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Marc
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A few days ago I managed to get a single growth Mexipedium that isn't in the best condition. But as the plant is hard to get I'm going to do my best to rescue it.
After some reading on this forum and on various sites I came across this topic on our own forum:
http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16834&page=1
Various people mentioned getting good results with potting the mexipedium in a river sand mix with charcoal. So I decided that this was the way forward for me.
First of all let me show you the poor little plant:
As I read that Mexipedium is a shallow rooting plant I decided that I need a bit wider pot that isn't to deep. I came across the following pot and it was the best that I could find.
Because it's still a bit deep, but not as deep as a regular terracotta pot I decided to add some lava stones for drainage.
Because the lava is quite coarse I decided to add some perlite which should still provide drainage while preventing to much of the substrate from running out.
Now it's substrate mixing time, I decided to use river sand, charcoal, coarse river sand and a bit of perlite.
While mixing it I found out that I had to much charcoal so i mixed in more river sand end I ended up with this mix.
Plant was potted and it ended up looking like this.
I placed the plant on a eastern facing windowsill, it get plenty of light there without getting direct expose to strong afternoon sun. I will keep you guys updated.
After some reading on this forum and on various sites I came across this topic on our own forum:
http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16834&page=1
Various people mentioned getting good results with potting the mexipedium in a river sand mix with charcoal. So I decided that this was the way forward for me.
First of all let me show you the poor little plant:
As I read that Mexipedium is a shallow rooting plant I decided that I need a bit wider pot that isn't to deep. I came across the following pot and it was the best that I could find.
Because it's still a bit deep, but not as deep as a regular terracotta pot I decided to add some lava stones for drainage.
Because the lava is quite coarse I decided to add some perlite which should still provide drainage while preventing to much of the substrate from running out.
Now it's substrate mixing time, I decided to use river sand, charcoal, coarse river sand and a bit of perlite.
While mixing it I found out that I had to much charcoal so i mixed in more river sand end I ended up with this mix.
Plant was potted and it ended up looking like this.
I placed the plant on a eastern facing windowsill, it get plenty of light there without getting direct expose to strong afternoon sun. I will keep you guys updated.