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yes... well RO water, I make sure they always have some in them, and Ive wiped them down with a weak solution of orchid food a time or two. I've also added a dried blood worm or two
but I haven't added anything other then RO to the new pitcher... wanted to verify it was safe for the older pitchers first
thanks Chris36, Jlap... this is all new terrain for me
Not a lot of how-to info out there, and a lot of conflicting info in what you do find...basically treating them like cephs only wetter
cool and bright
when it comes time, transplanting them will be stressful LOL.... everything I have read has said they break extremely easily.... think I want to try a cypress based media, but not really sure of that either, the ceph mix I use works awfully well for me LOL
I transplanted some over the wintertime. And ripped apart the rhizomes like I would with Flytraps to divide them.
Didn't seem to set em back much either cause the forming pitchers continued to grow and open. All the divisions were looking good too.
Now they're all still doing quite good so I wouldn't worry about the transplantation process er anythung..
I should be getting my first H. Minor any day now. It's going in my highland nep grow chamber. You are right though, there is not a lot of info that I could find on these. But from what I did find is that they like it 70's in the day with a nice drop at night, very bright light, and good air circulation. Sounds like they like ultra highland conditions.
so far mine have been sitting on the shelf with everything else, 65-68f, 40-60RH and misted a couple times a day...
glider, quogue, may I ask what media you used?
JMurphy, Clint, back in the early days of the ICPS newsletter there were a couple articles on growing helis for beginners, I think one of them was a "beginner's corner" feature article
and wistuba has a couple good papers floating around, it will be nice to get the CDROM this summer , it's hard to search through pdf files with dialup LOL
I use a mix of peat/perlite, lava rocks and I think I threw some sand & lfs in there too. I forget. I did make the mix loose though and I grow it with a plastic bag over it for humidity. Seems to be happy, I'll take some pics in a couple weeks.
I did hear from EP, who made the 'Tequilla' cross, not to use peat. I had just repotted and didn't want to repot again, so I stuck it out. Plant looks good, nice-lookin traps, ain't so big though.
I gotta lotta babies from rippin it up, they're all doin well too.
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