Re: More about Darlingtonia media/reply

From: Andrew Bate (cp@jedi.clara.co.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 09:58:33 PDT

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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:58:33 +0100
From: Andrew Bate <cp@jedi.clara.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: More about Darlingtonia media/reply

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 04:42:48 -0700 (PDT), Phil Wilson wrote:

>We get similar conditions here in the UK and I too find that
>Darlingtonia grows far better in a more open mix. I usually achieve this
>by adding orchid bark to a mixture of peat and perlite, though I have
>also had some very good results using pure live sphagnum.

Well, here's another UK recipe for you... I grow mine in pure sphagnum
only and have them sitting in water so the sphagnum is sometimes really
waterlogged and they grow like a weed... :-)

Andrew

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