Hello,
i don't want to get on nerves with silly questions about watering, but i'm new here and didn't find any answer to my questions reading older threads.
So first: 3 years ago i got from an old woman in our neighborhood a quite
big and old collection of Paphiopedilum from her died husband. As a child i was very often in his greenhouse, fascinated by this beautiful plants, but i never began to collect. Now 30 years later i got this present ( 120 old plants, all nature forms, a few primary hybrids), addicted to this hobby and try to learn from foreign experiences ( because i had only three years to make my own ones) to grow them. So i read a lot about temperature, light etc., it works in my apartment quite well,the plants seem to be healthy growing.
But i worry with my water. i can't use rainwater so i begin to use osmosis water fertilizing it up to 250-350 µs. till here no problem, BUT: ph is something at 5, if i try to get it higher direction neutral, µs is going into dead zone (2000…), so what can i do, or is the ph value not so important, so i don't have to make thoughts about it?
I tried different fertilizer, but maybe not the right one?
thanks for helping me,
Falk
PS: sorry for my english, i'm not used to write since my school time...
i don't want to get on nerves with silly questions about watering, but i'm new here and didn't find any answer to my questions reading older threads.
So first: 3 years ago i got from an old woman in our neighborhood a quite
big and old collection of Paphiopedilum from her died husband. As a child i was very often in his greenhouse, fascinated by this beautiful plants, but i never began to collect. Now 30 years later i got this present ( 120 old plants, all nature forms, a few primary hybrids), addicted to this hobby and try to learn from foreign experiences ( because i had only three years to make my own ones) to grow them. So i read a lot about temperature, light etc., it works in my apartment quite well,the plants seem to be healthy growing.
But i worry with my water. i can't use rainwater so i begin to use osmosis water fertilizing it up to 250-350 µs. till here no problem, BUT: ph is something at 5, if i try to get it higher direction neutral, µs is going into dead zone (2000…), so what can i do, or is the ph value not so important, so i don't have to make thoughts about it?
I tried different fertilizer, but maybe not the right one?
thanks for helping me,
Falk
PS: sorry for my english, i'm not used to write since my school time...
