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[Loakesy]

Here's a 5 or 6 year old seedling that's starting to look really lovely, even if I do say so myself:


SP05b S. purpurea ssp. purpurea f. heterophylla - from seed

But such a slow grower...

[Alexis]

Very nice!

I've got an anthocyanin free gilpini x purpurea ssp. purp hybrid that is also about 5 years old and also a very slow grower.

Now yours is that size, you should find it easier to pop some bugs in yourself, which will help.

[billynomates666]

Lovely little plant Loakesy, you cant help but love the colour can you.

I've never grown these from seed before but I have got a hundred or so of this years seelings, off a purp hetro that I selfed last year, because of that and their naturaly slow growth habit, I was expecting them to grow very slowly, but they are (at the moment) racing away and are at least as big as my other sarr seedlings. Or do they do that then slow down in subsequent years?

Cheers
Steve

[Daniel G]

Very, very, very nice! It seems to be glowing!  

[Loakesy]

billynomates666, on 25 May 2012 - 12:31 PM, said:

... but they are (at the moment) racing away and are at least as big as my other sarr seedlings. Or do they do that then slow down in subsequent years?

It's just been a slow steady slog Steve. I would hope that growth will speed up now that it is able to catch some reasonably sized insects now though!