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[Oleksii]

I was gifted with this plant. On cpp I found few photos with leaves like mine plant have. Also, in cultivar description is written: "They divide irregularly into two to eight points...". If I correctly understand, mine shows division into two points, so, perhaps, all is normal

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But, does it need dormancy? I have read somewhere that dichotoma need and multifida does not. Have I to observe whether it make winter bud?

Edited by Oleksii, 20 July 2012 - 10:02 AM.

[Amar]

D. 'Marston Dragon' does not divide into 8 points, only 4 points, resembling the foot of a dragon.
http://img138.images...8/2415/18gj.jpg

[Amar]

Sorry, I now just also read in the cultivar description, 2 to 8 points. 4 is the norm, have never seen more than 4 I think..

[Oleksii]

I found that adult plants grow leaves with 4 points, so my are normal, just young

[Oleksii]

I made one attempt to multiply my binata. I saw this method here and decided to repeat.
And it works :) There are 6 plantlets. I'll wait when all of them will become have more then one leaf and then I'll put them in pot

Edited by Oleksii, 10 August 2012 - 20:16 PM.

[bugmuncher]

hi , how long did it take to produce the plantlets? did you use distilled water or is tap water ok to use
thanks
dave

[Oleksii]

Hi. I suppose that it have taken near 3 weeks or month, not more.
I used distilled water which I use to water my CP
Oleksii

[bugmuncher]

ok thanks i will try this myself
thanks
dave

[Oleksii]

At last we got fine warm weather and I decided to plant seeds of wintergrowing sundews, like D.menziesii ssp. menziesii and some others.


One thing I am thinking about is do I have to cover pots with seeds with some glassy lid. I usually do it for most seeds which I tried to germinate to keep humidity, but this is not that  case, so, perhaps, no.
And do I have to start watering pots near mid of September?

Other and good thing is germinating of D. burmanii

There are a lot of plantlets, so I suppose it time to fed them ;)

Edited by Oleksii, 18 August 2012 - 20:29 PM.

[Oleksii]

Small update.
It looks that my 'Marston Dragon' is ready for growing adult leaves

[will9]

The seedlings are for sure not burmanii,
Cheers Will

[will9]

burmanii ,I wundering if she are ,post another pic whitin a month or so,i can not edit my post ,

[Oleksii]

Yes, at first look I also thought that not burmanii. But there were very cloudy dark and cold weather, so they could became abnormally long. So will see in future

[Oleksii]

Hi! Little update.
I got small piece of miracle - started second wave of indica germination. I didn't expect this but it was suitable weather, so:



Hope, this weather will be for a long time.
Neighbor of indica pot is burmanii one. Most of the seedlings are near reddish, only some under pot rim shadow are pure green.

Perhaps, I have to feed them, but how? There was a lot of whiteflies (don't know how it correctly in English) last year, so CP had really good banquet,  but not this year. It was like at photo (sorry, it butterworts)

Now I have dry fish food (Daphnia) and peptone powder. Can I dust seedlings by peptone or it will be beter to make solution and put drops of it. Or something with fish food? Please, help me with desition.
And two more pictures: capensis flower and pollen grain



Thanks!
Oleksii

Edited by Oleksii, 01 September 2012 - 22:02 PM.

[Oleksii]

Oh, I have forgotten one thing. I planted tuberous sundews seed on sand mix some few weeks before and now I can't see any of them. Maybe my relatives moved pots and seeds went into sand. Is it something to worry about or they will germinate?

[Oleksii]

Update of "bottle" experiment

Finding this way of propagation quite successful I decided to make same thing with filiformis. It didn't look optimistic for me,but I was wrong