Oh No! A Boophone disaster!
Tim Harvey (Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:39:45 PDT)
Ken,
I grow almost all my plants in 90% pumice 10% sand/clay, no organics. My collection turned into a mushroom farm when the winter rains started in SoCal. The 40% perlite mix you mention would be too wet for my preference. My seed mix is 90% pumice 10% perlite, and I do quite well with everything from Lachenalia to Aloe to Cyphostemma to Brunsvigia.
T
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 22:12:12 -0700
From: kjblack@pacbell.net
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [pbs] Oh No! A Boophone disaster!
Thank you, Jacob!
I will take your advice and repot in a mostly pumice medium, most likely with no organic material. These had been in a homemade soil mix of about 40% DG, 40% perlite, 10% local (clayish) soil and 10% home-made fine compost. I will leave out local soil and compost ... what do you think of perlite as an component with pumice? Coastal San Diego is usually relatively cool, but I should have been more aware of the hot humid weather that can occur here in late summer.
Ken
From: Jacob Knecht <jacobknecht@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Oh No! A Boophone disaster!
(... was due to and was accelerated by the high humidity ...
...
and let them dry and callous for a week or two before
re-potting into pure pumice. It took a few months of watering very
sparingly and being patient for the bulb to resume leaf growth only a week
ago.
Although losing so many roots may set your *Boophone* back, as long as their
basal plates are intact, I think they will be fine. However I would repot
them into a medium that has a high gas exchange to moisture retention ratio,
and water sparingly until they have shown a positive response with new leaf
growth (usually predicated by new roots).
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