after a long time i'm here again. I want to show you the flower of my P. calyptrata. They comes from the ecuadorian andes. Or better, from the 'Cajas National Park' in Ecuador. The altitude from this park is beginning at 3.152m (!) and ends at 4.445m. 

Very low temperatures are required for successful growing! At day i have 17 degrees Celsius and at night they drops down to 3-5 dregrees. If it is too warm, they will die very quickly! 

I achieve these low temperatures in a converted mini fridge with a glass door. Some of you still know it from my U. campbelliana. These are still growing in this fridge with the calyptratas....

best regards

Tobias

What would your recommendation be for a potting mixture for Mexican Pinguiculas grown year round in a greenhouse kept at 15°C minimum AND with a relative humidy of 95+% day and night in winter.

Kenneth.

i lost one of mine P. planifolia. First I thought because of a fungus infection but then I saw some little yellow worms inbetween root system and leaves. They are app 1mm in length.

The leaves get yellow too in this area and die off. Roots are completley vital, white and strong. 
Does someone of you have an idea what kind of pests this is?

Kind regards 

Florian 

Here are photos from one of the locations:  Pinguicula medusina and P. moranensis in the Ixtepeji.

I have a lovely pinguicula gigantea. Last night I wanted to pull a leaf for propagation but unfortunately I also pulled the whole plant off of its bed. My concern is the plant has multiple crowns which I didn’t want to disentangle right now. I need advice on how to safely continue growing my ping. What I did was preparing a new soil mix which I filled a pot with. Because my ping has multiple crowns. I build a bit of “a hill” on top of the pot to put my ping on it so that the tiny roots can have contact with the new medium. It seems alright now but I am worried that I did not burry the roots like one does when reporting plants but pressed the plant on top on the soil. Help me figure out the best strategy with this. Should I just leave the plant the way I had repoted it or should I necessarily disentangle the crowns and pot them individually? My desire for now is to keep the crowns altogether but I will disentangle them if that’s what required for the plant to survive. Thank you.

Cheers

SteveC

I don´t have experience with Pings as i have only grown P.esseriana and P.ehlersiae for the last year and have never grown pings from seed.

Any help will be apreciated.

Regards,

Sebastian

in the past i have already successfully made invitro with drosera seeds. Now i would like to try with Ping seeds. Especially with Pinguicula lutea. But these are soft shelled and must not be so hard sterilised like Drosera seeds.

Does anyone reveal a sterilise protocol? I would try a half strenght MS media with vitamins and pH 5.6.

For most drosera seeds for example i use 20% bleach for 3min and 2 times rinse with sterile water. It works great.

Many thanks and regards

Tobias

Premiere this evening 18:00 CET or 17:00 GMT on a vid I made last summer looking for pinguicula vulgaris:

If you have nothing else to do, please join me in the chat. If not, the vid will be awailable after the premiere as well.

Please let me know what you think.

BR

Magnus

Recently my Butterwort hasn't been looking great, some of its leaves are yellowing and patches of white mould are growing. It's on a South facing windowsill, so gets a good amount of sunlight, and is in a saucer with Deionised water in, that I let soak up before adding more. Would it be a good idea to cut off the bad leaves? I'd really appreciate any help. 

May I use for it the same substrate that I use for my other Mexican Pings? Would it fit? I don't know where I could find gypsum...

Thank you for your help.

Sincerely.

As I am a newbie in the culture of Mexican Pinguicula, could you please confirm that this P. laueana is making its winter leaves?

So, how should I water it now? Until now it was in a tray with 2 cm of water, but I just put it out. Should I let it dry completely? Or should I carry on watering and if yes for how long?

Thank you for your help

I have found a lot of butterworts in Alps (Switzerland) and I am thinking if it is P. vulgaris or P. leptoceras. Maybe somebody can identify this plant?

It started losing leaves to rot growing from the edges. At first I thought this was because of the humid substrate bulging out of the pot rim, so I removed some so it wouldn't touch the leaves. In the meantime I cut 2 leaves to try propagation. But now the rot is expanding faster and to younger leaves that are not even touching the substrate. It is putting out leaves and flowers at a fast pace, but I'm starting to fear the rot will outpace new leaf growth.

Temperature is currently above 25ºC during the day, so it's quite hot.

Is this a fungal infection? I sprayed fungicide today just in case.

Would more light help avoid this? Should I move it to a location where it gets direct sunlight until 9-10 AM?

Any help is appreciated.

Here, a large flowering clump of P. vallisneriifolia. One of my favourite species, fortunately still with several healthy populations with hundreds to thousands of plants.

This species typically grows on calcareous cliffs that are very wet year round, often with some running water. Cold in winter, with frequent frosts (but not or rarely freezing solid), and hot in summer, although the places where the plants sit remain relatively fresh. 

It is one of the largest species, large adult plants may have leaves over 25 cm long!

I hope you like it.

First of all,

Pinguicula ramosa,

But before I go ahead and make a purchase online (they don't seem to be available in Finland), I tried to find some general care tips to increase my chances of success in growing this plant. Forgive my total ignorance, but from what I have already gathered, these are warm growers (perfect for me as I can only grow it on a windowsill), and they require that their soil stays damp, less so in winter. I've understood that in winter they start their dormant period and their leaves change, and as such they don't require bugs to survive. Correct me if I'm wrong - they do require some type of bug-food source to thrive outside of their dormancy, and if so, what is it that they need specifically. Are they self-sufficient during the spring-summer-fall months or do I have to do anything extra for them apart from the waterings? In summers I tend to get a lot of fruit flies, which isn't the case during fall-winter months, but will these type of flies do?

Also, I've managed to find a seller of this plant online who ships from Hungary to Finland, but knowing they don't tolerate the cold, I'm worried if buying it now won't mean its certain death. What would you do? Buy or wait until it's warmer outside? Currently, it's around -10C/-15C around here.

Sorry for the long and very basic questions, but I haven't been able to find anything about this, as everyone here seems to already possess the basic knowledge already! Thank you so much for your help!

So I've got 2 Pinguiculas: 

P.'weser'x jaumavensis 

P.zecheri x jaumavensis

Just wondering what sort of media these guys should ideally be in (closest to their natural habitats in Mexico). 

I have read that they grow in alkaline pH soils, lime etc..

What would the pH ideally be if I go and buy say, garden lime or something? 

Cheers