Hi from India

[neper]

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.

[delphiguy]

Originally Posted by neper

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.

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?

[neper]

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.

[delphiguy]

Originally Posted by neper

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.

Water from the AirCon runoff is another good alternative....

[neper]

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

[delphiguy]

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.

[ahbeng04]

Originally Posted by neper

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.

May I know what is TDS for your country city water? What source of water u use? Possible is water problem?

[neper]

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

[ahbeng04]

Originally Posted by neper

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

Then should be no problem. The water in malaysia is around 80-100ppm, hardness around 5 ppm, free chlorine is around 1-2 ppm. so far using city water, no probem for my CP.

[Harris Azariel]

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.