I use an ordinary potting mix (Supersoil), and add perlite and bark chips. Mine are in two gallon pots with the bulb sitting on the surface of the mix and some of the roots exposed. They must have shade. Mine (I have about a dozen bulbs) are flourishing, and some bloomed twice last year. I use a liquid fertilizer when I remember. The temperatures here are very moderate, but they are in a greenhouse that can sometimes get up to about 90F, although night temperatures are around 50F. The greenhouse I had them in last year was old with very dirty yellowed fiberglass covering and they loved the low light. Diana Telos P.S. I don't have any available for sale. ----- Original Message ----- From: "sheilab" <sheila1@iinet.net.au> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Pamianthe peruviana > Kevin, > here is a copy of a reply from Alan Meerow to the same question asked by J. > Shields in 1999 on another forum. > > Regards Sheila > > >I had the most sucess with Pamianthe growing them as epiphytes (which they > >are > in nature), in clay pots. The bulb should sit on the surface of the medium. > I > used a mix of seedling grade tree fern, seedling grade fir bark, perlite, > and > experimented with various amounts of peat. Finely ditched the peat > altogether. > > I recommend that once established with several leaves, a decent-sized > seedling > bulb, and the conspicuous pseudostem that this species produces, that you > move > them into the above mix (2 parts fern, two parts bark, 1 part perlite). > > Alan < > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php