Hi Athena, Glad you liked 'em, I haven't had time to upload many shots to Photobucket so those are just the 'overall' shots. Don't know why but Firefox freezes every time I try to 'bulk upload' so I have to do them one at a time
R: Pumice; I'm paying 1.90 RM a kilo! Plus the shipping was 70 RM for 10 big bags at 18 kilos each. The seedling shots showed Perlite in the mix as those were potted up some time back. The first Tiger x Raff 'alata' shot shows one of the larger pumice stones on top of the mix. I've been putting a layer about an inch thick of the 1/2"-1" stones in the bottom of each pot and then mixing the coco cubes and pumice and repotting. With this new "00" size I'm mixing it thoroughly with the cubes and the plants seem to be loving it. Somewhere I have a photo of their smaller 1 kilo bags upon which they have printed the chemical breakdown of the composition of the pumice...I'll try to find it and post later. (I THINK it is also somewhere on their website). The Ag-grade Perlite is available from a shop in Bangkok but I pay something like 190 RM a bag (Granted, it's a bigger bag, but not
that much bigger)! PM me your e-address and I'll send you some other pix without having to upload to photobucket.
Alcran - I've not been into Neps all that long, I just go a bit nuts when I find something I like to propagate! (watch for a future thread on Drosera!) And I obviously enjoy propagating Neps! Probably around about 2 years now. I really don't have much in the way of Highlanders as I'm about 500 meters from the beach on a hot, sunny island about 30 M. above sea level. I have a few "HL"/"Iintermediates" that I've started from seed and am trying to see if I can get the strongest growing ones to maturity and cross them again. I've also started trying out a few hybrids using HL's (like the N. burbidgeae x edwardsiana) to see if they can handle the heat, so far so good!
