Re: Re: Info needed on buying CP's through the mail

dave evans (T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU)
Thu, 22 Jun 95 18:23 EDT

> From: Clarke Brunt <clarke@BRUNT.DEMON.CO.UK>
>
> The plants must have either been in pots which they don't ship, or
> been growing in trays and they just dig one out when you order one.
> Let's hope they dig one out of a tray anyway, and don't dig one out
> of some convenient CP habitat!

Very!

> Soil mixture should almost certainly be mainly peat - just the raw
> brown stuff, not premixed with fertilizer etc as a potting soil.
> You can add Perlite, or lime-free sand if you want. Some people use
> sphagnum moss, but I never have (I wouldn't know where to get it).

Clarke do you have any Sphagnum at all? If you do it is fairly easy and
quick to grow out in the right conditions. You can get tons of the
stuff. Write back if interested.

Dave Evans