Re: [Aroid-l] Cyrtosperma growing media suggestions...

From: <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2009.10.08 at 10:35:46 Dear Jeremy=2C If almost the entire pot will be submerged=2C then your potting/growing medium must be all coarse sand! =3B Any ''potting soil'' which you then submerge will rot=2C killing your plant. =3B Both Fairchild Gardens in Miami and the late Dr. Monroe Birdsey used this ''pure coarse sand'' in their pots which were completely submerged in large tanks/pools which contained MANY fish=2C the fishs waste provided the necessary fertilizer. See my article on growing Urospathas (a Neotropical genus much like the Asian Cyrtospermas) in Aroideana Vol. 16=2C pgs. 33-36. I also grew many Cyrtosperma sps=2C and the method has to be the same. I learned the hard way (experience) and lost several irreplaceable specimens from having the ''soil'' rot when the pot was submerged. =3B When the dead plant was un-potted=2C the rotten soil smelt like a corpse. Good luck. =3B =3B Write to me off-l and I`ll explain (if you`d like me to) on another method where only the bottom 3" or so of the pot is submerged=2C and inside this portion of the pot is only drainage rock/material=2C NO SOIL! Good Growing=2C Julius Boos WPB=2C FLORIDA Date: Wed=2C 7 Oct 2009 10:09:15 +1100 From: drplantman@gmail.com To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: [Aroid-l] Cyrtosperma growing media suggestions... Hiya Aroid-ers=2C Just after some suggestions about Cyrtosperma growing media (for C. johnstonii in particular). I've got them in a heated glasshouse (16C minimum) with high humidity (+85%) and am looking to have said aroid of choice standing in a large cement urn full of water - the growing crown will be above the waterline=2C but the bulk of the media and pot will be submerged. Any suggestions welcome=2C and thanks in advance! Jeremy RBG Melbourne Australia --_372939bd-1c94-44cf-9b1e-f19a7b1ebe31_----===============0948563257578014459==

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