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Post by Devon on Sept 29, 2014 15:08:04 GMT -5
Hello, Here are a few plants that are looking happy this fall. The Sarras are from the BCP order. S. x excellens S. leucophylla (Santa Rosa Co., FL, USA) Sarracenia leucophylla x S. rubra ssp. gulfensis (Yellow River, Santa Rosa Co., Florida, USA) Sarracenia leucophylla (Perdido, Baldwin Co., AL, USA) Dionaea 'Bimbo' microdent x weinrot Thanks for taking a look!
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Post by ilikewhatido on Sept 29, 2014 15:19:18 GMT -5
Nice plants! microdent x weinrot is a very nice clone. I am guessing Bimbo is another giant form?
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Post by Maiden on Sept 29, 2014 17:51:57 GMT -5
Great plants devon !
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Post by Raymond on Sept 29, 2014 18:35:57 GMT -5
Nice If this was entered in Plants of the Month, we all would of lost... Instantly!
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Post by hal on Sept 29, 2014 20:25:53 GMT -5
Very nice Devon. How are you planning to put them through dormancy? I have a few new sarrs from the south that I don't want to trust to my garage so I'm curious to know how other people overwinter their tender sarrs.
Great photos, too. You seem to be able to manipulate the depth of field perfectly. What lens are you using?
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Post by Devon on Sept 29, 2014 21:25:49 GMT -5
Thanks everyone! Thanks. Yes, Bimbo is a giant form. Mine is still young, though. Thanks Ian. I'm going to make a dormancy chamber this year. My plan is to get a couple mini greenhouses and put them in the garage. I will have a heater pumping warm air into them and thermostats to keep them 2-8*C. I will also have a few low-power fluorescents so they can photosynthesis a little bit while in dormancy. Either that, or I'm blowing a bunch of money on a big cooler. Funny you should ask - I recently bought a new lens since I'm getting into product photography and it actually does manipulate the depth of field. It is a Nikon 85mm PC-E tilt-shift. Edit: I posted a pic here where you can see the plane of focus. The plane of focus is parallel to the hot dog so most of it is in focus, and the chips and area behind it fall out of focus. Tilt shift is also great if you want to get more in focus with using a smaller aperture. You don't need as much light, and you can still get nice bokeh.
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Post by hal on Sept 29, 2014 22:04:49 GMT -5
I was going to buy a bar fridge this weekend but figure I can put everything I have now in plastic boxes in one of the crisper drawers of my kitchen fridge. I may also set up an insulated box with a heat pad in the garage, but I don't trust that as much as the fridge where I can get a constant 3 degrees.
One day I may convince my partners to buy a tilt shift lens for taking photos of our architectural projects. I downloaded a Tilt-shift video app for my iPhone but it's kinda Mickey Mouse. Just blurs the edges of the video.
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Post by lloyd on Sept 29, 2014 22:32:58 GMT -5
I think 2-8C is too warm for overwintering Sarr's. Mine do really well at -3C->+3C with occasional drops to -5C. Even when the pots freeze all the way through for a few days it seems to be Ok. Also they don't seem to need any light at all. They like to come out when it's raining and the temps are over +5C. Perhaps some species are more sensitive but even Southern Florida has frosts some years.
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Post by Devon on Sept 29, 2014 23:25:34 GMT -5
I think 2-8C is too warm for overwintering Sarr's. Mine do really well at -3C->+3C with occasional drops to -5C. Even when the pots freeze all the way through for a few days it seems to be Ok. Also they don't seem to need any light at all. They like to come out when it's raining and the temps are over +5C. Perhaps some species are more sensitive but even Southern Florida has frosts some years. If 8*C is too warm I can probably keep it lower. I just don't know how stable it will be is the problem. I have had a few plants freeze once or twice - notably strong plants were S. oreophila and S. purpurea ssp. purpurea of course. Weaker flytraps and more Southern plants didn't survive though. A bar fridge would definitely be easier to manage, but the heat pad in the box idea sounds promising. It seems like most "tilt-shift" effects you see just go for that look. Doesn't come close to what you can do with the actual lens, but the lenses are expensive!
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Post by Maiden on Sept 30, 2014 0:37:49 GMT -5
I was going to buy a bar fridge this weekend but figure I can put everything I have now in plastic boxes in one of the crisper drawers of my kitchen fridge. I may also set up an insulated box with a heat pad in the garage, but I don't trust that as much as the fridge where I can get a constant 3 degrees. One day I may convince my partners to buy a tilt shift lens for taking photos of our architectural projects. I downloaded a Tilt-shift video app for my iPhone but it's kinda Mickey Mouse. Just blurs the edges of the video. Last few years i use the fridg method for all my vfts and sars, with perfect results. Of course 3C 24/7 is not a real insitu mimic, but its enough for a good dormancy. In my appartment i have a room only for my plants. I have a open window all summer long so when the fall is coming, my plants got cooler temps and fall slowly asleep. At this time, the temperature in the room is 10-12C. When my plants are 100% asleep, i cut the remaining dying pitchers/traps, i bag them in black sealed plastic bag. The soil have to be 90% dry, and of course i mist them 4-5 shots before closing the bags. The dormant plants will use that little water all winter long. I open the bag once a month to see if everything is fine. Sometimes a 'spider web looking' white moldt will be visible on the soil. I just remove it with my fingers, its harmless to the plants. When the spring come(april), and outside temps are 10-15C, i just unbag the whole thing are place the plants next to my open window. And then the plants slowly awake with warmer temps. For dormancy i use black bags because the sars/vfts stop their growing at 100%. So they dont need any photosynthesis(from what i know, and based on my results). All the energy they need are stocked in the bulb/rhizome for the next spring. Thats why its a good thing feeding your plants 2-3 weeks before dormancy.
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Post by lloyd on Sept 30, 2014 8:29:55 GMT -5
I take them out in the spring when it is above 3C. If it goes below that, I put them back-usually at night.
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Post by shoggoths on Sept 30, 2014 10:21:16 GMT -5
Like Lloyd, I put my sarr and VFT in an unheated garage. I place them in a opaque plastic box. So, no light at all for all the winter. If you give them some light, it must be strong enought otherwise your plants will grow etiolated. Make a good soil cleaning to remove dead stuff otherwise mould will grow from it. Let the green leave on, they will help for photosynthesis next spring.
This year, I let some VFT and sarr outside under the snow cover to see what happens. I had success with temperate pings that way in the past. We'll see in Spring!
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Post by vraev on Sept 30, 2014 23:00:29 GMT -5
Those are some spectacular pics of some amazing plants Devon. Very well done. I love the sharpness, the colour and just the vigor of those plants. very very nice.
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