NeciFiX
Kung Fu Fighting!
Hello there,
I have a happy Darlingtonia that's been thriving and doing just great. I've often been jealous of the red coloration of photos of Darlingtonia. It's getting extremely high amounts of full direct blazing sun but never gets color, it's definitely not sunshine. It's tannins I think because when I top watered it to test it out (I never do this regardless of the cool roots thing because it's doing just fine with the water tray) the water was crystal clear. So I was talking to ChronoKiento and he mentioned black tea, he also mentioned putting good peat in water and soaking the water through the Darlingtonia pot.
I could also re-pot it (I don't know what this would do, just keep it in the original pot shaped clump and have it collapse from watering it), it's been in a dinky black 3 inch pot for 2 years straight and the soil doesn't have tannins in it and looks like pure peat.
What should I do?
~Sam.
I have a happy Darlingtonia that's been thriving and doing just great. I've often been jealous of the red coloration of photos of Darlingtonia. It's getting extremely high amounts of full direct blazing sun but never gets color, it's definitely not sunshine. It's tannins I think because when I top watered it to test it out (I never do this regardless of the cool roots thing because it's doing just fine with the water tray) the water was crystal clear. So I was talking to ChronoKiento and he mentioned black tea, he also mentioned putting good peat in water and soaking the water through the Darlingtonia pot.
I could also re-pot it (I don't know what this would do, just keep it in the original pot shaped clump and have it collapse from watering it), it's been in a dinky black 3 inch pot for 2 years straight and the soil doesn't have tannins in it and looks like pure peat.
What should I do?
~Sam.