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Post by carnivoure12 on May 13, 2009 19:07:48 GMT -5
Hi everyone, I hear that the utric mentioned in the title is hard to bloom, what do you guys do for yours? are the hard to bloom? How do you do it?
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Post by tom on May 13, 2009 19:37:03 GMT -5
By what i've heard and see: grow it in pot root bound and temperature fluctuation/photoperiod helps a lot
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Post by lloyd on May 13, 2009 20:14:41 GMT -5
Not too hard at all.
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Post by Rick Hillier on May 14, 2009 9:07:58 GMT -5
A couple of years ago, I threw some U. longifolia into the pot in which I had one of my N. rafflesianas growing. The media was pure, live LFS. I basically ignored it, and never changed the photo period. All of my neps are under 400W metal halides for about 13 hours per day.
I happened to look that way last week and was greeted by two spikes each with four flowers on them. Nice surprise indeed.
I honestly don't know what triggers blooming in this species.
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Post by mabudon on May 14, 2009 9:27:38 GMT -5
Yeah easy to grow but I have no clue what exactly the triggers for it are either, tho I have flowered it ONCE on my windowsill years ago- it flowered in february-march and I had been watering it less, it was pot-bound and it was chilly at the time.
Nice work Rick!
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Post by lloyd on May 14, 2009 11:06:51 GMT -5
Both times for me the spike came up in December if that means anything.
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