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Post by hal on Mar 29, 2013 15:18:42 GMT -5
I took my containers out of the garage today and cleaned out all the dead leaves. How are your bogs and containers doing?
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Post by lloyd on Mar 29, 2013 16:55:21 GMT -5
It's still going to be below zero for the next few nights so I left mine in. I had already taken them in and out during the rainy days in the late winter. Everything looks pretty good and will come out soon.
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Post by Raymond on Mar 29, 2013 20:30:29 GMT -5
Me,... Zero Plants lost looks the same as I left it few months back ;D First season with my bog was a great success
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Post by shoggoths on Mar 30, 2013 8:28:58 GMT -5
Hey hey, Here's my bog : We can only see my water reserve tub. My plants are still in full darkness in the garage. I looked in the container yesterday and some have started growing so I'll bring them out soon (they forecast a cold night monday). Hal, do your pot have holes ?
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Post by LucST on Mar 30, 2013 19:33:38 GMT -5
I have pitchers and and flowers forming on almost all of my Sarracenia! Looks like its going to be a good looking tub soon.
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Post by hal on Mar 30, 2013 21:28:42 GMT -5
No holes in my pots, shoggoths. I just tip them and drain them off when they get flooded in the rain. And about twice a year I set them on their sides to let them drain out, then refill them so they don't get skunky.
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Post by lloyd on Mar 30, 2013 23:17:02 GMT -5
I use undrained pots but with a pvc pipe going down to the bottom which is filled with clay balls covered by mineral wool cubes. This keeps the peat/perlite above a drainage area. The water level goes down to the very bottom in hot dry times and over the top in deluges. The pvc pipe allows for easy siphoning as needed.
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Post by Maiden on Mar 31, 2013 0:47:49 GMT -5
I prefer keeping my sarracenias in littles pots, because i have watering problem in big ones. My plants rot
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Post by lloyd on Mar 31, 2013 21:17:44 GMT -5
Not sure why big pots would rot roots? I use big pots and there's no problem even at the stinky bottom of the pots-the roots are really vigorous. It is important to have a good mix of peat/perlite. I think peat alone would rot the roots-too much compaction and not enough aeration.
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Post by Raymond on Apr 1, 2013 7:38:26 GMT -5
I have no drainage in my bog it only flooded a day or two but the summer heat evaporated most of it off so I didn't really care ;D O and is it a god idea to uncover my bog know all the snow melted and we are in the 2+ over freezing Edit: Photobucket doesn't seem to like tags. What nonsense... I am late but.... did you press the IMG code under Image link ;D Thats how I do it click and paste
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Post by lloyd on Apr 1, 2013 11:33:48 GMT -5
If it goes below say 3C at night, covering would be a good idea. Be careful to take the cover off if it goes above ~3C or if the sun is out. I've had serious mould/rot in the past when I left covers on in warming weather.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Apr 8, 2013 12:25:41 GMT -5
After putting around 20 garbage bags of pine straw on and around my bog last year, I was kind of anxious to see how everything made out. I've had these plants for years in a bog in my back yard with very few losses. I finally moved it last year when the surrounding trees simply got too big and the plants had no colour and were all etoliated from the lack of direct sun. In moving it to the front of my house, it was more in the path of the westerly winds and, although its total depth is > 2 feet, the top ten inches or so is raised above ground, hence the volume of pine straw used.
I am pleased to say that everything made it with no problems. There were even a few D. dielsiana that I had stuck in there for the heck of it that survived, which was a bit of a surprise.
Not much to see pic-wise yet. I still have to identify and re-tag most of the plants, as I didn't have things tagged in the old garden (I did at first, but the blue jays liked to yank them out for some stupid reason). I have a list of everything that I did (and hopefully still do) have, so that will be my project for the summer.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by Apoplast on Apr 8, 2013 20:28:25 GMT -5
Hi Rick - I'm looking forward to those pictures. That's impressive if you had D. dielsiana survive a winter. Gives me hope I could keep a few things alive outside.
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Post by 31drew31 on Apr 9, 2013 12:32:57 GMT -5
Looking forward to the pictures of everyone's bogs.
Very cool that dielsiana made it through winter for you Rick!
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Post by lloyd on Apr 20, 2013 23:19:44 GMT -5
I'm glad I didn't drag my plants up to the deck. Even in Toronto it's 0->-3C for the next week at night and there was a brief blizzard this am. Not sure how the flower buds would like that! I'm just dragging them out of the garage during nice days and back again at night.
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