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Quote[/b] (cockatielmother @ Aug. 02 2005,8:49)]Hi:
I've lost P. cyclosecta and P. primuliflora to mold.
I've kept them in a tray that I added water to every other day. Is this too much humidity for these particular species? The others are still looking good and even showing a bit of growth.
They're in a mixture of 1/2 lfs and 1/2 perlite.
promuliflora tends to rot fairly often anyway, but they tend to rot less often in pure lfs
As for P.cyclosecta, that is a mexican Pinguicula and that mix is far too wet-I remember telling you this before!
A good mix for mexican Pinguicula is 1:1:1 peat, perlite, sand or 1:1:1:1 peat, perlite, sand vermiculite
As a general rule, mexican pings like very good drainage
I would repot your other mexican Pings into the one above mixes(though I usppose you could swap the peat for lfs) or they will rot sooner or later too
Trust me, Ive had my mexican pings in a mix like that before.....and I lost a lot to root or crown rot
But since Ive changed to using 1:1:1:1 peat, perlite, sand, vermiculite, I havnt lost a single one to root rot