Selenipedium 2nd experiment

[Lycaste53]

In Germany there is a company, Neudorff, which sells some substrates for plants, called ´neudohum´. for the garden...for orchids etc.

 

[Hakone]

what is neudohum?

http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=246363#post246363

 

[cnycharles]

thanks for the link, but it really doesn't explain anything more than what I had already guessed (a potting soil/substrate)

 

[dodidoki]

your substrate is mixed after German recipe ?

Oh, nooo, something special, charcoal, bark, seramis, perlite and a lot of limestone(1/5 part) and I left plant in its original soil-ball.

 

[Hakone]

Oh, nooo, something special, charcoal, bark, seramis, perlite and a lot of limestone(1/5 part) and I left plant in its original soil-ball.

Why limestone ?

 

[dodidoki]

Why limestone ?

To protect plant from erwinia rot. Erwinia hates Ca.

 

[dodidoki]

Update: new growth is about 30 cm tall.

 

[Marc]

Well done, keep doing whatever your doing to it as it seems to like it.

 

[Dido]

geat cross fingers for you, hopefully we will see a flower from one of the plants