^hehehehe, serious over reaction!
im an idiot. lol.
anyways, time 4 an....
updaate!:
i uncovered my bog (it was covered in pine needled over winter) about a week ago! i have good news, and bad news.
well the tarnok is now officially dead, which had nothing to do with those mites, which i havent seen since last year, but i am still keeping my eye out for em, just in case. the tarnok rotted away at the rhizome during dormancy
i noticed that there was gray fuzz on a few of the leaves after clearing all the pine needles. i tugged at one of them , and it came out , and the base was brownish. so now, im like, "oh, craaaap, pleeease dont let the whloe thing be deeaaaad...." so, i went in and dug around it, and lifted the whole thing out, to check on the state of its rhizome. i got out a huge ball of peatmoss with a bunch of hairy white root tips sticking out. seeing what looked to me like healthy roots (at the tip anyways), i was thinking "ok, please let this mean that there is still some healthy rhisome in there.". i cleaned away the peatmoss , and got to the rhizome. i couldnt tell from the outside, so i broke it open a little. squishy brown mush. i litterally went tearing (carefully) through the whole rhizome just hoping to find
at least just
one little tiny green living tip. no such luck. i ended up with a pile of worm eaten rhixzome mush ad a bunch of dismembered roots. oh well...
on the bright side, i am happy to announce that this is my first time ever getting a sarr successfully through its dormancy. yeah, im a total noob, lol, but i guess its sort of a milestone for me! hehe!
the first sarr i got, a deathcube purp, along with a hybrid i got for my birthday, both died last winter. as described here in an off topic post i made while admiring pics of sarr flowers.
http://www.terraforums.com/forums/showthread.php?129714-Flower-Watch-2012/page2
this year, the deathcube rubra i rescued, and the psittacina both got through the winter just fine, along with the sundews. those (the dews) were growing close to the tarnok , so after taking it out to inspect the rhizome, i had to separate them, and re-plant them in the bog. thakfully, none of them got fungus-ed, and are all currently healthy looking dormancy buds, soon to grow probably!
also, i have a question about worms. are these ok in a minibog? i saw a few when i was diggin out that tarnok. i know that they help break down soil, so are usually a good thing, but in the case of a bog garden is this a bad thing? i know the peat/sand mix in my bog is going to break down eventually, so are worms just gonna be ok to have in it? i cant see how to really keep them out of the bog anyways, but i read something about worms being a bad thing in indoor Nepenthes pots, which, i know, is totaly different from an outdoor bog garden, but i just wanted to make sure.