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Post by Syble on Aug 20, 2007 6:49:31 GMT -5
looks great rick, mine has just sat there since I got it and looks much like sawchuks... I grew a bit concerned about the lack of progress particularlly when my other one was gorwing so well and discovered no roots :S so it's in a rooting area hopefully it will grow for me! Thanks Sib
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Post by lloyd on Aug 20, 2007 7:05:35 GMT -5
You have to give these things time. It can take months for a plant to establish but once they do they're on autopilot for years. I don't know when I last repotted mine.
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Post by Sawchuk on Aug 20, 2007 23:01:53 GMT -5
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Post by vraev on Aug 21, 2007 17:01:43 GMT -5
thats good dude. The hard part I noticed about a ceph is to "NOTICE" new growth when u get the plant. Once that u can see, u basically will know that the plant is OK and is now ready to grow.
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Post by Sawchuk on Aug 21, 2007 18:29:28 GMT -5
there are 3 traps and two new leaves ready to grow just coming up, how ya like them apples heh sib!! you better hold on to your shorts rick!! im pretty estatick since this was the plant that started this hobby
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Post by vraev on Aug 21, 2007 19:09:55 GMT -5
let me warn u though dude.... this thing is freakin finicky. I just had a battle of my life to try carefully adding liquid into the pitchers (I have to steal a pipette from my lab sometime). One of the pitchers has its lid lower than the other and i can't see liquid as I could in the other...so for nearly 10 -20 min...I was trying hard to carefully spray some water in there using a pointed tip as a guide. Damn! its annoying and hard. sheesh! I think I got some in. I don't want those beautiful pitchers on mine to go before I get more of those.
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Post by lloyd on Aug 21, 2007 19:23:37 GMT -5
I just pour the water all over mine and some probably gets in the pitchers. I do have little bulb like pipettes but usually I can't be bothered.
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Post by vraev on Aug 21, 2007 19:31:45 GMT -5
ooh the pipettes I am talking about are glass ones which are pretty fine and they have a tip that is like 1-2 mm in diameter and the reservoir about 1cm in diameter. It can hold 1 ml of liquid. So obviously its for small scale (large scale in biochem) measurements.
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Post by lloyd on Aug 21, 2007 21:06:45 GMT -5
I use the plastic ones with a squishy bulb, really convenient and you can get them for a few cents. They're convenient for watering really delicate seedlings.
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Post by vraev on Aug 21, 2007 21:52:25 GMT -5
I think I know what u mean....however, lol! I just think the glass ones are cool. GIves me a feel of a whole mad scientist with plants that EAT. lol!
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Post by Sawchuk on Aug 21, 2007 22:16:14 GMT -5
wacky vreav your outta this world dude, sounds like overboard to me, they must get water in them in the nature without the help on pointy glass n plastic pipettes so i dont see y a simple misting wouldent cut it???or precisely aimed mist yaknow? i guess ill have to wait and findout for myself
umm about the watering i hear ussually the reason these plants are lost is because of root rot?? what iv been doin is tray water for 20 mintues i htink once a week when appears slightly drier combined with high humidity and daily mistings, all sounds good or what??
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Post by vraev on Aug 21, 2007 22:41:44 GMT -5
I am actually not going to do tray thing anymore. I just water until I see water starting to seep out of the pot and then I stop. I wait till 3 days. In the meanwhile the media stays well and damp as the moss is a clear indicator. i touch the media occasionally and its always wet. I guess i also have mine in the open with low humidity...so I am trying to ensure no rot. But...u never know. HOpefully it doesn't happen.
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Post by Flytrap on Aug 21, 2007 23:13:15 GMT -5
I grow mine in the usual cp mix I concoct ... peat, sand, charcoal and bits of sphag. Proportion of each is approx 50:25:10:15
I just dump a cup of tap water over top of the beast. But the soil gets to almost moist-dry before it gets the drink. I know they hate water on it's crown, but when you 've got to water all the rest of teh beasts... you start to lose it ;-)
I should also say that they're approx. 15' away from a small computer muffin fan that circulates the greenhouse.
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Post by mabudon on Aug 27, 2007 12:51:25 GMT -5
I finally got up the nerve to replant my Ceph I also removed one of the growing points seeing if I could make another, as my leaf cutings don't seem to be doing too much. Please keep your fingers crossed on this one, and I should be able to post pics of the set of 'em tomorrow or teh next day (might keep your fingers crossed on that front, too, please)
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Post by briar on Aug 27, 2007 18:55:19 GMT -5
Hello all, I'm in the states and have been lurking for about a year or so... Carl and I have communicated quite a bit over the months... very nice group you have here like so many here, Cephs and Heli's are my pride and joy.. so here are few pics of my cephs.. (those who visit TF will prob recognize some of these images) thanks for looking, I am quite proud of them Cheers' Butch clump of typicals a recovering hummer's giant the same hummer 3-4 months ago, with heavy shipping damage couple more typical pics a typical in flower
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