-
Posts
200 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
7
Content Type
Profiles
Events
Forums
Gallery
Blogs
Everything posted by Cephalotus
-
When I was growing mine under 3 x 18W it was never so deep in colour than when I put it outside to direct sun light. I think that 110W cannot compete with sun light in summer, plus I think the light wave length proportions are different. Still, your flower is a bit pale and I think that is it the mostly cause of light. It looks from the flower more like G. hispidula 'Mkambati'.
-
Your Genlisea subglabra look very pale... Mine was much more intense in colour as well as in terrarium and outdoor. But that one cannot be mistaken if it goes for leafs. :) Beside the African species, maybe except G. margaretae, grow perfectly on windowsill or just outside in summer in full sun. Flowering and producing seeds. I am not sure, but maybe G. margaretae would need to stay under the water the whole time, which I cannot provide at the moment. When I will have more of it again, I shall try to grow some that way.
-
White colour is nothing surprising here. It depends how it is genetically encoded. For some characteristic phenotype to occur, there must be some enzyme or a protein. Here to produce the colour of a flower. When two crossed species have such genetic information located differently and they are not fitting to produce the enzyme, without it, there won't be any colour = white flower. If the two colours were produced simultaneously than the hybrid could have a mix of them or even a totally different colour as a result of two enzymes working together on same protein. If the colour depends on a protein itself and is not as a product of an enzyme, than the lack of the protein would mean no colour. I could give examples without end. Genetics are fun. :) Watching how some features are passed down from the mother plants to the hybrids, one can suspect how they inherit. Which are dominant, which accumulate, etc. Of course on the end of that, it could always be an albino form from an accident. Effect of a spontaneous mutation. Rare, but possible. If our host was to learn that, he would need to make a back crossing with one of the maternal plants and see the results.
-
What a pity that the hybrid does not have one flower pink and one yellow. Beside that, magnificent plants and wonderful photos. If I could ask you one question. What light and how strong you use to lighten your plants? (I hope it is not the sun light... :/)
-
Sorry, because I won't be of help to you. I am just amazed by your photos. Simply fantastic. :) What a view!
-
It looks like it was mutated a bit. The flower shape somehow don't looks normal. It might not be just that it does not want to open, it might not be able to. It also might be just my imagination. :) You can always do it forcibly,.
-
Hi Maiden, your plant looks like it has more than one growing cone, which means, it could be divided. Sometimes it is easy enough to do it only with your fingers, other times, the clump is a little bit different ore compact and it is better to put something in between, not necessarily sharp. It is very much doable. Even if you somehow would be left with barely any traps in the process, also don't worry. If you have proper conditions for this species to grow, it will set new ones.
-
Now to see a Cephalotus in Australia, that makes a total different seance than Heliamphota. ;-) Heheh. Good luck with your trip.
-
I love this Drosera bonsai. Simply breathtaking. Thank you so much for sharing the photos. Mmmm... Heliamphoras, but you don't mean in the wild in Australia, do you?
-
So you are saying that in your conditions, different plants, from different people have the same flower colour? It is possible, that something in the soil could influence the flower colour. Have you got any idea what it might be?
-
What soil you are using? What conditions you keep your plants in? This sounds like a fungus infection to me. I experienced such thing several times in the past when I used to grow this species in peat mixes. Now I grow it in pure Sphagnum moss and it does well... at least for now.
-
I understood that you found the person, but he did not remember about the plants place of origin. If it was not selected in cultivation, but found in the wild. The population it was taken from does not have to be more rich in such individuals, because it could be the only one plants with this phenotype. Or maybe I understood wrongly that it came from the wild and was selected in cultivation?
-
Those "roots/shoots" have some small things coming out of them which could be devolved leafs. I am not sure if I see it correctly, because the photo is to small and not sharp enough to get a closer look on how they go out from those roots/shoots. There will be a difference how such degenerated leaf will come out from a shoot and how a root would come out. But I can't see it well enough. Truly this case is a real problem. :) Hmm... it could be solved in some time. When put in darkness horizontally, wile being roots, they should go down, since there is geotropism. Of course opposite for shoots, but it would take a day to see how they will behave.
-
Even if this future Hummer's Giant came from a certain place, it could just be that single plant. Or maybe I understood you totally wrong.
-
Hi, the reason why this plant is so small, is because it has not enough moisture in the soil. It prefers to grow in conditions where the water is on the soil level or above it. Best if there is sphagnum moss surrounding. It would probably change much if given different conditions. I had an occasion to see something similar. When there was a population growing on water edge was normal size, but I also found a population on peat, where it had only humid conditions. The difference in their size was clearly visible. I also had such situation once in my cultivation. I made a new pot for D. anglica and took some plants from Sphagnum moss and planted them on bare peat. The plants on peat shrunk a lot, although the same plants on Sphagnum grew typical way. Than I put Sphagnum in the new pot and those plants also changed. Their leafs elongated and now they look the same. It seems that the conditions have big influence on this species appearance.
-
Thank you Ron for your answer. I think that it is a real crossing. Considering how the mother plants looks like, the offspring has differences from both of them and some similarities. It was more likely, that the plant will inherit the size from U. aslpundii and the most visible change would be in the flower. Especially, that it was the mother plant.
-
Great job and beautiful photos. I was wondering why no one haven't jet made this crossing. I was guessing that it have been made, but those who did it, are waiting for the flowers to appear, to show the result. The hybrid looks nice. Could you write what temperatures and under what light you are growing it?
-
Sure there is. D. x hybrida is a hybrid between D. filiformis and D. intermedia wile D. filiformis 'California Sunset' is a hybrid between two different D. filiformis. I am not an expert, but the second one should be fertile in my opinion. They are totally different plants from their size and shape. Could you show a photo of the plant and a close up of its leaf? Of course if it goes for a polyploid, than the result can be various. The plant can change a lot or not change at all.
-
This species like to climb things. When it flowers for me, usually it climbs leafs of U. huboldtii or wires from my light. A stake would be a good idea, it will nicely curl around it. Of course the new flower stalks.
-
It looks to me like U. prehensilis.
-
Mhm... This is new to me, a greenhouse to provide colder temperatures instead of providing more heat. Okay, I learned something new. :) Still I think that you should have even a small spot where they could grow on their own outside with minimum of your care. It would be also a nice observation. Of course everyone has their plants for a little different reasons and goals. I definitely want to see this tub overgrown by them. :)
-
Correct me if I am wrong, but you live in a climate (zone) that is almost or exactly the same as in the wild of Cephalotus. If my eyes don't confuse me you keep them in a kind of greenhouse. Why is that? You could just make slightly elevated humid spot for them in your garden and simply let hem grow beautifully, watering them from time to time when needed. At least I grow species that are hardy for me all yea outside without any protection and they do grow beautifully. If only I had milder climate, I would grow a lot more species just outside. I can only imagine when your construction will be overgrown by Cephalotus. What a view it will be!
-
Hi, I grow D. filiformis in quite some quantity and I don't find it problematic at all. It grows well since many years in many different conditions. The only thing I can say for sure about typical form of D. filiformis is that it is sun loving species and that would be all. I have grown it in a little drying conditions, in a sandy mix or like now, in pure peat. Currently it is growing in one of the pots that is a part of my small cascade. It is constantly standing in the water so I could say that the soil does not matter (it is pure peat). From time to time I find seedlings around in other pots. I also selected fully hardy plants that cannot be killed by any frosts I can think of in my region (zone 7a). I also used to have D. filiformis var. tracyi and 'all red'. I lost the first one, because I left it outdoor for the winter. That year I also lost about 2/3 plants of the typical form. The red form I knew it is sensitive, so I kept inside. Because I was not at home for long months, when I came back, it was dead for unknown reasons. Still I had all the clones for several years and I never found them hard to grow or propagate. They all grew in the same pot in summer, in same conditions. The soil does not really matter, they always had pure peat, but I think that the amount of sun and air movement they had, did matter. If only I knew how hard it will be to get those plants back, I wouldn't ever let them die or experiment with all of them at once. Oh, when it is raining, which does a lot in my region, it has water from above, like all normal plants. :) It is totally fine with that. Here is my current pot, the smaller one is a hybrid: D. filiformis x intermedia, a weedy one, but a beautifully looking too. :)
-
I don't know if there is any specific method to adapt a plant to certain conditions, especially more extreme than it has in the wild. If the species does not have the potential to survive lower temperatures than it has in the wild, than you can only adapt it by seed propagation and slow selection of those ones, which survived the lowest temperatures. Than make them flower and repeat the cycle. It is easy with species which mature fast and propagate a lot and Cephalotus is not one of those. I just planted six plants outdoor this year and intend to leave them. They are growing in two different places and than I will see if any of them will survive and where it will that be. I am also Zone 7a. Good luck.