Funny this should show up today.
These are about a year out of flask.Growing pretty well in the compots. Afraid to repot them. Don't want to lose any. I have been researching and searching the web but not a lot of info out there. How do others grow these?
I bought several and had them delivered to a show. The plants were extremely small. The flasks were shaken pretty bad. I had to deflask everything immediately. Nothing survived. I have purchased over 100 flasks in the last three years. I have lost almost none.
I get all my phrag flasks from...
you will notice two have some sphagnum on top. They really don't like this. I tried several things. Fine bark & rock & perlite seems to give the best result (50%, 25%, 25%).
Someone needs to work with DFG to get permission to breed confiscated plants. That's what Antec labs did back in the day to get vietnamense legal. I think this was also done for several other new species.
I bought some venus fly trap seeds. They grew into big cactus ...
All of the hot peppers seeds I bought were not even peppers.
I don't buy seeds except from established companies now.
roths are always worth keeping. Hard to get rid off even when you have to many. If it grows well for you and bloom regularly, the color and shaped are always fine!