I've been noticing for a while that the tray of distilled water it sits in has been reading 40-50PPM. All my other carnivore trays read 15-25ppm max.

I ran distilled water through all the other carnivores that sit in the same tray as the cephalotus in the picture. The water all read around 30-50ppm.

When I ran water through the cephalotus itself, as you can see it was reading 110PM.

I understand over time, if you have lots of plants sitting in a tray together, then its normal for it not to read 0PPM exactly, but 110 is far above my usual accepted standard of 20PPM max.

– Is this emergency repot worthy?

– What could be causing this? I got this from California Carnivores like 3 years ago and it has been doing great. The only thing that's noteworthy, is that last year this plant completely died back on me, only started regrowing like this 6 months ago.

– Should I repot everything else that was sitting in the same tray as it?

– I do not have good quality sand. Could I repot this in a super perlite-heavy mix of like 60/40 Perlite/Peat Moss? I have never repotted a ceph before. I know they like it sand-heavy, but wondering if that can be substituted with perlite.

Please help.

by Charming-Tradition-1

2 Comments

  1. bearminmum

    Something you can do in the meantime is to continue to flush the pot. I’m not a cephalotus person so I cannot answer those specific questions

  2. Thebeiben

    I agree with bear
    flush it, half gallon or so.

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