longer than the pots were tall, and cut a bunch of slots in the sides.
I filled the bottom third with perlite, the middle with peat/perlite, and the top third with straight peat.
I had three plants, a Scarlet Belle, xCatesbaei, and Doodlebug.
And here is one planted up.
All three.
They've been working great so far. I can just peer down the tube to see how much water is in them, and stick the watering hose in it and not disturb the sphagnum on top.
I've been real busy last month building a new orchidarium, getting plants outside, and propagating!. One thing I did that I thought you'd all like to see are my schmancy sarr pots. I needed to pot up three Sarracenia divisions a few weeks ago. They'd been sitting in the fridge waiting for warm weather. I decided the big store-bought ones are too expensive, and hard to find ones without drainage holes, so I set out to make my own. I got free 30 gallon barrels from work and thought they'd make perfect sarr pots
. 
I cut three in half and used the bottoms for pots. For easy watering and level checking I cut pieces of 1" pvc so they were just a bit longer than the pots were tall, and cut a bunch of slots in the sides.
I filled the bottom third with perlite, the middle with peat/perlite, and the top third with straight peat.
I had three plants, a Scarlet Belle, xCatesbaei, and Doodlebug.
And here is one planted up.
All three.
They've been working great so far. I can just peer down the tube to see how much water is in them, and stick the watering hose in it and not disturb the sphagnum on top.
