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How to propagate Drosera cuttings in water (with photos)

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Started by cgarry , May 13 2006 13:56 PM

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Posted 01 June 2007 - 12:17 PM

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This is a really useful post, thanks. :tu:

I want to have a go at this with my d. binata - all I need to know is, is this a good time of year to be having a bash?  :?

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Posted 01 June 2007 - 12:53 PM

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I think this would be an ideal time of year to give it a go, the new plants should then be a decent size before it is time for their winter dormancy.

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Posted 01 June 2007 - 20:44 PM

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I never had luck with leaf floatings but I will try again.

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Posted 01 June 2007 - 22:47 PM

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The same technique works with leaf cuttings of D.slackii & root cuttings of D.regia

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Posted 02 June 2007 - 07:15 AM

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What a great post!  :shock:
I think there should be a section in this forum where such kind of manuals should be collected, either that, or sticky in the drosera section? (ha, pun not intended!)

oh...that's what the faq section is meant for...? duhh..

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Posted 02 June 2007 - 08:01 AM

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Well I am sorta happy with my tc stuff,
A ping leaf sprouted invirto :) It is really
boring looking give it a few weeks.
10,000,000 capensis anyone ?  :shock:

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Posted 02 June 2007 - 11:33 AM

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It works fine with:

D. cistiflora (only the bottom leaves)
D. coccipetala
D. filiformis (red form and all hybrids)
D. hamiltonii
D. neocaledonica
D. roraimae
D. schizandra
D. whittakeri (tuberous!)
D. villosa

D. muscipula

and many others



It works not with:

D. ramentacea
D. stenopetala


Cheers
Jürgen

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Posted 02 June 2007 - 11:38 AM

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jm82792 said:

10,000,000 capensis anyone ?  :shock:

I'll take one. :D

9,999,999 capensis anyone?   :D

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Posted 02 June 2007 - 14:25 PM

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i'll take 1000 if you really need to!  :D  :shock:

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Posted 02 June 2007 - 18:47 PM

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Well not really but it would do that if you had one in a bog given a couple years !

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:smile: This is killer info and beautyful pics guys and info ,take care .
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 18:24 PM

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I noticed that some of the photos in the original post had gone missing, not sure why.  I have now uploaded all the photos to CPUK Photo Hosting and edited the original post to use them instead so all the photos should be visible again now.

Cheers,

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Posted 15 May 2008 - 21:38 PM

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Great thread I cant wait to try this out.

Can you use Deionised Water if you run out of rainwater to water cp's?

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Posted 15 May 2008 - 22:06 PM

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Yes :smile:

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Posted 16 May 2008 - 12:29 PM

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This works well:

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Posted 16 May 2008 - 12:52 PM

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I've just tried this with some d. filiformis I received today from Howard as many of the leaves had snapped. Would be a shame to waste them :smile:

Unfortunately, I don't have any appropriate air tight containers at the moment - I'll have to get some soon and then transfer the cuttings.

Wish me luck! :wink:

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Posted 17 May 2008 - 17:40 PM

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You can lay them out flat in a container on moist media.

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Posted 17 May 2008 - 22:44 PM

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Had high success rate with leaves of D.slackii with deionised water.

Cheers,

Chris

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Posted 17 May 2008 - 22:50 PM

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Just curious, has anyone tried to propagate pygmy Dros by leaf cuttings, either by water, or otherwise?  - Rich

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Posted 17 May 2008 - 23:00 PM

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View Postrsivertsen, on 17th May 2008 - 23:50 PM, said:

Just curious, has anyone tried to propagate pygmy Dros by leaf cuttings, either by water, or otherwise?  - Rich

I doubt it seeing as gemmae is such an easy way of propagating them.
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