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Post by prmills on Apr 23, 2010 14:18:36 GMT -5
That is well travelled! Any tips on helping it live or flower?
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Post by mabudon on Apr 23, 2010 14:35:14 GMT -5
I will give you the benefit of the doubt here and just assume you never read any of my rants about the damn thing As for keepin it alive, I have had it on the same windowsill since I got it, I water it whenever and it is generally very easy to grow... In all the years I have had it, ONE time it sent out a wiggly flower spike that got maybe 2 feet long and then aborted. The silly joke of it all is that EVERYONE I have given it to has reported (and furnished pictures of) fairly frequent flowering. Tho I have supplied the plant to countless people who have had wonderful success with it, I have never beheld a flower with my own eyes dammit
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Post by prmills on Apr 23, 2010 15:22:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I never read anything about it. I wasn't sure I wanted to get into them yet either. I'll have to do a search here for it But one flower stalk eh? I remember seeing Tael's Ultrics, don't know if it was this one or not, but they always seemed to have flowers on them. All I'm doing is putting it in my mini-greenhouse in normal CP soil and keeping it wet. We'll see how it goes
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Post by mabudon on Apr 23, 2010 15:39:07 GMT -5
According to Tommy, and I can sort of verify it based on the one flower spike, water-level fluctuation is probably a big factor- mine had both a cold-ish couple of months simultaneous with a reduced watering schedule before it made the doomed spike. Tael didn't have U. prehensilus that I remember- unlike some of the "ever flowering" ones, U. prehensilus flowers more seasonally- it makes a long spike that will seek to wrap around objects in the vicinity, which I am pretty sure is where the name comes from. It makes multiple nice yellow flowers spaced fairly far apart along the spike, unlike utrics like U. sandersonii which produces one flower per spike on much shorter growths Whatever, keeping it a tad wet will help I'm sure
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Post by prmills on Apr 24, 2010 20:37:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the tips, I'll see what I can do
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