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by margaret e. pell on June 10, 2006 05:30 PM
Hi, Holly ![[wavey]](im/graemlins/wavey.gif)
. I have 2 philo's, too. One's huge (for a house plant) and I think it dreams of its Amazon heritage. The other is smaller and more containable. I have 2 pots of the smaller and another piece of it growing up the big one. I have them all potted in a good quality, store bought with no fertilizers added, potting soil. They are in plastic and glazed ceramic pots, since they like even moisture and not to get very dry. I've never heard of putting coffee beans on top (what a waste of coffee!). I assume this is to raise the acidity of the soil? Mine do fine without it. Tell us about yours. Do you have other plants, too? If you don't, you will ![[Wink]](im/wink.gif)
. That's just what happens.
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. I have 2 philo's, too. One's huge (for a house plant) and I think it dreams of its Amazon heritage. The other is smaller and more containable. I have 2 pots of the smaller and another piece of it growing up the big one. I have them all potted in a good quality, store bought with no fertilizers added, potting soil. They are in plastic and glazed ceramic pots, since they like even moisture and not to get very dry. I've never heard of putting coffee beans on top (what a waste of coffee!). I assume this is to raise the acidity of the soil? Mine do fine without it. Tell us about yours. Do you have other plants, too? If you don't, you will . That's just what happens.* * * *
may God bless the WHOLE world!
by Triss on June 10, 2006 05:52 PM
I have my two heart leafed philo's in regular soil as well, but it was miracle grow so it had fertilizers in it. They were both tiny things when I started them and are just getting to growing really nicely and filling in their pot and the space around them.
So they like adic soil? I would think used coffee grounds would help with that rather than beans.
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So they like adic soil? I would think used coffee grounds would help with that rather than beans.
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by Jiffymouse on June 11, 2006 05:27 PM
holly, you have gotten good advice here, and i took your email address out of the post as we don't allow public posting of email addresses because of spam bots.
by Tonya on June 13, 2006 02:45 PM
My philos seem to do quite well in store bought potting soil. I rarely feed them and they grow nicely. Good luck and welcome to the forum!
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by njoynit on June 17, 2006 01:47 AM
I have some in both potting mix and in ground.My 25 gallon potted philo is in a mix of potting mix(scotts) and whatever came out of flower bed that year with it.My inground ones just die back& re-sprout& actually show life growth wise before the CG ones.
I also got a divsion of a small leafed philo.I really like it.its growing in store potting mix.
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I also got a divsion of a small leafed philo.I really like it.its growing in store potting mix.
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