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Post by kiwipete on Mar 21, 2016 5:02:54 GMT -5
I'm growing number P emarginata for the first time from seed. They will soon have there first NZ winter.
From what I have read this Ping can be kept wet all year round if I kept them warm.
Should I keep some plants warm & wet and some on cool & dry ? KP.
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Post by shoggoths on Mar 21, 2016 8:01:02 GMT -5
I don't know your growing conditions but in my set-up, emarginata never get in a winter form.
I keep them in a 100% mineral mix.
The one on the windowsill are rather on the dry side and the one in my grow chamber (under T5HO) on the wet side so both conditions should be alright. You have to find which will give you the better result. My windowsill plants bloom much than the other one.
Also, I usually never let the media comes bone dry.
Finally, if your plants are still tiny, I would not let them get dry too much.
Good luck but I can't help much ... sorry.
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Post by roraima on Mar 21, 2016 14:04:40 GMT -5
I would recommend pretty much exactly what Shoggs said.
I keep my emarginta's in an all mineral mix. I've never had them go dormant in several years of growing and I keep them sitting in a few cm's of water with no problem.
Under natural (wIndow sill light) and T5HO light this species grows well for me. My temps in the Fall and Winter get cool but they don't seem to mind even with the wetness.
Good growing!
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Post by H2O on Mar 21, 2016 14:14:51 GMT -5
I can also verify that this is the way to grow them. I let one of my pots dry between waterings and it just got smaller and smaller. They like it wet and warm, once flowering they just don't stop.
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Post by kiwipete on Mar 25, 2016 20:35:07 GMT -5
Thanks for all your help. The P. emarginata are on a windowsill with my P. moctezumae at the moment. The P. moctezumae is there all year round and seems to be happy. The P. emarginata were my first Ebay seed sucess. They are only eight months old, with one about to flower. KP.
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Post by hal on Mar 25, 2016 21:25:14 GMT -5
The leaves on that plant don't look like a pure P. emarginata, Pete. The leaves are usually rounder, have some red in them and are more turned up on the edges. It'll be interesting to see the flower. P. emarginata has a very distinctive one.
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Post by kiwipete on Mar 25, 2016 22:19:36 GMT -5
Thanks hal. I did expect the plants may not be pure P. emarginata base on photos I had seen on the net. We may get an ID when the flower opens. I think I will reduce the watering until I find out what it is. Otherwise I'm happy with my Ebay purchase, an actual Ping in flower from seed in 8 months.
BTW, I have posted updated P. moranensis "Pachuca" photos under my growlist thread. KP.
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Post by kiwipete on May 6, 2016 23:51:55 GMT -5
....... It'll be interesting to see the flower. P. emarginata has a very distinctive one. Hal as you can see from the photos below the seeds are not of P. emarginata. Going by the CP Photofinder page I think is P. moctezumae x P. emarginata or P. emarginata x P. moctezumae. The photos are from two different plants form the same batch of seeds. KP.
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Post by hal on May 7, 2016 0:19:17 GMT -5
They have that distinctive veining, so there's definitely some emarginata in their family tree. The flowers are handsome. That's a hybrid worth propagating. P. Zealand?
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Post by WillyCKH on Jun 2, 2016 10:25:08 GMT -5
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