Re: FoxFarm organic fertilizers.
Cindy, thanks once again for providing me with a great answer.
My plants are grown outside under shade cloth year round. They get plenty of sun from sunrise until about 2 - 3 PM, with bright light for the rest of the day. Here in Panama we always have the same daylength, around 12-13 hours of light. Temperatures here also remain relatively constant year round, as well as high humidity. We only have winter and summer here, and they are the rainy and dry seasons respectively. It is a bit windier in summer as well. A friend of mine who lives in the highlands here in Panama has an incredible collection, I'm talking about hundreds of plants. He told me once that "nepenthes grow best at 9 degrees south of the Equator, and Panama is at 9 degrees north." With this I am trying to tell you that I believe my neps enjoy pretty good growing conditions.
As for the media I use, it is one part of each of the following: sphagnum peat moss, perlite, orchid coco chips. Some plants have one part LFS included in their mix, and others are in a mix consisting of LFS and coco chips only. I have a few that are growin in a mix of 2 parts perlite, one part LFS, and one part peat moss. This was before I got the coco chips. Anyways, regardless of the different mixes they all seem to drain quite well, but also retain enough water for me to only have to water about once or twice a week.
I have the same box of MirAcid as in the picture you posted. It says on the back to use one tablespoon per gallon for outdoor plants, I would probably go with 1/4 teaspoon per gallon. Do you just water the soil, or did you foliar feed as well?
Anyways, I read the chemical composition on miracid and it seems that it shares some of the same ingredients that I was worried about from the FoxFarm product. I guess that answers my question hehe.
Thanks again!
Last edited by Pananep; 24th October 2008 at 09:58 AM.
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