Cypripedium acaule seedling
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tocarmar
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From what I know Acaule is very tempermental , they don't like to be disturbed. The less handling the better. Also cyp seedlings just coming out of flask, or vernalization should not have any direct sunlight as that will kill them.
What is your mychorizal source?
you should, it's easy to put some organic material in the media.
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Eric Muehlbauer
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Of all cyps, acaule is the hardest to grow from seed,or in non-mycorrhizal media. The only success story, and it was qualified success, was with a 50:50 mixture of sand and milled sphagnum. The thing about acaule is that in the right conditions...which is very sandy and very acidic, with very low nutrients, it is actually pretty easy to grow. Its just that its tolerance range is so narrow.
Eric, it is easy to grow if You keep the pH-value below 4.5. In that case the substrate doesn't matter.
That was told to Hakone a lot of times but he ignores.
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Eric Muehlbauer
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My acaule's grow at a pH of 3.9.
Eric, we must convince Hakone that growing acaule is based on natural science not on religion. But this is not my job.
Nope.
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Eric Muehlbauer
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My photos are so old they are not on my computer! I actually wrote an article on acaule cultivation for the old defunct Native American Orchid Journal. Olaf contacted me, and translated it into German for Die Orchidee. The plants I wrote about finally expired, about 25 years after being planted. I think it may have been fungus infection. I still have others, accumulated over the years.
Notice how nice I was!? :evil:
No, You didn't buy them. It was a donation from me. And You killed them all.
SlipperKing
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OOPS!
Be nice, he lost his acaule!
Hakone
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donation would be wrong. What did you get from me, you are not remember. Are the Pleione still living.
Sir Berthold,
I'm very worried about your memory.
O. k. I will adjust. It was a middle course between killing and losing.
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