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Hello every one
I am from India, I little bit new to Carnivorous Plants, I have some sundew seedlings, looking forward to make new friends n learn from this forum. thank you |
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hello, nice to have you join this forum =D
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Welcome....Never really heard of many people from india growing CPs....Anyway welcome...
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Thanks alot friends,
I know there arent many carnivorous plants enthusiast from India, but i think it is catching up, I have already found 3-4 people from India, who are interested in CPs, n 2 of them are growing vfts n sarcena too. Well one of the biggest problem we are facing is getting a right growing media, we dont get sphagnum moss in India, n only peat which is available is coco peat which is high on salts or minerals. I am trying to find out some silica sand or qurtz to grow CPs in. I have already lost 6 sundew plants due to not having right growing media n i dont wana loose more, If possible friends can you please advice me what you people can think of growing cps in except sphagnum moss. thanks alot |
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Welcome to PetPitcher.
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Hi neper,
Good to have you with us... hopefully we all can learn from each other. About coco peat, I have used those coco peat in brick form that was packed with clear plastic. I'm sure it's from India because I got it from my Indian neighbour which he imported it. I haven't encounter any problem using it on nepenthes (never try it on other CPs though). If you can find coco chips, it's also a good media to be use for nepenthes. Hope this help. |
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Hi,
even i am using cocopeat as of now in which i am growing 1 vft, well it is doing fine, but i know it will start giving problem soon, i have tds meter n it is showing 200ppm which i dont think is good for vfts , it may work out for nepenthes i think because they can survive in this much of mineral, I am also having one nep, which i have planted in mixture of irish peat moss: vermiculite : perlite(it is manufactured by some company at our place) n it is showing 100ppm n nepenthes is doing fine. But last month i lost almost 6-8 sundew because of so much salt in the media, people sayd that to grow vft n sundew tds of media n water should be at or below 50ppm. So thats why i am trying to find something else to grow cps in. thanks |
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I am using coco peat on most of my CP's and I have to say that everything is doing quite well with it,
except for the VFT which I dont attribute to the cocopeat but to my neglect, Anyways Im growing Drosera, Sarracenia and Nepenthes in coco peat but you have to repot once the media has broken. Maybe you should wash/soak your cocopeat first before use. How do you grow your Sundews and which Sundews are you growing? are you using straight coco peat or are you mixing it with other media like perlite or charcoal etc? Oh and a warm welcome. |
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I am using coco peat on most of my CP's and I have to say that everything is doing quite well with it,
except for the VFT which I dont attribute to the cocopeat but to my neglect, Anyways Im growing Drosera, Sarracenia and Nepenthes in coco peat but you have to repot once the media has broken. Maybe you should wash/soak your cocopeat first before use. How do you grow your Sundews and which Sundews are you growing? are you using straight coco peat or are you mixing it with other media like perlite or charcoal etc? Oh and a warm welcome Thank you, well i soaked coco peat 10 times before using it n still it is having 200ppm tds. right now the seedlings which i have is either cape sundew or spathulata well i think it is spathulata only (while sowing i mixed the seeds n it was lil bit hard to know what it is), right now the seedlings are in the irish peat mix, they are doing fine, but last month when i used same mixture for plants thye died in a week. It could be possible that sunburn can be the other reason but people are advising me to first get the correct growing media n then grow sundew. Well the mixture i am having is having perlite, but there is nothing extra added in cocopeat. |
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I grew spathulata before (until the birds ate them), and they are doing quite well in straight coco peat. What kind of water are you using? |
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well earlier i was using distilled water which was later found to be fake when i bought tds meter n it showed 100-110ppm, as of now i am using rain water n finding some other brand of distilled water since i will be running out of rain water soon.
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yeah, i tried it but the tds of water from aircon was showing 90-100ppm,
i think some metals must be getting mixed when water is getting condensed on the coils |
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Well I dont have a TDS meter, all I know is that my CPs are loving it. I hope someone more experienced can help you out.
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well, the tap water tds is 90-100 ppm,
n rain water is 10-15ppm, the distilled water i use to buy was fake n i think it was filled with tap water only thats why it use to show 100ppm-110ppm |
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vaibhav,did u use the car battery water distilled water or drinkable distilled water?
if this brand is available,use "Spritzer".i use distilled water from that brand.my plants do well with it. |
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Hariss,
we only get battery distilled water here, well if u r talking about bottled drniking water here it is called mineral water n i didnt check it or used it yet because it will be having minerals as well as i think some chlorine, but i will check it for sure n see what results will be, so can we add water with chlorine in it? thanks alot |
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vaibhav,u must get drinkable bottled DISTILLED water.maybe thats what cause ur sundews to die.batery car water is mix with iron.i tell moree after this.bye.contact me on FTC.com
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May be you really need to stick on using rain water...as it may be the best solution for it, me too using rain water as well, will only use tap water if i had use out of the rain water...
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Neper,
Worse case, get yourself a RO unit. |
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Thanks friend,
i will definetly use rain water as of now till i run out of it, meanwhile i will check the mineral water available at local departmental shops n if it will be fine i will leave it open for a day to clearoff chlorine, Well regarding getting RO system there is 2 major problems, first is the ro system we get is having a extra cylinder of mineral attached to it inside which adds minerals to it tomake it drinkable so i am not sure if it can be used or not( RO wihtout mineral would be available but it will take some time to find) second is that i am with my parents n not employed so it will be hard for me to get a RO system since it is little bit expensive, but i can surely save money for it but will take some time. I will try to find some water source so that i wont face problem for long run. thanks friends |
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hope our suggestion will solve your problem, there are another hint for you from me la
if you want to look for a mineral water, try look at water mineral with "Reversed Osmosis" |
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