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Post by ontariotraps on May 19, 2015 23:37:56 GMT -5
Iv been researching trying to find out what the natural soil in the wild for Darlingtonia Californica Othello is....... I know it was found in the Sierra Navada location but what was the medium that Mr.Berry rice found it in. Was it it Live sphagnum moss ? Was it serpintine ? Or was it Peatmoss ? Dose anyone know what the original medium the plant was found in ?
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Post by H2O on May 20, 2015 12:12:34 GMT -5
Impossible to say, that location has been kept secret to all but a handful of people. I highly doubt any additional information will be released.
They should be fine in any mix that regular Darlingtonia grow in. They're just terribly slow growers. That Antho-free for you.
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Post by Apoplast on May 20, 2015 19:43:40 GMT -5
Hi OntarioTraps - Though H2O is completely correct, the entire Sierras are a granitic range, those the exact composition varies a bit. The populations I've seen there are in essentially decomposed granite of some sort, in either seeps, or springs/spring fed creeks. The water level doesn't change much in these, though I can't be sure of that this summer. The soils at the sites I have been to are quite gritty, with little organic composition. The water seems to flow as well through the soil as over it. I'm sure and antho-free form will grow in any media that any other form will, as H2O said, but that's the conditions on the ground in the Sierra Navada as I have seen them (also essentially the samein the Klamath Mountains if that's of interest).
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Post by ontariotraps on May 21, 2015 3:31:26 GMT -5
Cool it's not that I was gonna replicate although it would be nice but it's just good to know, ya know
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