Kovachii basket update

[Rick]

Both are very great looking plant! Can't wait to see their flowers!

Me too! When's the normal blooming season start? They're going to do it this year...( I can tell:wink.

 

[Rick]

Great growing Rick. Are you feeding the k-lite strength and ph the same to the pk as all your other plants. What is the ph of your k-lite that your giving them?

Gary
UK

So far this winter K lite at 50ppm N (per week) with no pH adjustment so its under 7.0 all the time. The irrigation water is also very weak ionic strength with alkalinity around 10-20ppm. pH around 7. Really no difference than anything else in the GH.

 

[Shiva]

Where they previously bloomed, or was one the original seedling?

No flower yet, but I have high hopes for this year.

 

[Carper]

My k-lite mix @ 50 ppm N with RO comes out at around 6.0 ph. The RO water has a PH of around 7 so the feed must be lowering it slightly and just wondered whether this might be too low for PK. Our tap water is very hard with a high PPM and don't add any to my mixes. I may add rain water but rarely need too.

Gary
UK

 

[Rick]

My k-lite mix @ 50 ppm N with RO comes out at around 6.0 ph. The RO water has a PH of around 7 so the feed must be lowering it slightly and just wondered whether this might be too low for PK. Our tap water is very hard with a high PPM and don't add any to my mixes. I may add rain water but rarely need too.

Gary
UK

I haven't been measuring pH on a regular basis. Just a couple of random batches. TDS gets measured frequently. There's a little bit of Cichlid sand in the basket (if it hasn't washed out). That could supply some extra pH control and alkalinity, but last time I did a pour through, alkalinity wasn't very high. I don't think pH outside of normal 5.5-6.5 is an issue for PK, but becomes and issue depending on the type of nitrogen you supply (nitrate vs ammonia). Hardness is the measure of calcium and magnesium. If you were feeding a high K fert, these could become deficient in the plant if you were watering with RO or soft water.

 

[Ron-NY]

Me too! When's the normal blooming season start? They're going to do it this year...( I can tell:wink.

They are winter/spring bloomers. I see JPMC has one blooming now http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29084

So I would have expected to be in spike already.

 

[Carper]

I have a seedling plant which I nearly lost. It has 3 growths, the largest about 6 ins across. However, I repotted it a few months ago in small bark & perlite. It is very slow, but having a closer look today I can see new roots making their way through the perlite. I stand in a few mm of RO water then let dry out to damp and feed with the k-lite weekly by passing through the pot. Do the seedlings tend to be very slow until established then pick up speed?.

I take it my present feeding regime is good for PK.

Gary
UK

 

[Rick]

I have a seedling plant which I nearly lost. It has 3 growths, the largest about 6 ins across. However, I repotted it a few months ago in small bark & perlite. It is very slow, but having a closer look today I can see new roots making their way through the perlite. I stand in a few mm of RO water then let dry out to damp and feed with the k-lite weekly by passing through the pot. Do the seedlings tend to be very slow until established then pick up speed?.

I take it my present feeding regime is good for PK.

Gary
UK

Slow versus fast is relative, but I started with this plant around 9" and its been going great guns from the start.

 

[abax]

I hope you see a bud soon. I'd love to see a PK that I actually like. The
plant looks wonderful.

 

[dodidoki]

I expect flowers from first of mine, too.
I have two plants, both do well. Second one produced an "interesting" root: I covered the base of plant with sphagnum and this sily root is growing upwards into sphagnum..

My another question: how can I take higher res. pic, than 97 KB. It is very small.....

 

[cnycharles]

what kind of camera? they usually have settings for low medium and high resolution.
or, do you mean how can you upload a larger picture?

 

[dodidoki]

what kind of camera? they usually have settings for low medium and high resolution.
or, do you mean how can you upload a larger picture?

I could make pic about at 8-10 MB with my camera, but forum allows to upload up to only 97 kB. What you can see from me are about 95 kB pics ( exactly 95,3). If I tried to increase resoution, I always get this message from server that I exceeded 97 kB .....
But I see everytime that you send higher resol. pics....

 

[cnycharles]

oh, I see.
if you upload directly to the slippertalk forum's server you will get the message saying to keep underneath 97k (small) to save space (a lot of storage space would cost more money).

most of us upload a picture somewhere else, and then post the link on the slippertalk page. if you do this, your file can be as large as you want and there isn't any storage space used on the slippertalk server.

if you have somewhere where you can store files on the internet, you can upload a picture to there, or you can get a picture posting account on some of the photo places on the internet like flickr etc. I use space on our orchid club account because they have a huge amount of storage and use very little of it, though I do have a flickr (I think) account that I haven't used yet, in case I no longer have access to the club's space

 

[dodidoki]

Many thanks for advice!

 

[Silvan]

great looking plants you all have.. can't wait to see them all in bloom next year around this time

Shiva, do you find "Jewel" more difficult than the "laura x Ana" ?

 

[Shiva]

great looking plants you all have.. can't wait to see them all in bloom next year around this time

Shiva, do you find "Jewel" more difficult than the "laura x Ana" ?

I only have Jewel for now. But I'll be able to compare when I get the Laura and Anna cross next weekend from Glen Decker.

 

[Rick]

The plant I'm growing is LauraXAnna, but since its the only PK I have, I can't compare it to any other crosses either.