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Heather: there's always a first time:-) Hmmm....hard to say exactly how many years...if you mean that particular plant in the first picture then it might be about 3 or 4 years without dormancy.
Jimfoxy: yes, I actually suspect that the plant might not be pure leucophylla. Especially the top of the pitcher,...might be something close to Sarracenia leucophylla x (purpurea ssp. purpurea x leucophylla),,,,,,but it is hard to say exactly just by looking at it.
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LJ: as far as my experience with sarrs this is the only species (psittacina) that doesnt require dormancy in order to thrive. i grow other sarracenias outside in the sun and for winter I give them bright cold dormancy and they are doing really well.
x Mitcheliana
purpurea ssp. venosa
leucophylla
Psittacina unlike other sarrs can be for example successfully grown inside terrarium in 80% humidity no air motion with no problems. I have done some experiments and found out that the one being grown outside in 30% humidity and much cooler conditions is doing great too. The only thing about psittacina is when I dont give it dormancy it starts flowering in the fall not in the spring (which makes it hard to pollinate it since other sarrs are sleeping at that time).
I am not saying giving psittacina dormancy period is not good.....just saying not giving her one is not bad and that she grows equally well:-)
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FTH: yours has more pitchers because it is not one plant in the pot. S. psittacina forms clusters of plants over time. So in your pot there might be easily 10 or more plants. They dont look like adult plants to me as well. So maybe that is why they dont flower yet. I had cluster like that and repotted the plants individually (that was maybe 3 months ago) and now some of them are flowering.
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FTH: looks great! Wait when it starts flowering then it is a real beauty. Mine started flowering in an unusual time because I dont give it dormancy at all (dont think she needs one):
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Hello Amar!
Thanx for the great news!
I have read the same but just wante to make sure so I dont miss pollination. So now i know the girls can do it themselves and will be awaiting seeds. Thanx one more time !
Good luck growing!;-)
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Hello CPers!
I have a question about my drosera montana. This year they started to flower for the first time and I would like to get some seeds. Is this species self-fertile or do i need another drosera for successful pollination? These two in the pictures are from the same mother.
Also, what is the germinability? Anyone has practical experience? Thanx. Here's picture:
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Hi Iggy!
Wonderful plants you have! WOW I love the ascendens! I have one on my own but it doesnt look so good. May I ask you under what conditions you are growing this species?
Thanx and good luck with growing these beauties!
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Hi Dieter!
Beautiful plant you have there. My nitidula subsp. allantostigma is producing gemmae now. I learnt on czech forum that the plant I posted pictures of is actually D. nitidula ssp. omissa x pulchella :-) Or a "street mix" what I call these:-) Still- a beautiful plant.
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hello dieter
thanx for the pictures . None of the plants depicted look like the one I have. Yes this one has been flowering since early spring and doesnt seem to stop any time soon. Grows like she s on steroids:-)
Unfortunately I dont have any new sharp image of the flower because I am gone from home for some time but maybe next month i will have some.
Thanx for your help!
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Hi! :-)
I got this pygmy some time ago marked as D. closterostigma. Doesnt seem to look much like it. I dont know what species this is could anyone help? Here are some pictures:
the rosette is 35mm across
flower detail (sorry a bit blurry)
The drosera made a new plantlet on the top of the flower stalk:
A priori thanx for any advice on this:-)
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Hi everybody!
My d. ascendens is growing smaller and smaller leaves covered with red stains:
I dont think it is dying but it is certainly not thriving:-( I grow it in small aquarium. Lots of water, 8W T5 15 hours a day 3" distance. Read that she is heat sensitive so I keep the temperature 19-26C.
Here's a pic of the aquarium:
Also, my rubrifolia is not doing so well:
They were repotted some 2 months ago. My d.montana as well.....but she is thriving under the same conditions. I thought they are species with similar needs. Montana looks like this:
Could anyone tell me how should I change the conditions so all of the droseras are happy?
Thanx:-)
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just to put things in order: the Nep mentioned is ampullaria x rafflesiana (x Hookeriana) not amp x rajah.....
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adams: i use regular ExoTerra ultrasonic fogger. I had the same problem as you do now....the fog did not come out of the container (or only a very little). Since I needed to cover the whole area even distant corners of terrarium I decided to use the fogger tohether with 9V PC fan placed right oved the water surface. The time switch turns them on simultanneously so the fog is distributed all everywhere equally. It works perfectly and the moss is growimg nicely (the other plants as well:-)))
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So i had some free time this weekend and spent it by making some progress woth building my terrarium. I installed some fans and fogger together with the tank and tubing and some new plants of course. Originally I planned on growing there neps only but i decided to put some more species in there to increase the diversity (and also from some experimental reason). So currently I am growing there:
N. vetricosa x alata
N. sanguinea
N. ampullaria x rajah
S. psittacina
P. moctezumae
P. "Sethos"
H. minor
D. prolifera
D. schizandra
D. adelae plus some ferns and phallaenopsis..................will add some tillandsiae later:-)
Temperature: 20-28C
Humidity: 80-100%
Some pics:
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Hello nepenthes!
I would love to see your neps and heli terrarium! But to see the pics it redirects us to a log-in page. Unfortunately i dont have an account with this polish forum (and i am not planning on doing so). Could you please post the pics here (or somewhere else and give us an operative link)?
I am building something similar these days and i am dying for some inspiration!;-)
Good luck with growing!:-)
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Hello everybody!
I `d like to share some pics of my recently received pygmies. After a little shock caused by "very careful" post office employees I think they came back to their senses and are growing well now:-)
Hope u enjoy these lil ones;-)
Drosera sewelliae
Drosera scorpioides
Drosera palacea ssp. palacea
Drosera nitidula ssp. nitidula (having a hard time now)
Drosera nitidula ssp. allantostigma
Now this is a tiny pygmie! Drosera microscapa
My favourite: Drosera manii
Drosera callistos
Drosera pulchella
Drosera closteriostigma even started flowering:-)
and a big one aliciae:-)
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Mark: No I am not going to repot them anytime soon. They like small pots and I repotted them a year ago so next time it will be at least 3 years from now. As about pot material ...I use plastic pots. More optimal would be the use of ceramic pots (as you mentioned) from several reasons. For example cacti like aerated soil medium. Ceramic pots are perfect for this reason because they contain a lot of microscopic pores letting the ait onto the substrate. Another good reason for ceramic pots is that this material has much higher thermal conductivity and lower thermal capacity than plastics so it gets cooler/hotter much faster than plastics. Most cacti in their natural environment encounter really rapid change of desert soil temperature every 24hour period (sometimes 40degC). So why do I use plastic pots? Because they last longer and they are cheaper:-) But more importantly my cacti dont mind.
Tuuagso: your astrophytums are really beautiful I wish I had so many species of this genus:-)
Recently I came back from San Lucas Mexico and will post some cool pics of HUGE cacti (Saguaro e.g.)
Good Luck!!!
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Congrats!
They really look way beyond beautiful!!! Too bad i cant see them "live" I am jealous!
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What a beautiful sunny Sunday we had today! Didnt have much to do so I took some pics of my plants. Hope you like it:-)
D. adelae leaf
D. adelae (shortly after recovering from repotting)
D. capensis cought herself a big fat black tasty fly (yummy.... bon appetite!)
D. aliciae will bloom
D. aliciae rosette
My favourite mexicana P. moctezumae
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Thank you all very much!
From all I read maybe I should just label her as a new species: Sarracenia x Tchernobyl!
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Hi Dave! Greetings to Australia! (Always wanted to go:-))
Thanx for your information I think you (or Mr.Lowrie) might be right about this but I will definitelly see when the blooming is over (there are 3 more buds to go). The fact is that the flower stalk is almost 3 times as big as the plant itself so I believe there is huge nutrition drainage upwards going on. Too bad the leaves are so undeveloped that I cannot even feed the plant for support.
Hopefully I will not loose this show-off ;-)
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HI! :-)
Today I went to the florist and saw this sarracenia hybrid in the store. It cost 5 euros so I couldnt resist...
As usual the seller was not able to tell me what species this is therefore I seek help here with you professionals:-)
I enclose some pictures:
Already on the hunt:-)
Thanx for help!:-)
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Hi Mark!
Like most cacti this one is very slow grower as well. I got it as a small cactus (the bottom part in the picture) and in 20 years it only grew about 10cm.
Here are the pics:
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I have had this little fellow for over 20 years now and there has not been a year without him performing. This summer it is the fifth time it put up beautiful flower :-)
Here`s a pic:
Soon astrophytum capricorne will bloom i will post pic as well:-)
Sarracenia psitticina
in Sarracenia
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Hether: that would be great i'd love to compare my results with someone else's!
Jimscott: the plant looks OK to me but I wouldnt expose her to long period of cold weather. I mean I dont know whether that one has been through one night of frost or more......but psittacina is not purpurea...so i am not sure if she can survive cold winter outside. (At least mine didnt cope well. The young leaves started to turn brown and dry and eventually the whole plant joined the crowd of invisible in a matter of week). But our winters can be really harsh so maybe thats why.