| Wow, what a haul! You can grow them in regular AV soil. I use my regular houseplant mix which is 3 parts Canadian sphagnum peatmoss, two parts perlite and one part vermiculite. Most use a basic 1-1-1 mix or these and some just eliminate the vermiculite. But a store bought AV mix is fine. They are quite tough. Plant the rhizomes horizontally about an inch under the soil. You can pot them with the pots only about 2/3 full, and then put the rhizome in shallowly so that later on you can add soil around the stem. Keep the pots moist and they should sprout. Grow them indoors in a bright windowsill or under lights. About your plants: (OK, I'm showing off (again)) Pele: grows tall, very vigorous, Patrick once harvested a single rhizome that circled around the pot many times--3'long. Flowers finely spotted with mix of purple, yellow, looking like lava. Bach: ? I think it also has very fine spotting, grows medium high Frances B: An oldie with nice spotted smallish flowers, red spots over creamy white I think. bogotensis: a choice one with wonderful foliage, gray with a herringbone pattern. Spotted flowers with two background colors, yellow on upper petals and red on lower petals. Can get tall but usually medium high. Carnival: An old Kartuz hybrid. My plant doesn't fit description but it is supposed to have medium to large spotted red flowers. Gets good comments in discussions. Emily Roberts: Like Bach, a Roberts' hybrid with fine spotting and medium to compact habit. Brimstone: A Boggan hybrid of bogotensis with very nice foliage and somewhat small flowers Flashdance: I have this one though it isn't common and we don't know how it originated. It is another medium sized spotted flower on a medium to tall plant. It may have originated with Tim Anderson in Florida. amabilis: The choicest species to grow. Stays small and can be difficult. Give it extra humidity and keep it evenly moist. Nice spotted red-lavender large flat flowers. It has green and brown patterned foliage. Rongo, an old hybrid that was very popular in its day. Nice flowers on a vigorous plant that gets medium tall. Punch: A smaller grower that spreads horizontally with nice medium to small flowers red spotted over white. Boggan hybrid. Jon ;) | 
