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Post by Apoplast on Apr 24, 2012 21:55:53 GMT -5
Thanks Shogg! You really should give it a go. There are some species that are pretty forgiving of less than ideal conditions - but they can be pretty nice. PM me this summer and we can talk tubers.
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Post by Apoplast on Nov 1, 2012 20:57:44 GMT -5
Good day all - A couple of my tuberous species have seen fit to reward me with some flowers, so I thought I would share them with you. If any of you remember the D. e. squamosa I showed pictures from last year, this is it blooming. They put up their inflorescence before their leaves. So right now the entire aboveground component of the plant is the stalk with a few flowers. This next one is not quite in full bloom yet. It's one of my D. tubaestylis clones. Each rosette only produces one flower, so I thought I'd show the flower buds, just in case I miss the actual show. I know tuberous dews do not possess the showiest flowers amongst the carnivorous plants, but I always feel a sense of pride when the are happy. So much of the year growing these species is staring at pots of dry sand, so when they decide to put on a show of any sort I am transfixed. Thanks for looking!
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Post by 31drew31 on Nov 1, 2012 21:22:39 GMT -5
Good work Apolast! I have yet to try my hand at the tuberous species but eventually will buy some tubers and give it a shot.
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Post by dvg on Nov 2, 2012 15:45:20 GMT -5
Very nice work with these species Apoplast.
With so many sundews looking so much alike, i find that some of the tuberous speices really stand apart in terms of both beauty and uniqueness.
Thanks for sharing the update on these.
dvg
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Post by Apoplast on Nov 3, 2012 12:04:53 GMT -5
Thanks guys!
Drew - some great starter species are D. hookeri, D. auriculata, and D. menziesii (which has beautiful flowers) for the upright growing species, and D. aberrans for rosette species. They are productive and forgiving.
DVG - I can see how you might feel like that about dews. I kind of feel that way about Nepenthes. I might get one someday, but then I'll probably feel like I have that box checked. The tuberous dew species really do diverge from the others though. Although, I feel like some of the South African winter growers do too, but those ones seem to attract way less attention.
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Post by 31drew31 on Nov 3, 2012 14:19:14 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestions Apoplast, I will keep my eyes open for those species.
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Post by lloyd on Nov 3, 2012 18:36:34 GMT -5
I found the easier tuberous dews to be rather easy. I grew them from seed. I even cheat by just letting them sit in a pot that is always dampish. They just sort of cycle on their own. I know it's a lazy way of growing them but it sort of works.
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Post by Apoplast on Nov 4, 2012 19:30:59 GMT -5
Hi Drew - No problem. Seeds of the stalked species I named are frequently available from the ICPS seedbank. Not only are these species prolific tuber producers they often produce lots of seed to boot. And as Lloyd pointed out they grow pretty easy from seed. If you decide to dive in please feel to consider me a resource if you have questions (that goes for anyone out there).
Hi Lloyd - Yes, the species I named are "easy" because you can grow them in damp to wet conditions through dormancy. If you have those species it's not lazy to let them stay wet. Remember there is a fine line between lazy and efficient. Sounds to me like you are on the the positive side of the line for this one.
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Post by Apoplast on Nov 26, 2012 22:29:24 GMT -5
Good day all - It slows down around here in the winter, so I thought I'd take some pictures of my plants this evening to post. Sure they are the same ones as before, but this is my high season, the rare time when all of my pots don't just look like sand. First up, is D. tubaestylis. They are small but cute. The flowers they had were striking and larger than the rosettes! Sorry I forgot to take a shot of that. I have included a penny for scale on all of the shots to give an idea of the size differences between the species. Similar in size is D. aberrans. This a great species to start with and perhaps the easiest rosette tuberous dew for beginners. That said, I messed up with this one this year so you are looking at my last remaining rosette. Oh well, it's known for its clonal nature, so I should have more at the end of the season. Here is a shot of my D. lowriei, which I have started to think of as old reliable. It comes up and blooms for me every year, never failing. The only thing it has not done for me is divide. I'm still holding out hope though. Despite looking like death all of last year, this season my D. zonaria has popped up happily as if nothing was ever wrong. I'm still trying to figure out the secrets of these little guys. But that's half the fun! And here is a shot of D. e. magna. The penny gives you and idea of why it is called "magna". I really like this species. It is always covered in dew, rolls out its leaves like carpets welcoming me to the growing season. And it looks like it is spreading the fun. And I have saved everyone's favorite for last, D. e. squamosa. It too has started to spread, you can see the emerging bud to right of the mature rosette. Well that's all tuberous species I have to show off for the moment. I hope it was interesting. Thanks for looking!
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Post by lloyd on Nov 26, 2012 23:04:52 GMT -5
Very nice plants.
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Post by 31drew31 on Nov 27, 2012 0:03:18 GMT -5
Nice dews Apoplast!The second to last one is my favorite.
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Post by dvg on Nov 27, 2012 15:12:51 GMT -5
Very nicely grown plants there Apo!
Great job!
dvg
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Post by shoggoths on Nov 27, 2012 20:36:23 GMT -5
Wow, these are really hot dews there Apoplast Especially zonaria for me. Really nice rosette. I'll put some on my to do list
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Post by Apoplast on Nov 28, 2012 15:28:10 GMT -5
Thanks Lloyd, Drew, Doug, and Martin! Drew, I really like the surface covering properties of D. e. magna too (the second to last picture). Shogg, yes the D. zonaria has an amazingly intricate pattern. I just wish it would produce an offset. Maybe next year. Thanks again for checking out the pictures everyone.
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Post by Apoplast on Jun 3, 2013 20:58:03 GMT -5
Hi all - Well the tuberous sundew growing season is officially over now that the last of my newly arrived tubers are starting to decline. So, I thought I'd show off some shots of my newly arrived critters, for those of you who need one last fix for the summer. And who knows, if I don't get them adjusted correctly then this might be the only time I get to show them off. Excuse the pictures - I'm not a good photographer. Let's start off with something spectacular. This is D. macrophylla, and it's a beauty! I've tried this species one before but it was very different, and blinked out over a few seasons. But Byblisera suggested I try it again, and I am so happy I did. I hope you can see why. The next one is D. erythrorhyzia erythrorhyzia. It's not as spectacular as some of the other subspecies I grow, but it's supposed to be very clonally productive. I'm hoping to be successful at propagating this one enough to be able to give way tubers to people around here who'd like to try tuberous sundews. By now I am sure you have sluthed out my penchant for the rosetted tuberous species, and here is another - D. tubaestylis 'Brookton large' form. You know you are getting deep into collecting a particular group of plants when you start after several forms. Okay, last rosette species. This one is small but very neat. It is D. browniana, the only pink flowered rosette species. It's not super common in cultivation, and I can't say I've done it justice with my photo. Interestingly, it apparently grows only on gold baring rocks. That can't be a good sign for its long term survival. Breaking from the trend, here is a stalked species, D. moorei. It's one of the yellow flowered species, but I have a ways to go to see those. Still it's a nice delicate species, and it is supposed to develop adventitious roots from where the petiole meets the stem. So I am hoping to see that too. This is my first fan-leaved tuberous species and it's already beautiful. This is D. stolinfera, and it's a beauty glistening with dew. Lastly, I have something I've never seen before. In transitioning tubers between hemispheres sometime you get strange behavior. This is a shot of a tuber of D. bulbosa major that looked to be sprouting and so I planted it. But it failed to emerge, so I dug it up to see what the problem was and found this. It seems to have skipped growing entirely this season and just formed a new tuber on top of the old one. Very curious. I only hope that it will make it through the summer okay. Thanks for looking!
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