Questions

[kentosaurs]

Hi everyone got a few not really important questions but i just wanna ask.......

1.Considering the recent dengue breakout i would like to reduce the water trays i actually have in my balcony...Although i only have a few i was thinking if some CPs would not need the water tray as much as others...Neps are of course the last to need a water tray...VFT i heard just need a thin or low leveled tray and doesn't like to be very wet like sarras soo you guys think that VFT will do as good as when i grow them with a water tray?

2.And also for droseras most need a peat and sandy mix but since i don't have sand can i use something to replace it such as perlite?? Or is there something in sand which sundews like?

3.I have some nep seeds turning a little grey does that mean they are dead? This seem to happen 90% on 1 pot while the other 2 is considered fine......

4.My D.Paradoxa is not doing that well it doesn't seem to grow any bigger everytime it grows a new leaf/trap others die down leaving only around 3-5 active traps at a time and i guess its in a sandy mix and also i put it in a tray and slowly algae starts to grow soo does that mean too much water or is there something else bothering the plant?

5.Another Q also about neps but not the seeds instead the seedlings...Well my first bath of seedlings so far biggest are around 1.5-2cm and mostly around 1cm and i got them germinated on last november which means its almost 4 months already...And yet still so small they are growing at a constant rate but that "rate" is sooo damm slow anyways probally i'm just inpatient but i've seen some people with they're seedlings getting stuck and never grew after so long.

Well thats all :smi le:

Ken