Something that perplexes me about this, and I don't know enough chemistry
for the answer.... It seems to me that peat is pretty darned acidic, and by
adding a little bit of CaCO3, which is pretty insoluble to boot, you wouldn't
do much to change the soil acidity. So, I contemplate several options...
1)In spite of my intuition, the soil does become alkaline.
2)Instead of needing alkaline, the Pings benefit from the Ca++ ions.
3)This is something ineffectual the CPer does to please him/her self.
4)Something else is going on (aka the cover your a** possibility)
Comments on acid/base reactions, Rob M? On the usefulness of Ca++ to plants,
Mike?
>On a similar subject, do crosses with bicalcarata inherit the fangs?
Yep! Now what you need to do is cross bicalc with a Nepenthes with a
broad, shiney red lip at the entrance. (I think it's called the peristome).
That would be pretty obviously carnivorous!
>Thanks John. Barrys computations sent me into a tizzy
>of math anxiety unmatched since I took calculus. I don't
Critics, critics, critics. :)
BAMR