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Post by vraev on May 15, 2007 18:10:21 GMT -5
great news buddy! You bettter take good pics this time, ;D .. I have hardly seen any pics from you from the time I have come to the OCPS !
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Post by insectivore on May 15, 2007 21:35:10 GMT -5
Well my Drosera Rotundifolias are finaly waking up! Outside! First year trying and I got succes! Lost a few tho but 2 ade it but ones not doing hot! Cya
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Post by vraev on May 15, 2007 22:33:31 GMT -5
fingers crossed for them dude! Hope they wake up well!
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Post by insectivore on May 16, 2007 7:41:16 GMT -5
Well one of them is doing good, with all this rain it must be une a bit of water right now but hey its not the first time... The second one I brought in my house and planted it because there was like no root system... Cya
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Post by mabudon on May 16, 2007 11:18:20 GMT -5
Vincent-Don't sweat the D.rotundifolia. I've been keeping mine alive (a single plant) for a few years, this season is the FIRST one where I would say the thing looks "great", the past few seasons it could be safely described as "passable" but nowit's a nice sized rosette with nickel-sized traps, lookin real good. It might actually flower and make actual seeds this year- it only flowered 2 summers ago and never made anything besides a few wisps of colourful debris in the pod As for pics, should get some in the next week or two, my flowers are going to open any minute and the pitchers are right behind 'em
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Post by insectivore on May 16, 2007 11:45:51 GMT -5
My Rotun's flower alot last year but they didn't like the winter... Cya
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Post by lloyd on May 16, 2007 11:56:48 GMT -5
Did anyone outside Toronto get the torrential downpour yesterday? I was driving and couldn't see where I was going. Also a little rain backed up in the basement. Then we went for a walk when it was "over" and got caught outside and our shoes were soaked.
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Post by Rick Hillier on May 16, 2007 12:18:57 GMT -5
We had one of the most wicked storms I can recall since we moved into our present home. The rain was coming in nearly horizontal sheets. One hit our front window and it was like someone had a guant bucket and threw it.
And to make it a bit on the scary side, the splash of the water on the road was swirling in circles, and the clouds above were trying to form a funnel. If that storm was better "organized", I'd bet it would have formed a tornado in our area.
Good thing my bog is just barely up (and I mean BARELY) - I doubt that the wind/rain even affected it at all.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by vraev on May 16, 2007 13:10:34 GMT -5
I was in hamilton with my friend in front of Gino's pizza. Lol! the moment we went inside...there was a big downpour...the wind and rain were insane. Then after like 2 min it was all over.
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Post by mabudon on May 16, 2007 15:44:37 GMT -5
Rick, it was just reported that an F1 tornado actually touched down near Stratford, so you were't thinking anything too crazy- glad everything's settled down a bit now tho We got the same outrageous rain here, tons of it. If only it were CP safe from my rooftop
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Post by insectivore on May 16, 2007 18:17:43 GMT -5
I heard about the tornado too hope everyone is ok! Cya
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Post by mabudon on May 26, 2007 9:28:11 GMT -5
Awesome!!
First fully opened pitcher was a seedling (3rd year now I think??) S.purpurea heterophylla, looking sweet.
S.Flava has been floweing the past 4 days, S.purpurea (was ruplicola, reverting now) flowers opened yesterday, now I'm waiting on a few S.flave holdouts and then the S.rubra should be opening up. S.minor seems to be the furthest behind of my species plants.n Stupid S. "Scarlet Belle" is still lookin like crap- if it weren't so easy to grow and kinda pretty I would have tossed that sucker a LONG time ago, slow-growing, lousy insect-catching thing that it is
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Post by insectivore on May 26, 2007 15:46:59 GMT -5
Lol! I like your sacret belles coments! Are you going to post pics or? Cya
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Post by Rick Hillier on May 28, 2007 8:10:10 GMT -5
All members of this board should send Mabudon a pot of U. subulata for his bog garden to make him feel better >>> Rick <<<
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Post by mabudon on May 28, 2007 9:11:08 GMT -5
Oh, it's alright, I actually killed a big clump of the stuff recently, useless stringy crap that it is I was gonna try U.prehensilus in the bog tho, it has never done ANYTHING indoors and might actually do something (even if all it does is die) out there so who knows The bog keeps lookin more and more sweet, and I KNOW I "owe" this forum a ton of pics, I'll see if I can get that together soon- I expect that today a LOT of pitchers will finally crack open, they're all nice and ridgy and inflated- when Steve came by the other day I was joking about how impatient they make me at this stage- I am always tempted to just "pop" them open like a pea-pod.. I have resisted the temptation thus far tho, as I doubt the plant would like it very much
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