Little-Bacchus
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Now I got caught out a few weeks ago when one of my D. capensis started sending out circinate leaves and got me all excited at the thought of 1000s of seed coming my way. Now I have a fuzzy thing making its way up and I'm 90% sure it is a flower spike but would like a trained eye to confirm it, don't want to get all giddy again over nothing. Plants are still small not much more than 5" in height but then people have said on here they have had smaller send up a flower. Anyone willing to take a look and put my mind at rest. Much thanks if you can. If it is a flower on such a small plant is there anything I should look out for like will the seeds be less likely to germinate. Will flowering exhaust the plant.
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After the mutant faulse alarm and nearly losing my plants to a strande blackening of the leaves I have my first flower spike emerging. Even I can tell this is a flower spike, well I'm 90% sure it is I may post an image on the forum so keener eyes than mine can confirm it. Fuzzy little thing it is.
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From the album: CPs
My first flower coming coming up... So giddy lol -
Great work and you now have a new +watch on dA
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New Greenhouse is filling up nicely.
Little-Bacchus replied to Carnivine's topic in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion
How do you stop slugs and snails tucking into that giant hosta?!? -
I was thinking sun burn but thought Drosera was a little tougher. I guess lesson learned the hard way but if like other plants they should make it and just hope the worst is they have been put back a little in growth.
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What is going on here?!?
Little-Bacchus replied to Little-Bacchus's topic in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion
Spot on with this as it turns out the leaves unfurled and was circinate leaves on my D. capensis nice to have an odd plant but looks like I may now lose it as something odd making them all go black -
Well they are in a pots in a tray and the water level is never lower than half way up the pots. As for humidity it is in the kitchen so has the highest humidity in the house not sure on just how much but the air isn't dry from heating. Just moss bits I keep a keen eye out for aphids and the only ones I have seen have been in the traps lol. Well it looks like they will be missing out on the great sunshine we are having and will stay on the windowsill for a while I hope they bounce back from this...
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Little fuzzy but the best I could do at the time... As for watering and such they are kept wet with rain water and on a sunny south facing windowsill, with all the good weather we have been having on warm day they are outside and then taken back in before the sun goes down.
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Looking at my little D. capensis today I have seen many of the ends of the tentacles where the mucus comes from have turned black and some of the new leaves coming out look black!!!!! Are they done for, is it a fungus, black root rot!!! REALLY don't want to lose the first lot I have got to grow. Any help more than welcome.
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What is going on here?!?
Little-Bacchus replied to Little-Bacchus's topic in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion
That's what I thought lol I'd love to have my first flower but I think I will be waiting a little longer for it to happen. Good to know I hadn't seen leaves come up like this on D. capensis so I will be keeping an eye on this one to see how it goes. -
Great news and thing I have the same happen to me here. Finger crossed for us both.
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I will have to look into it more and when I have more plants I will be testing just what they can and can't cope with.
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What is going on here?!?
Little-Bacchus replied to Little-Bacchus's topic in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion
Was a shock to me to think a plant so small is already sending out flower spikes lol. I will leave this one and see if I can get some seed from it. I hope it doesn't exhaust the plant but we have some good sun now and it is catching a good amount of food so fingers crossed. Thanks for letting me known for the life of me I couldn't find any images of newly emerged flower spikes to compare it with. -
Hope someone can shed some light on this for me... As of yet all the new leaves that have come up on my plants have been simply folded in two, as if hinged with the hinged part moving out to form the part with tentacles. Now one of my plants (still small only ~4 inches high) is growing leaves that are coming up in spirals, is this a leaf or a more mature way of sending them out. Could it be something else like a flower spike (surely the plant is too small). Any ideas or help would be great.
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Well we have had some good sunny days and I have taken full advantage by running out first light with plants and bringing back in as the cooler nights draw in. The growth of the plants from this is amazing and each plant is sending up new leaf shoots every day. Along with this they are catching a huge amount of food. in a matter of hours most of the leaves have something stuck to them. One plat got hold of an ant... I didn't know how it would cope with this and it didn't do well. Within a few ours the leaf was looking a little odd and I removed the ant but a few more hours on and the area where the ant had been looked 'burnt' for want of a better word. By that night the leaf was bent in half the section forward of the burn was flopping down and the area where the ant had been was soft and brown. Without checking more I can only conjecture on what could have damaged the plant, the speed of damage makes me think it is something like the formic acid that is doing the damage. I have no idea if in time this would have allowed the ant to escape unharmed as it was already smothered and didn't make much of an attempt to move when removed from the leaf.
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I have a D. capensis in a bunch that I am growing and it is showing some strange trap formation. Some are coming out hourglass shape some only have as few as two tentacles stuck on the end of a leaf. Both types show a response to food. I'm thinking should I cull this one as I hope to breed some of the plants for seed or should I isolate it and let it self pollinate and see if its offspring show more interesting variation? I'm 90% sure that the traps forming in such a way is not down to physical damage but could be from something too small to see such as a virus or damage at seed level. Is this sort of deformity common?
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Just a little update on this for anyone that wants to know. I did re-pot deeper and they did indeed root from the leggy stems. Still small plants but strong and healthy with red stems down to the surface of the moss now. I will avoid this by giving more light next time but happy I didn't lose this batch.
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Well it has been a little while... All sign of the fungus gnat are gone thanks to some hand picking and a few brave mites. We have sun again and as such my little seedlings are now sending out new groth light anything. The harder task now is staying ontop of watering, they have moved onto rain water and looks like no probs there. Feeding is also something I will keep an eye on now as springtails just don't cut it for the size of the traps. I do hope in time to swap a few plants for something else but want to get them a little bigger before that happens. Oh and keep cats away from plants I was picking hairs off them for age after one got noto the windowsill.
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I have seen plants grow back from horrid looking remains but this looks like it is very dead. Sorry it had to happen just now when things are about to get growing.
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Nature Finds a Way
Little-Bacchus replied to Little-Bacchus's topic in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion
Looks like they are doing it all on their own. Have seen a few running around the sides of pots. -
Nature Finds a Way
Little-Bacchus replied to Little-Bacchus's topic in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion
This is what you are likely to see as it is the most common fungus gnat larva. As for the small clear ball things they could be the eggs of a gnat but fungus gnat eggs are very small (image below) -
Well I thought my little seedlings may have been done for as I spotted fungus gnat larva in the moss... I have been removing them by hand with a pin (a losing battle) then to my joy the air cavalry came to my rescue in the shape of predatory mites clinging to the belly of an adult gnat. Now have seen them in the moss so just hope are making a meal of the larva.
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Welshy's Greenhouse
Little-Bacchus replied to North West Neps's topic in Greenhouses - Cultivation & Equipment
I envy you the fun this is going to be and can't wait to see it dripping with plants.
