Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:53:52 -0500 (EST) From: Lumraptor <lumraptr@indy.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1486$foo@default> Subject: Re: new member, droseras, nepenthes
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Charles Bigelow wrote:
> I'm wondering why I lost the rosetted varieties. All the outdoor Droseras
> were in a medium of 1/2 peat and 1/2 washed sand, and the pots were kept in
> saucers of rain water or reverse-osmosis purified water. They seemed fine
> in summer and fall.
>>>> Did I maybe keep them too wet in the cool rainy winter weather?<<<<<<
From my past expirience, I would say this is the case.
Do they need a different growing medium? Does anyone have any
> suggestions for better culture? Or of species that might do well in my
> climate?
>
I would suggest they be planted in sphagnum moss. Dried is fine.
> -- Chuck Bigelow
>
> ps: There is one species of Drosera native to Hawaii, D. anglica, found in
> the Alaka'i swamp on Kauai, but I haven't seen it in the wild.
Have yopu been to the Kauai swamp?
-Kevin
"Life is light that shines in the Darkness"
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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