Sedirea Japonica (project plant) in S/H

[trdyl]

Originally Posted by luckygrower

I put my Sedirea Japonica in S/H on April 6,2008 for the project,it seems to be doing very well, but it has only been a month, if any one else has any success or failure with this in S/H please give comments. Here are some pictures of mine.

A few years back I had one in S/H and for the first 2 years it was growing like a weed. First years bloom, 2 spikes. The second years bloom, 5 spikes. Then on the third year it started declining rapidly. Don't know what caused the decline. But I am planning on trying again next Spring.

[Becca]

Just curious on what the status is on this? Is it still alive and thriving?

[trdyl]

Becca,

With mine, after the inital decline it was full gone in 6 months.

[Becca]

Ted sorry to hear that! Did you ever figure out what happened?

Luckygrower, how is yours doing?

[zxyqu]

Yeah that really stinks Ted, and it's quite unusual. What did the roots look like and how did it pass on? Lucky, also would love to hear how yours is doing. If the middle roots are black, and it was moved from some media to the S/H, this could be the roots not used to S/H dying, and giving way for newer roots that are accostumed to S/H. Hopefully that's the case, but the pics and the root growth looks good to me. Let us know how it's doing now

[Sun rm.N.E.]

Ted

I can sympathize. A similar thing happened to mine. The second set of beautiful healthy roots turned black as soon as they hit the leca. In the sunlight the salt build up was visible which happens with time no matter how well you rinse initially. I think these roots are very sensitive to salt toxicity.

Now I change out the top layers of leca before the new roots hit it and spray the top with pure water more frequently.

[trdyl]

Thinking back and seeing your comments Sun rm.N.E. it was probably due to salt build up. At the time I did not think anything of it. The phals were doing great. But thinking about it now, it was more than likely the salts that did it in. Thanks all.

[DelawareJim]

Originally Posted by luckygrower

Here are a couple of pics of the progress of my Sedirea today, still in S/H, you judge , is it happy or just living?

How is it doing a year on?

Cheers.
Jim