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Post by vraev on Feb 1, 2009 17:05:25 GMT -5
Hey guys,
Here are my 1 year old root and leaf cutting. I decided to finally repot it and give them more room to grow. I flipped the entire pot upside down ....the pitchers emptied...but the plant came out cleanly. media is mostly peat moss + tons of perlite with a handful of orchid bark.
The plants had great root systems as you can see. These are truly started from root and leaf cuttings. The bigger one is the root cutting. Note: order of plants in teh second pic is respective of the ones on the left after potting.
The plants were before in a 4 inch square pot that is like 3 inches tall. The roots were coming out of the drainage holes. The roots are like 6-7 inches long.
Now my only hope is that the plants don't experience a die back. If they do...its a lesson learnt on how "NOT" to repot a ceph. lol! I am confident they will survive htough. the root systems are very very tough as you can see.
Good day,
V
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Post by lenynero on Feb 1, 2009 18:42:18 GMT -5
Very nice ;D Guess who wants a leaf pulling.... Leny
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Post by Rick Hillier on Feb 1, 2009 19:06:34 GMT -5
I had lost two of my "typicals" due to the sand-from-hell that I had them in... the third one seemed to be hanging on, but barely, so I removed it, washed the roots (which didn't look very good) and transplanted it to peat/perlite and it has responded with quite a bit of new growth, so in my case, the transplant was successful.
My 'giant' one is strange, though... all of the new growth is pink and white with absolutely no green in it at all. The pitchers form normally though. The plant was previously in that peat/sand mix, but was moved to pure LFS in which it did seem to recover. I'm a bit concerned by the lack of green it though.
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Post by vraev on Feb 1, 2009 19:41:37 GMT -5
yeah! I agree that the peat + perlite media is tremendously successful with cephs and VFTs. Its the best mix of aeration + water retention for acid loving CPs. Personally LFS is a recipe for disaster for me in the case of cephs so I totally avoid it. lol David. Well...I didn't take any leaf pullings from these 2. However, my big ceph might be getting a repot sometime soon as well. So that one, I'll surely take some.
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Post by lloyd on Feb 1, 2009 20:32:06 GMT -5
I had my cephs in LFS with the only problem being I had to keep cutting the LFS as it covered the cephs.
I find cephs like to be repotted when they are languishing and respond with new growth.
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Post by hal on Feb 1, 2009 20:39:18 GMT -5
Those things look like plastic. I swear they're not real.
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Post by vraev on Feb 1, 2009 23:48:20 GMT -5
well.... figuratively speaking.... ceph pitchers can last for a long while...I had pitchers stay on the plant for well over 8 months or so. So yeah...u can compare them in that way to plastic.
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Post by dvg on Feb 4, 2009 13:11:41 GMT -5
Nice pics of your nice plants, as always, V. Nice effort on the propagation of these guys, as well.
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Post by Rymah on Feb 4, 2009 14:20:46 GMT -5
those are amazing plants! and pictures, i liek how you did the transition thiing. i cant wait till spring to get one! its on the top of my wanted list
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Post by vraev on Feb 4, 2009 16:48:41 GMT -5
thanks guys.
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Post by Devon on Feb 17, 2009 18:37:45 GMT -5
awsome plants, they look healthy.
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