Re: pots and media

Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Tue, 20 Jul 93 09:27:15 PDT

>>I am wondering what types of pots and media is being used in growing your
>>collections. Myself I use a coarse peat, sand, and either pumic or
>>perlite in my medias. I also use plastic pots sitting in trays of water.

I've tried to converge on a couple of simple medias:

Nepenthes: 1/1/1 - peat/perlite/fine-orchid-bark plastic pots,
top watered occasionally, no tray method.

Tropical Pings - 45/45/10 - vermiculite/perlite/peat. Some people
leave the peat out. plastic pots, tray watering. Since
this media has no food value for plants, I mist the plants
with a weak miracid solution every week or two.

Queensland sundews - live spaghnum. plastic pots. tray method
only for D. adele & D. prolifera. I water schizandra
sparingly.

Heliamphora (recently acquired) - life spaghnum, no tray watering.

tuberous drosera - very sandy peat mixes. maybe 70/30. tray watering
when they're not dormant.

nearly everything else - 50/50 peat/perlite with top dressing of
plain peat for neatness. tray watering.

For seedlings mixes vary, but I try to use straight peat.