Post by hal on Oct 20, 2015 21:49:23 GMT -5
I was the happy recipient of a few overgrown pots of pings this week and tonight I divided them up and though I'd share some photos.
There were 2 moranensis in the group. This one I'm calling G2. Note the white throat and darker ring on the inside of the flower. The leaves are fairly round as well.
Then there is this one with a more uniformly purple flower. It's G1. I suspect these flowers may be a brighter pink when they first come out. The leaves on this one are also slightly darker and longer. But leaves on pings can change shape and especially change colour depending on what you had for breakfast so they aren't great for identification.
Here's a pot with 2 varieties in it - the first moranensis and a forest of P. "Weser".
They are ready to divide. I just pull the whole bunch out, look for growth points from above then gently but firmly pull the plants apart. Leaves will drop of and I save them for pullings. I then pull all the old dead leaves off the bottom of the plant. Here's the results about 1/2 way through.
Eventually there were 5 moranensis and 18 Weser.
Here's a P. gigantea with at least 4 growth points on it. Looks like it is ready to divide.
But if you look at the bottom there really is only one root and if I try to split this up I'll end up with one small plant and lots of leaf pullings so I'm going to leave it alone for a few months. There were a couple of babies under the plant that probably formed from dropped leaves so they'll go in a separate pot.
Here they are all planted up plus a couple more. I put them in a mix that's 6:3:1 peat:perlite:aquatic plant soil. I mound it up in the pot, tamp it down then top it up to get a nice mound sticking above the pot. I poke a pencil in the soil to make a hole for the root and pop the plant in - not too deep! Then I gently squeeze the soil around the base of the plant and mist the whole plant well to wash off any dirt sticking to the leaves and to help the soil settle over the roots. And I fill the tray with an inch of water with 1/4 strength orchid fertilizer.
Lots of plants and leaf pullings there for a spring ping fling. And here's the beginnings of my newly resurrected Ping collection with some succulents below.
There were 2 moranensis in the group. This one I'm calling G2. Note the white throat and darker ring on the inside of the flower. The leaves are fairly round as well.
Then there is this one with a more uniformly purple flower. It's G1. I suspect these flowers may be a brighter pink when they first come out. The leaves on this one are also slightly darker and longer. But leaves on pings can change shape and especially change colour depending on what you had for breakfast so they aren't great for identification.
Here's a pot with 2 varieties in it - the first moranensis and a forest of P. "Weser".
They are ready to divide. I just pull the whole bunch out, look for growth points from above then gently but firmly pull the plants apart. Leaves will drop of and I save them for pullings. I then pull all the old dead leaves off the bottom of the plant. Here's the results about 1/2 way through.
Eventually there were 5 moranensis and 18 Weser.
Here's a P. gigantea with at least 4 growth points on it. Looks like it is ready to divide.
But if you look at the bottom there really is only one root and if I try to split this up I'll end up with one small plant and lots of leaf pullings so I'm going to leave it alone for a few months. There were a couple of babies under the plant that probably formed from dropped leaves so they'll go in a separate pot.
Here they are all planted up plus a couple more. I put them in a mix that's 6:3:1 peat:perlite:aquatic plant soil. I mound it up in the pot, tamp it down then top it up to get a nice mound sticking above the pot. I poke a pencil in the soil to make a hole for the root and pop the plant in - not too deep! Then I gently squeeze the soil around the base of the plant and mist the whole plant well to wash off any dirt sticking to the leaves and to help the soil settle over the roots. And I fill the tray with an inch of water with 1/4 strength orchid fertilizer.
Lots of plants and leaf pullings there for a spring ping fling. And here's the beginnings of my newly resurrected Ping collection with some succulents below.