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Post by dvg on Feb 21, 2009 18:31:46 GMT -5
I was having a look at the P. medusina I recently purchased from HB. I had noticed something sticking out off the ends of the leaves, over the last while, but hadn't taken the time to zoom in and have a closer look. Well, I just had a closer look and the things forming on the ends of some of the leaf tips are plantlets, complete with small rootlets. So I'm betting these can be snipped off and planted up. Haven't quite seen anything like this before from a ping. P. primuliflora has plantlets form on the leaves, but not quite like medusina's. Because medusina's leaves grow upright, the plantlets look like the seed head at the end of a green onion leaf. Always something new.
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Post by tael on Feb 21, 2009 20:43:42 GMT -5
Nice, dvg! That sounds peculiar! Sounds like they multiply pretty easily, soon you'll have an army of them!
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Post by dvg on Feb 21, 2009 22:11:14 GMT -5
Yes it is peculiar, but peculiar in a good way. Makes me wonder though, if I was to take leaf pullings, if they would still make plantlets on the white tips of the leaves, the part that attaches to the mother plant. If they do, and I suspect they do, I would have pings coming out of both ends.
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Post by sdeering on Feb 22, 2009 0:25:29 GMT -5
Hey we neeeed picks, and pot one up for me tooooo. Sounds like a cool plant kind of like a P.primuliflora trait. Stephen
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Post by dvg on Feb 22, 2009 1:02:06 GMT -5
Hey Stephen, long time no see. Good to see you back again posting, bud. Yeah, it is definitely a different type of ping. I'll try and get some pics of the plantlets, although they really are not all that spectacular to look at, more time permitting.
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Post by dvg on Feb 23, 2009 13:17:13 GMT -5
Ok guys, I'll see if I can get a pic up later in the day.
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Post by dvg on Feb 23, 2009 20:41:25 GMT -5
Here is a pic of some P. medusina potted up and still adjusting to my conditions. And this is a plantlet growing on the end of a leaf tip.
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Post by lloyd on Feb 23, 2009 21:11:22 GMT -5
Ok, now I need to buy a house to get more plants.
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Post by tael on Feb 23, 2009 21:22:52 GMT -5
Wow, that's so interesting! So I guess in nature do those just fall off after a while, or do the leaves touch to the ground as they get older and then the old leaf dies and makes a new plant...?
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Post by dvg on Feb 24, 2009 1:05:34 GMT -5
Tael I think you may be right about the leaf touching down to the ground and the plantlet rooting and taking off from there. In the top picture there is a plantlet laying on top of the sand, still attached to the leaf tip. Here is a closer picture of it.
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Post by tael on Feb 24, 2009 1:35:11 GMT -5
Oh neat! The baby ones are soo cute. So I wonder if this guy flowers often then? Since this seems like a pretty good method of reproducing for him.
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Post by dvg on Feb 24, 2009 1:49:03 GMT -5
I don't know how often P. medusina flowers, it's still very new to me. But yes, these plantlets are a good way to propagate the plant, as well as leaf pullings too, I guess. And I like the looks of the baby ones too...cute little guys!
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Post by tael on Feb 24, 2009 3:59:13 GMT -5
Hehe, they sure are cute! What an interesting plant. It kind of reminds me of prolifera with the flower stalk thing!
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Post by mabudon on Feb 24, 2009 12:16:50 GMT -5
Nifty, nice shots DVG, and the plant looks about as happy as the rest of your collection, nice work!
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Post by dvg on Feb 24, 2009 19:11:04 GMT -5
Thanks Mabs. It's always fun when our plants can unexpectedly surprise us with their innate abilities. Seems to be a lot of that happening lately.
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