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Hi Michael,.

She was still in pure Sphagnum; I will keep that continue so in the tuber.

Happy growing, Bernhard.

Hi Bernard,.

Sphagnum I think now a lot, but this is a costly thing of course if the tubers are larger. Do you use it more than once? Or up to the size of the tubers?
I's ever thought to make only a "bed" of Sphagnum for the tuber in normal soil substrate. I but a pale haze, whether the sense does...

I came from back of Seramis, finally, after I today is a 50 g. titanum tuber got wrecked. The blade still looks good, even with a few roots... is now in Sphagnum, see.

Love greetings
Michael

Hi Michael,.

I use it several times, but always only for same tuber; the biggest pots have to about 20 cm.

Whether this works with a "bed" in normal peat-based substrate, I venture to doubt.
Sphagnum is eh already getting wet, as it neatly pours, and if still a "mantle" drum, I could imagine that's too wet and too poorly ventilated (low pore volume).
Pure Sphagnum is probably only for the Group of titanum, hewittii, borneensis etc, really good so from always humid, tropical areas.

What I still do in addition to pure Sphagnum is adding rel little unit Earth (70% white peat, 30% clay) to the Sphagnum, something to increase the storage capacity of the nutrient. I've done this for one hirsutus and that liked the.

What's the cost, you're right...
I once bought 1 kg on ebay for €14 from Terra exotica as an offer and zehre still...
This was however not pure Sphagnum, as also Laub(Stücke) were included.
On the hp, it is not available for the price:
http://www.Terra-exotica.de/bodengrund/Moos-und-Laub

Ronny has purchased from Amazon and I remember that that was really pure Moss:
https://www.Amazon.de/Sphagnum-Moos-aus-...s=Sphagnum+Moos

I have still some titanum and koratnesis/paeoniifolius in Seramis stand; the koratnesis/paeoniifolius look good, I don't; know how it looks when the titanum in the Seramis, the journal of titanum still handsome.
Ronny has experienced the same thing as you – post # 56 here:
Seramis as Subtrat for difficult species (titanum, gigas, decus-silvae etc.)

LG, Bernhard.

Hi Bernard,.

I made not-so-good experiences with Sphagnum. The plants (gigas + hewittii) have always survived - more but also not. The Sphagnum was always quickly soggy.
Therefore, I have planted these types in pure coconut fibers (such as for terrariums). With success. Own your A. gigas did a skip to the top and have much larger leaves than before. Coconut fibers you must fertilize more just because they contain no nutrients.

Many greetings
Ortwin

Hi Ortwin,.

do you have a good source for coir?

I assume that you mean not that briquettes, "Flowers - or coconut Earth" little structured result...

VG, Bernhard.

Hi Bernard,.

There are briquettes, but whether there are the ones who are everywhere to buy it, I don't know. I had tried the times, liked it and stayed there. There is a very loose, soft and stable substrate after the water addition of pure coconut fibres. A. gigas and hewittii I plant right then, otherwise I'm taking it to the normal standard soil auzulockern. I also use it to sensitive tuberous well over the rest period to bring.
It works very well.

Many greetings
Ortwin

Hi Ortwin,.

now I am surprised; This coconut Earth briquettes that I know rather revealed a very finely crumbled something which has hardly any pores and is not a stable structure. I thought not much of them so far compared to white peat-based standard soil. But surely there is also quality differences.
You may have a brand name and a photograph of the packaging?

VG, Bernhard.

Hi Bernard,.

makes sense that the combination of soil and Sphagnum is problematic.
Thanks for the Sphagnumquellen, since I have gelöhnt still many times. Because the foliage shares therein; had you bought the "Moss", or the "Sphagnum moss" is also riddled with?

Hi Ortwin,.

am also puzzled that the coconut substrate works, but the success gives you right. The tubers that are white or make it a dark "layer of Cork"?


Love greetings
Michael

Hi Bernard,.

I use that too. In particular, I like that it is so hard not like normal potting soil but remains loose. That makes it also much easier from transplanting. In the less sensitive plants such as Monstera, Philodendron and the water plants such as Colocasia, Xanthosoma I use it pure, at the Amorphos I mix perlite, Seramis and charcoal to, so that it is still somewhat breezy.

When cultivating, I use pure always coconut Earth. As a result, I have no mold problems more and also no problems with Sciaridae.

The normal flower boxes and container plants I mix potting soil and coconut Earth about 2/3 to 1/3. Thus, the substrate is relaxed here, but it is overall not so expensive.

Usually I use this one, which has a good quality in my opinion.
http://www.eBay.de/ITM/12-x-9-L-Anzuchte...zsAAOSwCGVX2oiH


Greeting
Andreas

Hi Michael,.

I bought the Sphagnum moss...

I don't know how the Moos of the Terra exotica.

@Andreas, thank you for the source! After what is now written, I must try this but guess...
What would be missing me, however, is the tone as nutrient storage...
Priced for me not necessarily an advantage, there and in the vicinity of Hamburg I am and there buy the unit Earth directly in the work; If I really did in the head, €8 per 70 L bag...
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VG, Bernhard.

Hi Bernard,.

I use the same briquettes like Andreas. I find it stable enough structure and use it for years; earlier rather than admixture, today in difficult species such as pur - what now doesn't belong here - also for Nepenthes.
I use it because the Sciaridae, which sometimes have driven me to despair, do not like coconut fibres and are therefore very well to get especially also for this reason.
@Michael: Whether the tubers look like now I know, I can't say exactly at the moment; I've ensured there not. I mean the A. gigas bulb I have repotted some time ago, was very bright. Very healthy anyway. She has now driven length a second sheet of about 1 metre, although she previously more or less only barely survived.
So I'm staying first at the coconut fibres.

Many greetings
Ortwin

Hi Ortwin,.

the observation regarding the Sciaridae is worth gold! I have in the last few years although no major problems with Sciaridae, but nevertheless very interesting and valuable...

One, isn't it worth sheet gigas with 1 m but a photo?

Happy growing, Bernhard.

Hi Bernard,.

Here is the picture. I do not get closer to the plant, because the winter garden is mercilessly full.

Below you can see the coir in the pot. As a companion plant, I like to take Pinguiculas, she is right to identify down to the petiole. Start Yes small insects, and I can realise what pests with me in the Conservatory just to works are. In normal Earth, grows but in coconut fibers...

Many greetings
Ortwin

Hi Ortwin,.

Chapeau! An impressive arrangement

Yet everything in the pot grows there?
Probably left a second, not small gigas.
In the middle of the spines/thorns an Anchomanes?
And it is one of the bright petiole lambii?

If you have time, but let's just put the species v.l.nr. before.

And the whole thing as a traffic light -so I never seen...

Happy growing and congratulations to the schlnen copies,
Bernhard.

Hi Bernard,.

almost perfect. Up on the A. lambii and Anchomas is all right.
The remaining plants, the gigas, are from seeds drawn A. hewittii; they have different dyes in the petioles.
The plant is in the middle of a Pseudohydrosme gabunensis.

Many greetings
Ortwin

Hello
Great plants, no question.
Coconut fibres are interesting for me as a fan of Carnivore with a few beginner tubers, but you want to have the salt residues. Or abdulazeez said, give off salt. So you guys yet no problems?
Greetings Ralf

Hi Ralf,.

No, so far I had no problems - so if you do not overfertilised. The fertilizer must be dosed so that he can fully be absorbed by plants.
If I have the impression that this could be not the case, because I've heavily fertilized for example a plant during the growth period, then I pour it through before the plant draws up, really with rain water, to wash out the fertilizers of rest of.
So far it has worked well.

Many greetings
Ortwin

Gigantomanen,

After the gigas with a rotten off bud (post # 105) in pure Sphagnum was initially quite well (# 107, 112, 114, 117 post), it looked last fall (post # 139) then unfortunately not so good out; the tuber had lost to diameter and the conclusion be weaving looked not so beautifully smooth and bright, as before.

Today I checked once - the tuber was transplanted in slightly damp Sphagnum held - and the bulb was out - hollow and full of springtails so RIP...

Still think I pure Sphagnum for gigas, borneensis lambii etc suitable is... - I will test it further...

(UN-today) Happy growing, Bernhard.

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For the first time, shame about the tuber Bernhard :-(

What I actually wanted to - ask speaks somewhat against living Sphagnum moss? Especially since the antibacterial effect probably also only here comes fully to the development...

LG, Sonja

Hi Sonja,.

I face such losses by now quite well... , mainly because I have more copies of this clone...
I also believe that you have to kill a certain number of Amorphophallus, before it is can - cultivating learned the hard way just so hurt it the first titanum or then does still envisages...

I think that is nothing against living Sphagnum.
I was so far also the perhaps mistaken opinion that even dead Sphagnum aseptically acts...

Happy growing, Bernhard.