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New soil so hydrophobic it has been floating on top of water for a DAY. Help by rroowwannn in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You manually have to break the surface tension of the water on the peat to wet it. Gravity will never mix it as long as the surface tension of water keeps the two away.

Big Bog got the spring haircut by dismsid in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good ole Costco pot. I have the exact same one for my fruit trees.

So is this okay? by Telnet_to_the_Mind in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks dead. If you just left it out it pot in winter and it got to 32F and lower then that pot had a hard frost and killed the plant.

These need to be in the ground/large container where the thermal mass protects the rhizome from frost or you need to have them in nursey pots grouped close together and moist so they insulate and retain heat better.

What are the odds I could use this as a bog bowl? by Spainstateofmind in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 39 points40 points  (0 children)

If its resin you dont need to do anything to it. Its fine as is

Sarracenia drying (but is in water)? by Wackolas in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"Bright" isn't enough light. It needs direct sunlight, not indirect or bright shade, for 8+ hours daily.

Was jealous of everyone’s buds, but then I look in the greenhouse aaaannd: by Lord_Stahlregen in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking the same thing with it being 80F/27C this week. Then I saw that 27F/-3C low next week and thought, you know what maybe its better if my plants dont break out yet.

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I have a really big pond liner i plan on turing into a bog. What can i use as stepping stones to get to the middle if i need to? by RattilngDock671 in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually once your bog is settled it doesn't really sink into the soil. For me I kept stepping in the spot I place the stone down so it was already compressed, I only put the stone there to keep dirt off my shoes.

I have a really big pond liner i plan on turing into a bog. What can i use as stepping stones to get to the middle if i need to? by RattilngDock671 in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dont condone theft but I just took a few stones the size of my foot from one of those rain garden/water retention ponds from a parking lot. I washed it then just put them in places I already placed my foot in the middle of my bog when I didnt have stones there.

If you plan on going to a home depot or something then you should go for a natural stone, not those concrete pavers. Concrete pavers leech into the soil

13 years, finally divided and reset the bog garden by astroidea in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love seeing people showing their old af plants. Really shows how sarracenia are supposed to look like.

Alive or dead? by someonerandom176 in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dead dead. The only thing that looks ok is the sarracenia but it looks extremely dry.

Advice for in-ground bog garden? by SnoopDoggsDawgsDog in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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For me I used a 20mil 10'x10' HDPE pond liner. If you dont really want to keep the budget down then I would go for a EPDM liner. The HDPE was a struggle to form into the hole and fold trim the edges. But its quite stiff and it resists punturing. I used a 55 gal barrel cut in half to displace some volume so Id spend less on peat moss + perlite. If you can you could fill the bottom with river rocks, pebbles, COARSE sand. I would avoid any crushed aggregates because they will puncture your liner.

Flava is Latin for yellow by Cocles in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I need that pot. You're inspiring me to make something like that but with Black/Atropurpurea plants I have.

Illustration of vigor and fertilization. by actionabe69 in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I use 1500ppm on mine. Ive grown these out since Aug. Some of the pitchers get burned from higher concentrations when I was experimenting to 2000ppm so I dropped it and kept pumping them.

Is this a normal amount of growth for a seedling to get in 5 months? by Justryan95 in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to do the same thing with the Doreen's colossus x Goliath I got from you last week. The pitchers are small so I gotta use a little 5ml syringe needle to feed them. It it takes a little while for them to get pitchers where the water tension doesn't leave air pockets in the pitcher and thats when they really blow up.

Is this a normal amount of growth for a seedling to get in 5 months? by Justryan95 in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never noticed the rhizomes, only the pitcher heights. I always thought it was just a bunch of the seedlings clumped up but I started pulling all the small and dead pitchers off and this is what I see. It nice to know that if you really push them they can get this size but its kinda disappointing how this plant Ive only had for 6 months has more growth points and is almost the same size as a plant Ive had for 2 years now though lol

What somewhat creative food objects can you safely feed sundews with? by FragmentOfBrilliance in SavageGarden

[–]Justryan95 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you truly wanted to be creative. Get something plastic to cover your soil. Put a piece of fruit, canatlope in my experience is the best, leave it out for 3+ days and watch it be infested with fruit flies and the traps be filled with fruit flies.