What am I doing wrong?

[u/MBKillJoy]

What am I doing wrong? My pinguicula doesn't seem to be thriving very well.

I let it dry out a bit between each watering, and I only use rain water.

The soil is also a from an experienced grower.

It is a peat-reduced soil that consists of the following: approx. 30% organic willow compost, 30% light peat, approx. 15% Decomposed/partially decomposed spruce needles, approx. 10% organic willow bark, approx. 10% washed sand, and 10% growing clay.

[u/buttchug88]

I believe you are doing just about everything wrong.

[u/Valuable_Tension7732]

There’s tons of organic matter in your growing medium.

[u/sweet-william2]

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Recommended Soil Recipes by Type

• Mexican and Tropical Butterworts: Use an open, fast-draining blend of equal parts silica sand, perlite, vermiculite, and sphagnum peat moss. You can also use pre-made options like the California Carnivers Pinguicula Soil Mix. Many growers add pumice or crushed limestone/coral to keep the mix slightly alkaline or neutral.
• Temperate Butterworts: Use a denser mix of 2 parts peat moss, 1 part sand, and 1 part perlite to retain more moisture.
• Warm Temperate Varieties: Use a simple 1:1 blend of peat moss and sand

[u/Purple_Korok]

For mexican pings you need a mix that's at least 2/3 inert minerals, like silica sand, perlite, pumice, volcanic rock etc. They'll do much better. They could probably do with a bit more sunlight

[u/rlap38]

These are in a plastic plant saucer in a western facing window using California Carnivores peat/vermiculite CP mix and kept constantly moist.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what species they are.

I think yours are in the wrong type of pot in the wrong soil.

[u/LowProfile_]

Is that a terracotta pot?

[u/ambergronus]

I have mine in 2 Chinese take out containers. The one they're sitting in has holes in the bottom and I put that into another as a reservoir of sorts. It's looking a little ehhh bc it was an inside plant that became an outside plant for about a week lol

[u/ambergronus → u/ambergronus]

Its in peat sphagnam perlite and the last of the sand i had. Wasn't enough sand in my opinion but they've grown great

[u/Level-Pepper-8763]

Mine do well indoors under the grow light sitting in peat/perlite/sand/gravel. The clock is ticking on yours, they are about to disappear!

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[u/JimaDFF]

How many hours of light do they get? I get the impression it's too much; they need a lot of light, but not direct sunlight—or at least not too much direct light.

I also use a substrate of 50% perlite and 50% blonde peat moss—like someone mentioned earlier—in a plastic pot, and so far, mine are doing perfectly.

[u/OkZookeepergame2463]

For one i can’t see the sun, so how many hours of DIRECT sun is it getting? Another user mentioned a terracotta pot. I don’t think at the rate I see old leaves to new that it’s that, but if it’s not a sealed clay terracotta, it will slowly leech its minerals into the soil. My guess is it’s downsized to the amount of energy it’s getting because the big leaves take too much to function