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[Mujician]

I'd like to get some pinguicula, so naturally I have some questions.

I'm guessing it's okay for temperate sps to live outside all year round. How does the care differ with Mexican sps? Do these require a period of dormancy or do they grow all year round?

Also, are there any different cultivars of pings? I believe that grandiflora and vulgaris have purple flowers. Is it possible to get them with different flower colours or even leaf colours? Where might I find a good selection of plants and fresh seeds to choose from?

[Ian Salter]

Have a look here at the many different ping's.       http://www.cpphotofinder.com/

Te temperate ping's differ from the mexican ping's by the fact that temperate ping's can live outside all year round with no problems.  Mexican ping's on the other hand can not tolerate temperatures below 5 degrees c.  They also do not like direct harsh sunlight and really need to be indoors all year round.

Hope this helps a little!

Dianne

[ada]

There are four colour flower forms of P.grandiflora available.P.alpina has forms with very red leaves so does p.balcanica and p.poldinii,but some of these are hard to get hold of and not best suited to begginers.

Temperate pings are best grown cool or outdoors all the time.In the autumn when dormant you may be able to purchase some gemmae(small winter resting buds)that will grow into plants in spring.
Seed is best sown very fresh,if stored over winter in packets,they dont have very good germination rates.
I have some p.grandiflora rosea seed now,but i will be sowing it soon if no one wants any more.
p.m me for details.
ada

[Richard Bunn]

Get some of Ada's P. grandiflora rosea seeds.  I bought some after he posted a photo of his plants. Gorgeous. Also Daniel G has some seeds of the regular grandiflora available fresh at the moment.

Edited by Richard Bunn, 14 July 2012 - 20:18 PM.

[Mujician]

I came home from my local garden centre with a butterwort. It was only labelled carnivorous plant mix. I'd have guessed it would be grandiflora however the flower is very light purple. Not the typical dark flower you see in google images. Any ideas what this plant may be?

[Richard Bunn]

No ideas if you don't upload a photo. It's unlikely a garden centre would be selling a grandiflora anyway. Having said that, my first grandiflora came from a garden centre 20 years ago but that was because they bought in some Marston Exotics plants.

[Mujician]

I'll get some photos tomorrow. I also got a baby sarracenia too but they are never labelled at garden centres. I thought there might be one particular species that is propagated specifically for garden centres.

[Richard Bunn]

Pretty much all gc Sarracenias are hybrids.  Some are based on purpurea or Catesbaei, some leucophylla, some psittacina.  Those are the 'types'.