Beallara Tahoma Glacier
Jan. 27, 2015: This Beallara Tahoma Glacier is the first plant I bought for the New Year. I had her in the living room for a couple of weeks before I decided to take on this project. Just yesterday I pollinated the bottom flower with the pollen from the Beallara Marfitch Howards Dream so I'm excited to update the progress of the flower as (hopefully) she grows a seed pod. Overall she looks very good. I will be repotting her when she drops her flowers.
Feb. 13, 2015: Well, the Tahoma Glacier finally dropped her flowers. Sad to see them go, but I was getting pretty anxious to get her repotted. Strangely (or maybe not), she was planted almost entirely in potting soil. There was a stubborn tiny group of sphagnum moss in the very center of her roots, but otherwise the entire mixture was regular ol' potting soil. So I have now cleaned off her roots, sprayed them with hydrogen peroxide and potted her in a nice new pot with a mix of bark, sphagnum moss, a little bit of charcoal and perlite. She's living in the brightest room in the front of the house where she'll get sun from the North.