Re: nepenthes fertilising
Andreas Wistuba (A.Wistuba@DKFZ-Heidelberg.DE)
Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:15:15 GMT+1
> Yes, in the beginning I have been trying to poke wingless drosophylla
> flies in the pitchers, till I decided to try liquid fertiliser. Now I
> use diluted orchid fertiliser, both in the greenhouse and on the
> plants coming out of tissue culture. Pitcher growth is super, and the
> plants trive. I think we are over-caring too much with nepenthes, and
> statements like /* they don't take fertiliser, insecticide, low
> humidity...*/ date back from the days when only a small amount of
> nepenthes were in culture.
Light dilutions of Miracid are a very good choice. I use it with
Nepenthes and Heliamphora without trouble since I have no time to
feed all my plants grown from tissue culture manually.....
Andreas
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