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KategoricalKarnivore wrote:

tannerm wrote: Thank you. What're your grow conditions?

It's just basic house temps etc. 68-72F temp. RH is around 60-70%. It's in equal parts peat/perlite/sand. Sits in a water tray with an inch or so of water. It is about 8 inches under 2 dual bulb T8 6500K lights. Here is what it looked like 1 month ago when I got it. Lots of new growth.

Holy!!!! Wow, that's some fantastic progress! Great growing!


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Grey wrote:

tannerm wrote:That weser looks great (is that its species name, just going off picture name?)Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks. Yes, that's a P. 'Weser' (cross between P. ehlersiae and P. moranensis). I always thought it displayed really lovely colours, considering I don't use artificial lighting. It's amazing what some vibrant summer sunshine can do!

Good grief though, the rest of these plants are so stunning!!

Hi, I was wondering where you got your wesser from?

Mark

carnigrower wrote:Hi, I was wondering where you got your wesser from?

Mark

Hey Mark, I bought it from Little Shop of Horrors, an online UK-based shop.

Cheers Grey!

Mark

Pt 2: All the other pings!

I took most of these photos last Friday, hoping I would upload all of them by then. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance, but some of these plants grow surprisingly fast so I took some photos today to capture the new growth.

P. caerulea, a small replacement to the large one I lost when I accidently let my warm temperates dry out during a really bad freeze.
P. calderoniae, some of them like to be awake during the winter.
P. chuquisacensis, the large one grows quite fast. It actually finished making the newest leaf in the photo today.
P. cubensis, a tricky plant that needs high humidity. Does not seem to mind temps that are way cooler than it experiences in Cuba. Seems to have different leave morphology in different medias.
P. cyclosecta
P. elongata, considered to be one of the most difficult CPs to grow, though I don't mean to toot my own horn when I say this (oh who am I kidding, I'm gonna brag away!). It grows in a habitat called a Paramo, which is Spanish for "wasteland". In the wild, it can experience temps of low 70s during the day, dropping all the way to freezing at night. It is incredibly windy where it grows, and the soil is relatively dry year-round, though this plant does go through two different dry seasons, so the soil is marginally more moist while actively growing, though never wet it seems. I am looking into making a chest freezer-type grow chamber for it, so I can get those spectacular temp-drops at night.
P. emarginata x jaumavensis
P. emarginata
P. gigantea
P. hirtiflora, received on Friday.
P. kondoi (a.k.a. P. reticulata)
P. lusitanica growing on disgusting media
P. lusitanica covering 90% of the surface area of this pot
P. lutea, these are replacements for ones I lost during the winter, currently still settling in (they can take a while if barerooted).
Some survivor lutea
Dying lutea
P. megaspilaea, starting to make slightly longer leaves and flowering, it must be noticing the slightly warmer temps we have been having. Guess they are just gonna wake up early.
P. primuliflora
P. primuliflora survivors (one on the right just took forever to settle in, that one was never outside).
P. Yucca Do 1713

Wow. Great collection.

My newest delivery

A little old, I'll try to update a bit in the next few weeks
P. esseriana


P. Pirouette - got this pretty recently, hope to see it out of dormancy for once lol


P. gigantea


The first and last one are on lava rock and the middle one is in an all mineral media mix

My P. x pirouette

Lovely stuff guys!


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SFLguy wrote:A little old, I'll try to update a bit in the next few weeks
P. esseriana


P. Pirouette - got this pretty recently, hope to see it out of dormancy for once lol


P. gigantea


The first and last one are on lava rock and the middle one is in an all mineral media mix

Can we have an update? The lava rock one is fantastic!


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Esseriana is doing the same as usual and it's sending up a little offshoot. P. gigantea is doing great


Got some close up shots of this P. lusitanica from Valongo, Portugal and this P. immaculata which I haven't seen much of in cultivation.


First is from when this little one was just walking up. The baby P. gypsicola is getting longer leaves now but it's always hard to get a good picture of it.



Lastly I've got P. debbertiana metallic purple. It's not too purple yet but I just moved it into a bit more light lol

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SFLguy wrote:Esseriana is doing the same as usual and it's sending up a little offshoot. P. gigantea is doing great

Holy cow! Gigantica and gyp look amazing! What soil mix do you use?


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Well gigantea is pretty much just lava rock but otherwise it's 1:1:1 peat sand perlite. I've also tried some mineral mixes but the pings need to be fed much more in that mix

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