Rob-Rah Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Can anyone post tips of growing D. ramentacea? Mine is in bright diffused light, in 1/2 sand/peat standing in the water tray with other plants. Temps 10C-32C (summer) and 2C-25C (winter). It has kinda stopped growing. Any advice? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-Rah Posted June 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 I thought ramentacea was one of the SA year-round growers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marcy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Hi Rob In my case of D.ramentacea cultivation… But, I am first time to cultivate D.ramentacea . So. There is not confidence to be certain whether my cultivation method is right way. I grow two type of D.ramentacea. A long stem type occurs Paarl mountain area.this type stem grows near 1m tall. They grow with 2m tall Erica bush in the wild. The other one is a short stem type occur Cape Town to Cape penisulra area. This type will grow less than 20cm tall. One of my friends has lived Cape Town for two years who visited habitat in sommer. I heard about the below topic from him. The wild D.ramentacea stop development of a sprout (growing point) while summer dry season in the wild. They leave the aerial stem. (semi-dormancy state?) They bear dehydration of the dry season and defend from veldfire. Most of Cape sundews like this life cycle in the wild without D.cidtiflora group. D.cistiflora,Dtrinelvia,D.pauciflora and D.alba fade aerial stem and require dormancy in summer. D.ramentacea are not high temperature and too hight humidity loving plant. IMO, D.ramentacea does not seem to necessary require dormancy in cultivation. My D.ramentacea contain compact greenhouse with chiller. Temperature keeps 25 degrees daytime 20 degrees nighttime in summer. My plant still keeps grow. Even,D.hilaris still keeps grow too. If those plants faded the aerial stem in summer , It will miniaturize next germination season. My temperature setting is 25 degrees daytime and 10 degrees nighttime in winter. D.ramentacea a root grows very deep under the soil. I use a 30cm deep pot. The wild habitat soil was moderately wet. And fine grain sand with mixed humus. I use mixed various grain size sand and peat. The below picture one use Sphagnum moss just soil surface. Water from above avoidind a plant. I don’t recommend stand pot on deep water tray. As far as I watched the wild habitat. They doesen’t prefer strong sunlight. A young plant growing in Erica bush where is demi sunlight But, cultivate it in the shade, a plant becomes feeble, and tentacles will not becomes red color. I think that moderate shading is better. Good luck! Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marcy Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 Hello Tamlin CPUK is my favorite forum. A lot of useful cultivation data are accumulated. Most of Cape Sundew has superior reproduce ability from root. You know... Because Their aerial stem often are destroyed by periodical natural Veld fire (Field fire) in the wild. I found several wild D.ramentacea reproduce from the root which were lost the aerial stem by Veld fire. I believe your plant will grow again . Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-Rah Posted July 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 Mine seems to have been a temporary glitch as it's started growing again. Yay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gusano75 Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 Hello Everybody, Has anybody had succes with leaf cuttings of D. ramentacea?. I have tried several times and nothing came out. Cheers, Rafa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Hi, i also had no success. Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gusano75 Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Hi again, Well after many new attempts, no way to produce new plants from leaf cuttings. To make things worse my D. ramentacea does not want to flower so not even new plants from seed . Another peculiarity, since I had the plant from Stefan Ippenberger in april'06, the plant has never entered dormancy, it just stop growing for a while during winter, though. This is how it looks right now the plant is almost 20cm high and still producing new leaf. Any idea to convince her into flowering ??? Cheers, Rafa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenofeden Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 even if it flowers you may not get many seeds, I didn't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted August 23, 2007 Report Share Posted August 23, 2007 Hi, if you hand-pollinate the flowers you get enough seeds (most likely more than you ever need). This worked fine for me. Saddly, the plant doesn't seem to flower each year. Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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