Gaz Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 After being stuck in dormant mode for 18 months I repotted this P. gypsicola in January into a mineral mix with lime and gypsum, it came to life in late Spring and now it's flowered for the first time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodrigo Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 Stupendous, is all I have to tell you about the flowering of your Ping. Best regards, Rodrigo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapperhead51 Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 great plant , obviously not a easy one to grow , persistence usually pays off , nice job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimscott Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 Nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoLongFairWell Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 Lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantas Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 Mine 2nd gypsicola is dead too, i can't grow it :'( but yours is nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moof Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 The plant is beautiful, looks very healthy:) nice flower! cheers Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted September 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 Thanks for your comments everybody. The persistent dormancy puzzled me and I was very close to throwing the plant away as it was just stuck in it's tight little winter rosette for a year and a half. I finally decided to give it another chance in different a substrata and the result was as you see. Well these little lessons from our plants are what make it all so fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hud357 Posted June 25, 2015 Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Thanks for your comments everybody. The persistent dormancy puzzled me and I was very close to throwing the plant away as it was just stuck in it's tight little winter rosette for a year and a half. I finally decided to give it another chance in different a substrata and the result was as you see. Well these little lessons from our plants are what make it all so fascinating. (Rather than start another thread) Can you give a little more detail as to what you have potted it into? Mine is still dormant (about a year) and I wouldn't mind waking it up. It has no roots so I can try anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted June 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 The plant is still doing OK and flowering again at the moment. I found some notes from back then suggesting my mix at the time was like this (with proportions in brackets) which was loosely based on World of Pinguicula's recommended mix (it looks like WoP hasn't been updated for a while):- Peat or Coir (2) Sand (2) Seed perlite (1) Fine vermiculite (1) Calcerous clay (cat litter/molar clay) (1.5) Pumice (1.5) Dolomitic lime (20ml in 300ml of compost) Gypsum (some, crushed) If I was doing it again now I would probably replace the perlite and vermiculite with more cat litter or pumice. I don't think Pings are that picky really so it might just have been the repotting which suddenly spurred mine on, rather than what it was potted in. Incidentally the piece of gypsum rock in the picture was just as a reminder that I'd added crushed gypsum to the mix. Good luck with yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hud357 Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Thanks for that. I will re-pot it and see what it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted August 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 After recently discussing P gypsicola getting stuck in Winter mode with #manders I thought it might be of interest to update this post with a current picture of my plant to show how it has developed in the 4 years since the original post. As you can see it is doing quite well, it has divided into 3 grow points which currently have 6 flowers between them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manders Posted August 27, 2017 Report Share Posted August 27, 2017 Looking good there Gary! My gypsum arrived so un-potted my new gypsicola and was surprised to see it had allready grown a few roots, im hoping thats a sign that its about to start growing! My last two never gre any roots to my knowledge. Anyway re-potted with some gypsum so last see what happens... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted August 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2017 Good luck Mark, it's a very nice plant once it starts growing properly.Sent from my Harrier from EE using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argo88 Posted August 27, 2017 Report Share Posted August 27, 2017 Wonderful plant, Gaz!!! You are a great grower! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxman Posted August 27, 2017 Report Share Posted August 27, 2017 19 hours ago, Gaz said: After recently discussing P gypsicola getting stuck in Winter mode with #manders I thought it might be of interest to update this post with a current picture of my plant to show how it has developed in the 4 years since the original post. As you can see it is doing quite well, it has divided into 3 grow points which currently have 6 flowers between them. My P. gypsicola has been stuck in Winter mode this year and is only just coming out of it. Nowhere near as good as yours, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted August 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 On 8/27/2017 at 1:18 PM, Argo88 said: Wonderful plant, Gaz!!! You are a great grower! thanks Argo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted August 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 On 8/27/2017 at 6:50 PM, linuxman said: My P. gypsicola has been stuck in Winter mode this year and is only just coming out of it. Nowhere near as good as yours, though. thanks Martin. It does seem to be a fairly regular problem with gypsicola for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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