NewGuyOnTheBlock
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Hi guys/gals/whomever!
I've been growing a TC Cypripedium Acaule for about 3-3.5yrs now. It's done great, until it's pot was roughly disturbed by a family member and it's leaves rotted. Roots are healthy, white, and chunky. So I repotted it and freshened up it's substrate. I'll need to reacidify it tonight.
But I've been trying to grow other, non-acidic, woodland cypripedium with no success. I had one glimpse of success with parviflorum, left for a vacation with my tenant to water it while we were away, and she forgot, and it dried out. So I haven't tried since and have since started using automated irrigation outside to prevent it.
The new bed is about 2.5ft deep for drainage with granite rocks on the bottom. I used oak leaf duff and turface for the substrate, but idk if that will work well for younger plants. Not like when I had the completely inorganic substrate with the parviflorum. I'd like a whole bed of different species and hybrids. But I want to get the environment down to a science. They'll be under an very large and old pin oak tree here in North Carolina, USA, Zone 7B. Morning sun for about 3 hrs, and bright shade the rest of the day.
How would you ammend the current soil I have to accommodate younger plants?
I've been growing a TC Cypripedium Acaule for about 3-3.5yrs now. It's done great, until it's pot was roughly disturbed by a family member and it's leaves rotted. Roots are healthy, white, and chunky. So I repotted it and freshened up it's substrate. I'll need to reacidify it tonight.
But I've been trying to grow other, non-acidic, woodland cypripedium with no success. I had one glimpse of success with parviflorum, left for a vacation with my tenant to water it while we were away, and she forgot, and it dried out. So I haven't tried since and have since started using automated irrigation outside to prevent it.
The new bed is about 2.5ft deep for drainage with granite rocks on the bottom. I used oak leaf duff and turface for the substrate, but idk if that will work well for younger plants. Not like when I had the completely inorganic substrate with the parviflorum. I'd like a whole bed of different species and hybrids. But I want to get the environment down to a science. They'll be under an very large and old pin oak tree here in North Carolina, USA, Zone 7B. Morning sun for about 3 hrs, and bright shade the rest of the day.
How would you ammend the current soil I have to accommodate younger plants?
