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Mexican Pings Outside Getting Some Color

jimscott

Tropical Fish Enthusiast
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Your pings are quite nice! I'm jealous of your expansive variety of plants. :)
 
I can always start you off with some leaf sprouts.
 
Nice pings as always :)
 
Very nice collection. I killed my very first ping, and swore I would never grow one again. However, I have grown fairly fond of them. They are somewhat addicting, and you can grow quite a few in a small space.
 
How difficult is that Pinguicula gypsicola? I'm thinking about getting one.
 
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for me its been easy. but it hasnt gone through winter yet for me. but i dont think that should be hard either.

Jim: ok. second picture. far right row. second from the top. what is that. it looks dead like one of mine and i cant find the name tag for it! and you use the same pots as me! go 2.5's from Andy! =] haha

Alex
 
I've always wanted a ping, but I'm afraid that I'd kill it, with the really weird weather we get here in R.I. (dry as a bone one day, humid like all hell the next). Your pings have a really nice color to them, especially the one right above the bottom right ping.
 
The one conatiner has been outside, under a chair for about a month. The smaller container only a week. Even under a chair, so they don't burn, they get enough dappled / indirect sunlight to turn them pink. I hesitate to have them fully exposed because a good rain will likely scatter and rot them, as happened once before.
 
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i suck at growing Mexican Pings...i've decided. Give me any Ping from the US or hahah Lowes and I can turn it into a weed.

But the mexican pings I always get either....brown from the edges until the entire plant dies, or drop leaves until only a tiny center nubbin is left. If i water them, they rot. If I don't, they go dormant...and i wait for almost a year for them to wake up. Go fig.

Even my P. 'Titan' is more like (P. 'Tiny') compared to when how it looked when it first arrived.
 
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Man, you have the exact opposite experience as do most of us. I can't grow the N.A. types, except for P. primuliflora.
 
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Jim,

What soil mix do you use for your Mexican Pings? Their looking great!
 
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What hybrid is that in the second photo, top left corner?
 
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Vic: That was a mix of Perlite, eggshells, and crushed coral, on top of a little LFS.

Warren: That is P. moctezumae x [Köhres].

That setup did very well when I had it outside under a couple of chairs. I decided to chance them exposed and that's when they almost all died out. I don't know if it was too much rain or drying out or nematodes. Outside living just doesn't work for them for me. Hence needing to replace many of them. Eventually I will request more replacements as a trade or postage.
 
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