Paul Mitchell wrote:
Stepping aside from the largely lamented lumping of Laeliinae of late, I am curious to know what happened to Servo, the bagasse based mix for potting orchids that had a brief, popular run some years ago. It was compounded of sugarcane bagasse, hardwood charcoal and styrofoam pearls, as i recall. I found it useful for growing certain types of orchid, although not all types of orchids. Certain types of orchids that I had in it grew like gangbusters. I did an online search and cannot seem to find more than a single reference to using Google. Maybe someone in the southeast US or elsewhere might know something about this mix that they can share with us. Regards, Paul Mitchell Tampa, FL / Alajuela, CR I don't know what search you did on Google but I got literally hundreds of hits for "bagasse", "bagasse orchid mix", "bagasse orchid mix retail" and do not have the time to search through all of them. I'm sure you could spend the better part of a day reading all you'd like to about bagasse. I didn't quickly find any retailers for bagasse orchid mix only for paper plates etc made from bagasse. I personally don't see much difference between growing in bagasse and growing in horse manure except from the septic standpoint. Apparently neither one has an extremely large following as commercial mixes of neither one are advertised or dispersed widely. Anyway, have fun. Gary _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
