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Post by dvg on Oct 21, 2011 14:25:50 GMT -5
Pinguicula esseriana 'Giant' has been in my collection since June of 2008. It is most likely the largest of the P. esseriana species varieties, with these rosettes shown above measuring just over an inch in diameter. These mexi-pings are colorful and possess a uniformly compact growth structure, making them one of the prettier Mexican butterwort species available commercially. dvg
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Post by shoggoths on Oct 21, 2011 14:42:35 GMT -5
Wow, very nice pings and quality pics.
All the differents colors are well captured.
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Post by nwflytrap on Oct 21, 2011 15:01:46 GMT -5
Those pings look almost too good to be real! Very nice colouring on them as well. Great pics.
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Post by 31drew31 on Oct 21, 2011 15:48:07 GMT -5
They look great dvg! Very nice photos too.
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Post by dvg on Oct 22, 2011 12:49:29 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind comments guys, though i will admit to fussing with the pics a bit to try and capture the color and glistening glands on these plants. Originally, i had taken shots of this pot in the basement, where i grow these, but under the T5 lights, the color looked a bit bleached out. Outside, is where i get the best color rendering, but it did freeze the night before and the sun wasn't very high in the sky when i began shooting. Deciding it best to try and shoot outside anyway, as it was sunny, i tried several times early in the morning, but with the sun shining between tree branches and partially obscured by some high cloud at times, it took until almost noon our time, until the sun was high enough and with the proper intensity to make the colors pop and the glands glisten, although if the sun is too intense, it can just as easily white out the shinier parts of a plant as well. And with the sun quite low at this time of year, i had to tilt the pot so that the back side of the plants wouldn't be mostly shaded. Anyways, glad to hear you liked them. dvg
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Post by insectivore on Oct 23, 2011 7:24:51 GMT -5
Nice DVG as always! My esseriana is 1/8th the size XD
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Post by Devon on Oct 23, 2011 13:30:07 GMT -5
I second what everyone else said.
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Post by dvg on Nov 10, 2011 16:39:04 GMT -5
Same plants, but less than a month later, these two have responded well to watering and a couple of tropical springtail feedings, by showing visibly more growth. dvg
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Post by dvg on Dec 13, 2011 15:05:32 GMT -5
A couple of pics from today... From the side these kinda resemble the shape of a pine cone... dvg
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Post by markym4rk on Dec 13, 2011 19:24:13 GMT -5
nice plants!
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Post by dvg on Jan 27, 2012 17:14:15 GMT -5
Thanks Mark. Since the last update, these two rosettes have nuzzled closer to one another. From the side, these ping's leaves are neatly stacked, layer upon layer. These two have really taken off, after being fed fairly regularly, over the last three months. dvg
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Post by markym4rk on Jan 27, 2012 18:38:16 GMT -5
trade ya for one
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Post by dvg on Mar 4, 2012 5:10:47 GMT -5
Back on October 1, 2011, i took some leaf pullings and then on November 1, i placed the strikes from those pullings in this 4" pot. Here are the resultant plants along with an odd looking green mass of baby pinglets, in the centre, from one of the strikes. dvg
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Post by Apoplast on Mar 4, 2012 10:35:05 GMT -5
Hi Doug - You are incredibly fast at propagating pings! Wow. I'm going to have to try to feed mine more, and hope that's the difference your success and my slow growth (though I fear it might have a lot to do with the difference in our horticultural talents too).
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Post by dvg on Jul 14, 2012 13:23:07 GMT -5
An update on these Pings taken as leaf pulls last October, doing their best succulent-in-a-pot imitation. dvg
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