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[Christian]

Hi Stephen,

nice hybrid! I am still wondering why the plants are still relatively small for three years. I have already grown both parents from seed to flower size within two years. Anyway, if you ever have one spare, please put me on the list ;) ;)

Christian

[gardenofeden]

Christian, I treat them badly! Don't repot very often, low light levels and hardly any heat in winter! I'll take some leaf cuttings in spring....

[Christian]

Hi Stephen,

i could imagine, that leaf cuttings won't work too well. I have never managed to get successfull leaf cuttings from D. ramentacea and only had success with the D. cuneifolia form from the Table Mountain. All attemps with the Silvermine Form so far failed. Will be interesting to hear if you have success with leaf cuttings.

Christian

[gardenofeden]

oh dear! It will have to be roots then!

[gardenofeden]

well root cuttings seemed to have worked!

Drosera cuneifolia x ramentacea root cutting by gardenofeden67, on Flickr
have not tried leaves yet, adult plants were not too happy about having roots removed.....

[-Xeno-]

Very interesting hybrid, they seem to have more ramentacea influence than cuneifolia.

[cloclo]

I am very interested by this subject, i always wanted to make hybridization but with droseras it's very difficult, the flower is too small.
How did you do that?

[gardenofeden]

Remember these? Well I have selected out and propagated what I think are the 3 best clones:
Photos from last year of all the plants:

cuneifolia x ramentacea2 by gardenofeden67, on Flickr

cuneifolia x ramentacea by gardenofeden67, on Flickr

New photos, including from today:
This is Clone #1, the first to be selected from the batch.  It is the largest and most vigorous of all the progeny, and superficially resembles the D.ramentacea parent in morphology. It has very hairy petioles and laminas.

cuneifolia x ramentacea #1 11 by gardenofeden67, on Flickr

Clone 1, potful of plantlets from root cuttings

cuneifolia x ramentacea #1 14 by gardenofeden67, on Flickr

Clone 1, plantlet from root cuttings

cuneifolia x ramentacea #1 15 by gardenofeden67, on Flickr

This is clone #2.  A compact grower with good shape and spatulate leaves.

cuneifolia x ramentacea #2 04 by gardenofeden67, on Flickr


cuneifolia x ramentacea #2 09 by gardenofeden67, on Flickr

This is clone #3, somewhat inbetween clones 1 and 2 in characteristics.

cuneifolia x ramentacea #3 03 by gardenofeden67, on Flickr

[TheInactiveMoth]

I have to say that I don't know either of those species.... but I love your hybrid!

[Dave Evans]

gardenofeden, on 12 June 2011 - 07:33 AM, said:

have not tried leaves yet, adult plants were not too happy about having roots removed...

Dear Stephen,

Glad the cuttings are working.  I wanted to mention, when you do take root cuttings, it actually isn't a bad idea to remove some foliage too.  Reduces the load on the remaining roots and the stress on the plant.