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Post by canuk1w1 on Jul 1, 2014 17:57:23 GMT -5
The idea for this came from reading how they grow on islands or mats of vegetation. I'm hoping to control fungus gnats as well as improve aesthetics. Maiden is doing something similar but not sure if for the same reasons? This Heli is potted in a 5" orchid pot and sits in a small glass vase terrarium. Substrate for the terrarium is peat and silica sand. I scattered some LFS around too but live moss is taking very well to this environment - this small red peat is growing in the Heli pot but I'm not having much luck growing it on its own. The H. minor was almost completely overgrown until a trim last week. The U. humboldtii is starting to propagate now. I think these are stolons? Initially, the large leaf dried up but the stolons remained alive and it seems to be establishing itself quite nicely. The bladders are clearly visible. .
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Post by shoggoths on Jul 1, 2014 18:10:09 GMT -5
Nice, good luck G.
I keep my humboldtii in an undrained pot with the water level to the rim ... I think your humb will settle in the water but can't say if it will 'raise' in the LFS.
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Post by lloyd on Jul 1, 2014 20:22:25 GMT -5
Those are certainly one of the types of stolons.
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Post by HaruShin on Jul 2, 2014 0:07:22 GMT -5
Damn...I can never get mine to really grow like that under so much algae... Perhaps I should try using the peat:silica mix without having it submerged.
Greg, do you have the pot in a highland setup?
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Post by vraev on Jul 2, 2014 1:25:41 GMT -5
I still have doubts if this is actually U. humboldtii. I used to grow this inside a bromeliad. But in the end, it eventually led to the death of the bromeliad by choking the growth point with algae. Most plants in the wild are characterized by that big leaf. pic from terra forums
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Post by lloyd on Jul 2, 2014 7:06:22 GMT -5
U. Humboldtii has a number of different kinds of stolons depending on size and conditions. All the pictures on this thread are typical.
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Post by canuk1w1 on Jul 2, 2014 17:25:04 GMT -5
Nice, good luck G. I keep my humboldtii in an undrained pot with the water level to the rim ... I think your humb will settle in the water but can't say if it will 'raise' in the LFS. So far so good. There seems to be enough water to keep it and the live LFS happy. I'm still waiting to see if it grows back the large leaves it had when I acquired it. Damn...I can never get mine to really grow like that under so much algae... Perhaps I should try using the peat:silica mix without having it submerged. Greg, do you have the pot in a highland setup? Not really. I'm cooling with ice cubes now but it's in a bright room with a large temperature drop so intermediate/highland. There's no algae in here - yet. I used rinsed peat, a bit of rehydrated LFS and some sprigs of live moss. FWIW, I also scattered a few grains (literally, 1/4 teaspoon would almost be too much) of kelp meal before adding the substrate. It gets water that seeps out of the pitchers. I've not remove any water from this reservoir nor added any except for single ice cubes. U. Humboldtii has a number of different kinds of stolons depending on size and conditions. All the pictures on this thread are typical. I'm observing this as well. I'm growing the main colony in a plastic terrarium. It's in a peat/bark mix and is showing a completely different growth habit. Both colonies were split off the original from Lucst.
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