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Seedy Subjects! => Grow From Seed => Topic started by: Cephalotus on December 24, 2017, 01:13:30 AM
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Hello everyone,
I won't be able to show you any photos, because I couldn't find any. I am sincerely sorry for that, but you will have to believe my words on that. Spiranthes aestivalis can grow perfectly in a full sun in constantly humid/wet conditions and in a calcareous peat bog. Nothing special, I know unless I add that it can self sow itself too! To do that it needs only Primula farinosa as a companion! It germinates only in between its roots or very close by the clumps. I had such experience twice in two different peat bogs. I only had too little light at my peat bog, so in someone else's garden I made another one, but in full sun. I also planted Primula farinosa there and Spiranthes aestivalis, after four years, there were additional nine matured plants of S. aestivalis. I really wish I could show you photos, but for unknown reason I just did none. :/ The soil mix is simple peat: sand : calcareous rock with proportions around 1:1:1. You can use dolomite or marl rock to provide calcareous ions. You can now grow Spiranthes aestivalis same easily as Dactylorhiza majalis and Listera ovata. :) You now need just seeds and your years for your own matures Spiranthes aestivalis, have fun!