Substrate for cypripedium

[Hakone]

today I note :

Substrate = Kanuma: Akadama: perlite = 2:1:1

is the bestest substrate for Cyps.

in the future Kyriu plays a role in the mix, for acid love cyps.

for alkaline love cyps, give a teaspoon of dolomite

 

[Hakone]

bardolphianum


plectrochilon


fargesii

 

[Hakone]

Tai,
I admire your ingenious soil mixing techniques.:rollhappy:

For my acaules I use plain old acid sand and top it off with some pine duff. Whenever it gets to dry I water with RO water 1 gal /1 oz of apple cider.
The plants been in that soil for over 6 years.

I must unfortunately disappoint you . Today

 

[Hakone]

I hope that the extreme cold we have currently didn't damage it.

Today

 

[Hakone]

Sorry was no going again on your List.

No Acaule flowering there and no Ferrari, you have a flowering hotei in, but this one is different from your second photo you show in this thread.
From that one I was speaking. And the others in this starting one. But this plants on this pictures you will not find again later. So you have others blooming later, but not from this buds.

About Acaule, if you would have a blooming one I am sure you would have shown in on of your threads or at least show the bud of itoke: And not from that one 4 years ago.
By the way this is the Tread I was speaking about failure with Cyp Acaule,

http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21486&highlight=Acaule


To the rest it is not worth to discuss with you. So lets stop us here.
You are right and I am wrong, the others have nothing to do with this discussion.

Today