Dear Josh, David Pilling created a nice feature on the Pacific Bulb Society web pages where you can search previous messages on this list by Google. It wasn't working very well recently, but he wrote them and it seems to be much better again. Unfortunately they throw in a few ads for good measure, but still you can get a list of what people have said in the past when we discussed things like potting mixes and using coir. There are some threads that come up from time to time and it's always a good place to look first when you have a question. Much wisdom has been shared on this list since 2002. <http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php> As I recall there were some negative responses and some positive ones about using coir. On a recent trip to South Africa, I helped Rod and Rachel Saunders repot some Scadoxus to sell and they were growing them in pure coir, nothing else. When I asked about this, remembering that people had said they had lost things using coir, Rod told me that you needed to wash it many times before using it to be sure that you have removed the salt from it. But then they found it worked quite well. It reminded me that I once heard a lecture on insectivorous plants by a man who had written a great book about growing them and he lost everything using coir, but I don't know if he washed it first. Mary Sue