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Post by snapperhead51 on May 29, 2015 3:20:34 GMT -5
its hard to get pings in AU , not a huge amount available here , so I am trying to get seed in from mainly warm to cool growing pings not tropical or alpin stuff just to hard to grow here ,so here is a few photos of some pings i got and pulled out of T/ C P.gigantia in back and some P.agnata I pulled out of T/C several months ago , they grew to this size very quickly took only 2 months to reach this size from ex-vitro 3 cm wide plants to that size in front P moranensis and some hybrids like P.sethos & P.weser around it , the Mooranensis is another lot i got out of T/c , had a lot of them, they sold quite quickly and grew quickly from ex-vitro once again . P.macro out of T/c too P.sethos and P.weser in flower in spring few more on the other side pings on a rock I did several years ago P. gigantea at its best around 300mm across quite large even for this specie P.sethos getting a bit much sun looken good though
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Post by Maiden on May 29, 2015 3:28:36 GMT -5
Once again, stunning.
What is your pings soil mix? And what is your watering routine?
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Post by lloyd on May 29, 2015 3:32:26 GMT -5
Amazing.
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Post by snapperhead51 on May 29, 2015 3:45:27 GMT -5
soil is either peat & sand no real ratio or just a good quality potting mix,i been using osmocoat premium , and add more sand to it before potting , watering is only when they needed, they like to be on dry side rather then wet is my experience so far , not real good with pings reasonably new to them only last 5 or 6 years
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Post by sokkos on May 29, 2015 8:29:10 GMT -5
Wow! I have P. gigantea but can never can it to grow as big as what you have.
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Post by WillyCKH on May 29, 2015 9:26:06 GMT -5
Woah!!! 30 cm wide, that's huge!
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Post by shoggoths on May 29, 2015 16:31:55 GMT -5
Wow, that's what can be called a lot flowers !!
You're very successful with them.
I'll put a gigantea in my usual outdoor potting mix this weekend.
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Post by snapperhead51 on May 29, 2015 20:26:40 GMT -5
a tip ping's like to be fertilized too , so dont be frighted to give them a good dose of fert when you do your neps or any other cp's , or some osmocoat in the potting mix helps too , mine get fret-ed as much as my neps , but if your using a orchid fert use at 10% strength or get a fert called focus that I use and u can use it at all most full strength cause it have no nasties in it that those crapy orchid fets have , as most use nitrates or amonias as nitrogen and urea ,all crap for cp's !
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