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For those wondering how silica sand looks like, here's the best example of it, i bought 25LB from lesliespool.com, and the silica is just like i wanted to be!!!
http://www.lesliespool.com/Home/Filters14700.html

Thanks for the pictures! That reminded me that I need to go to Home Depot and by a bag of silica sand. Too bad the smallest size they have is 100lbs!

I would love to buy the 100lb bag!! , the things i could do with it!!

Good luck!

jht-union wrote:I would love to buy the 100lb bag!! , the things i could do with it!!

Good luck!

I Agree! This also reminds me too that spring is here and its time to get to repotting! Thanks for the pictures!

ReefPlant wrote:I Agree! This also reminds me too that spring is here and its time to get to repotting! Thanks for the pictures!

Wow Reefplant, i was about to say you're a bit late for that, but after looking where you live, i can tell spring is not there yet for you.

Good luck repotting!

Thanks! I know... Its slow tog row this time of year here:) I'll have pictures once they are all done!

That is great potting for pinguiculas! Do that for the one that I will be sending you!
The advantage to having a layer of sand is that it reduces rot which kills many pings.

bombsboy wrote:That is great potting for pinguiculas! Do that for the one that I will be sending you!
The advantage to having a layer of sand is that it reduces rot which kills many pings.

I think it is a nice aery soil for pinguiculas, but perhaps mexican pinguiculas only, i have only one pinguicula that is temperate, and i put with my mexican pinguiculas, and it didn't do well, it is reduced by roots now, perhaps is alive still or not. from what it appears with pics i have seen, temperate pinguiculas like humid media, almost sitting media, and need high humidity.

my mixture for when yours arrive will be peat, with very little mixture of silica, LFSM ontop to keep humdity higher, and maybe a bit of my famous layer of silica sand

Eric wrote:Thanks for the pictures! That reminded me that I need to go to Home Depot and by a bag of silica sand. Too bad the smallest size they have is 100lbs!

Which one of these, if it's the same you get at your Home Depot and the grit size of it if ya know? http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/sto ... ogId=10053

I just bought 2 50 lb bags of silica sand the other day, to repot my sundews!

Was it from leslies???

Good luck!