Re: [Aroid-l] Cyrtosperma growing media suggestions...

From: "John Criswick" <criswick at spiceisle.com> on 2009.10.09 at 15:53:05(20173) Well I’ve just readthis Julius, after posting my own experience with C. johnstonii. I am amazed. AmI just lucky? It’s certainly not hard to grow, rather it is, as they sayhere, “hard to dead” ! John. From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com[mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] OnBehalf Of ju-bo@msn.com HTML +More Sent: Thursday, October 08, 20096:36 AM To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Cyrtospermagrowing media suggestions... Dear Jeremy, If almost the entire pot will be submerged, then your potting/growing mediummust be all coarse sand! Any ''potting soil'' which you then submergewill rot, killing your plant. Both FairchildGardens in Miami and the late Dr. Monroe Birdsey usedthis ''pure coarse sand'' in their pots which were completely submerged inlarge tanks/pools which contained MANY fish, the fishs waste provided thenecessary fertilizer. See my article on growing Urospathas (a Neotropical genus much like the AsianCyrtospermas) in Aroideana Vol. 16, pgs. 33-36. I also grew many Cyrtosperma sps, and the method has to be the same. I learned the hard way (experience) and lost several irreplaceable specimens fromhaving the ''soil'' rot when the pot was submerged. When the dead plantwas un-potted, the rotten soil smelt like a corpse. Good luck. Write to me off-l and I`ll explain (if you`d like me to)on another method where only the bottom 3" or so of the pot is submerged,and inside this portion of the pot is only drainage rock/material, NO SOIL! Good Growing, Julius Boos WPB, FLORIDA Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:09:15 +1100 From: drplantman@gmail.com To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: [Aroid-l] Cyrtosperma growing media suggestions... Hiya Aroid-ers, Just after some suggestions about Cyrtosperma growing media (for C. johnstoniiin particular). I've got them in a heated glasshouse (16C minimum) with highhumidity (+85%) and am looking to have said aroid of choice standing in a largecement urn full of water - the growing crown will be above the waterline, butthe bulk of the media and pot will be submerged. Any suggestions welcome, and thanks in advance! Jeremy RBG Melbourne Australia No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.3/2414 - Release Date: 10/08/09 18:33:00 ------=_NextPart_000_0516_01CA48D7.12212110----==============Y52203207814770524=

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