Re: Heliam in peat?
Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Tue, 7 Dec 1993 09:20:34 +0800
>>OK, here's the deal. I woke up this morning and found that the sphagnum
>>that my _heliamphora_ was growing in had been bleached by something (I
>>haven't used any chemicals within at least a month on this thing). Upon
>>inspection, I discovered lots of nice fungal growth in the sphagnum and
>>decided to repot the _heliam_ in a peat/perlite mixture.
>>
>>My question is: will this work? Has anyone tried growing _Heliamphora_ in
>>this mixture? Should I add some orchid mix to loosen things up?
>>
>>I'm not really keen on mixing sphagnum and peat together (as is reccommended
>>in Pietripalo's (sp?) book. I usually just do all of one or the other.
I'm leary of non-well-drained mixes for H., although my
growing experience with this plant is limited. Maybe peat/perlite
would work just fine. People have also grown the stuff in
spaghnum/perlite mixes. An old article I read indicated that
the plants (unlike Sarracenias) do NOT like standing in water.
Perhaps with a perlite mix this would be safer....