As a new member of this discussion group I want to say HELLO to
all of you. First of all excuse my mistakes in writing English. I
learned it in school twelve years ago but I've forgotten a lot of
that stuff.
My interest in CP's began one year ago. We needed a few plants
for your office. I don't know why, but I got a VFT. I put it on
the windowsoll and everything was fine. One month! Then the plant
seemed to be ill and I bought a book about carnivorous plant
hoping to get informations to help the plant. I realized that
almost everything was wrong: humidity, mixture, water.
Reading the book, the virus CP attacked my. Today I have some
more VFT's (the first one became healthy after changing the
environment and still lives among them), S. alata, S. psittacina,
S. purpurea, Cephalotus and D. capensis. I grow them in a large
aquarium with a mix of natural and fluorescent light.
The plants seem to like the conditions and do well.
But.... I have a litte problem.
While reading books, scanning WWW-pages and reading your articles
in this group I as a beginner get more and more confused about
feeding the plants. There are a lot of opinions. "No food",
"Maybe food" and "Yes, food ". ?????
I did not feed them in the past and the plants live. Do I have to
feed to avoid killing them in the future? Can I get better
results in growing with feeding them?
I would be glad to get a few informations about that theme.
Best wishes,
Martin.
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Martin Grambow
grambow@planar.de