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Coffee works well as well, caffeine is impossibly toxic to slugs. Grounds don't work as well as fresh coffee left to cool and poured into the soil.

Regarding Ivy, it's actually proven to not damage buildings, they merely exploit weaknesses that would normally have occurred, they actually provide a very good thermal and protective barrier, see "misconceptions of growth" Alan simson. I agree with Darrel, most climbers are pretty thuggish as...

Cheers Darrel. This is the plant: http://www.easyorchids.co.uk/shop/Dendr ... y-Oda.html It's very nice, I've got it on a inverted dish sitting in a bowl of old AS acting as a wick to raise the humidity. Mines in full flower with some 9 odd spikes. Should I still soak them over night and mist...

Hey Darrel, calling on you again, what's the best way of keeping Dendrobium sp? I got given one and I haven't a clue where to start, all my books skirt over dendro's. Thanks in advance. Gareth.

Still no luck with the orchid coaxing it back into flowering so I decided to see what's cracking off inside the pot, opened it up to find about 200 mealy bug like creatures inside the hollow shells of the roots. So there's the issue! So now after trimming back 90% of the dead roots off I'm left...

Yup it's still got loads of leaves, I mist it three times a day already. I also soak the plant once a week in a bucket of tepid water over night. I think it could well be that I changed over pots after speaking with a grower at a show who recommended a clay orchid dish with a vat of water in...

Bit of a bump, but when I moved house in february the flower spikes on my moth orchid got snapped while moving and since it's been getting slowly more tatty, though the number of leaves have increased they keep splitting and the roots have gone a tan brown. This is the first time I've known the...

Some will be but normally only what's provided from the water. Orchid food mixes are normally high in traces but very low in everything else.

Most likely a phaeladron then. They're becoming much more common since growers have introduced cell culturing. If you've got ro water, make a mix of half normal water and half ro. Then mist it, never water into the substrate. keeping them in a glass vase so the roots are able to...

I've grown quiet a few now and the easiest thing is just to mist them regularly and make sure that any water used is about a week old (I think chlorine affects them). Philaeadrons are the easiest by far. I found they reacted badly to too much nutrients.