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Post by tom on Mar 19, 2006 13:59:00 GMT -5
Hi, as some may know, a lot of sundews (and utrics) can be propagated by putting a whole leaf in sterile/distilled water in a Mason jar, and wait for the plantlets to grow on the lamina few weeks later to put later on planted and acclimatized to normal growing conditions. For some reasons, I have done such cuttings in Feb 2005 and haven't been able to plant then in the right time... Now, more than a year later, the plantlets are still alive in the pots! They have elongated, 'soft' growth, but they are still alive and 'protected' from attacks from outside. This technique allowed me once to save a lot of plants when I was away for the summer to make my internship in ecology (and I left my collection to a friend, you surely all know what happened), but this is the first time I let them in this state this long. Note that not all plants can stand this long (U. longofolia show sign of 'exasperation' after 6 months), but it can be useful to be done few weeks before going on vacation, demanding no cares, and taking very little space
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Post by cchang on Mar 29, 2006 11:49:12 GMT -5
Hi Tom... haven't "seen" you in awhile. Not sure if you remember me.
If only I saw this post before I lost my U. tricolor.
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Post by tom on Mar 29, 2006 14:57:14 GMT -5
I haven't tried it with U. tricolor, but it worked nicely with U. longifolia, nephrophylla and a bit with reniformis when i tried it with these species.
I should have a little extra by U. tricolor by this summer, I'll you know
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Post by jimscott on Apr 3, 2006 9:33:48 GMT -5
I do something similar with D. binata & filiformis. I put leaves in 50 ml centrifuge tubes and let them sprout.
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