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Post by lloyd on Jan 20, 2016 17:02:00 GMT -5
As I mentioned, I have a few of these. I keep them under lights but not covered. They seem OK in low humidity (~25%). I tried feeding then with freeze-dried blood worms but they didn't seem great for the plants and they made me sneeze a lot. Lately I've been spraying daily with orchid fertilizer diluted with rain water to a TDS of 50 ppm. They are doing very well with this. My Drosophyllum is also responding well to the same conditions.
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Post by Apoplast on Jan 20, 2016 20:58:09 GMT -5
Hi frederick - Thank for your kind words! I don't sell plants. I try to spread the love other ways. Hi Shelbykid - Thanks! It's really not too difficult to grow these species. Like any CP, or plant for that matter, you just need to meet its requirements. Then they are easy. Hi lloyd - Yup, they don't mid low humidity. Mine are rarely above 20% RH now. They still look happy and dewy. Good to knwo that they respond to fertilizer application too! I've got some MaxSea, but I've been feeding them collembola. They seem to like it. But fertilizer would be a nice back up. Thanks for the tip!
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Post by frederick on Jan 21, 2016 13:16:10 GMT -5
Lloyd, have you been foliar feeding only or in the substrate also?
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Post by lloyd on Jan 21, 2016 15:08:44 GMT -5
I try to spray only the leaves but with the basal rosettes some spray goes on the soil.
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Post by Apoplast on Mar 30, 2016 20:31:05 GMT -5
Good day everyone - The season for tuberous dews is quickly winding down for me. But that doesn't mean there isn't a little enjoyment to be had. A few of the species that flower a bit later are looking quite nice at the moment. For starters, here is Drosera moorei, part of the white-tuber, yellow-flower Drosera subhirtella complex. I love the intense yellow flowers on this species, and I've been waiting a few years to get them. This year they finally treated me! This next one is a fairly rare species in cultivation. It is Drosera esperensis. It was recently split out of the Drosera microphylla complex. The plant is never large, but is always jelly red. Just beautiful! The flowers are a bit small this year, and I don't know why. Last year the petals were about double the size and more reflexed, though the sepals were similarly sized. I'm not sure what is happening with this one just yet. Drosera esperensis is such an uncommon species in cultivation, I thought I would post a second photo where you can see the flower details a bit better. It's really a very nice little plant. Thanks for looking!
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Post by frederick on Apr 1, 2016 17:49:59 GMT -5
Wow that D. esperensis seems gorgeous, do you have pictures of the whole plant? It's the first time I've heard about this species!
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Post by amanitovirosa on Apr 1, 2016 19:51:05 GMT -5
...WOW!, those are beautiful, really nice. Nice growing there AP, you're probably growing Drosera that haven't even been discovered yet. AV.
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Post by Apoplast on Apr 1, 2016 21:26:39 GMT -5
Hi Frederick - Thanks! D. esperensis has been known for a while in cultivation as the white flowered form of D. microphylla. D. esperensis (with white petals) was only recently split from D. microphylla (now only with orange petals), along with D. calycina (with wine-red petals - beautiful plant). Unless you are a super tuberous dew nerd, like me, it's not likely you would have worried about the taxonomic shift, or name changes. Wondering about me posting a photo of the whole plant a perfectly reasonable question and expectation. Sadly, I don't have a good photo of the whole plant. I grow my tuberous dews pretty tightly packed, in a fairly small space, and getting a decent shot of a single one of my stem forming species is beyond my photographic skills. I'll see if I can untangle it from the others near it to get a shot, but no promises (it ended up next to a couple of scrambler species this year). Hi AV - Thanks man! I hope I'm not growing anything new to science. Being the only person with something in cultivation is my nightmare scenario - too much responsibility! That's why I try to share plants and seeds around when I can.
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Post by amanitovirosa on Apr 1, 2016 21:44:09 GMT -5
...nightmare???, why?, that's my dream. Responsibility is handled easily, maybe it's the fame you're afraid of...
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Post by hal on Apr 1, 2016 22:31:35 GMT -5
Tuberous Dew Nerd is the name of my Iron Maiden cover band.
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Post by amanitovirosa on Apr 1, 2016 22:52:48 GMT -5
...great!!!, where are you guys playing next. Can't afford real Maiden marked up ticket prices )ACC, Sunday(. I'll come and see you guys!
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Post by Apoplast on Apr 2, 2016 20:15:42 GMT -5
...nightmare???, why?, that's my dream. Responsibility is handled easily, maybe it's the fame you're afraid of... I'm not brave, AV. Not as brave as you. Seriously, I've been the the position of being the only person (for a short time), or the backup person, for plants that are the only ones in cultivation, while their status in the wild was in question. It's nerve wracking to think that if you lose a plant, or you and another person, it might be gone. Period. I've hated being in that spot. I always end up wanting to get them spread around to spread the risk. Even with cultivars, it's how the world lost Sarracenia oreophila 'Don Schnell'. Peter didn't share it around before registering it. Not for me, that's all I know, man.
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Post by amanitovirosa on Apr 2, 2016 22:13:01 GMT -5
...Ok, I didn't think about it that way. Trying to preserve an almost extinct species by cultivating one of the last ones on earth must certainly be nerve wracking!, I don't think I would want that pressure either. What I was thinking was creating a brand new one that no one on earth has yet! Either way those are some great plants man!
AV.
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Post by Apoplast on Apr 4, 2016 9:37:18 GMT -5
Hi AV - I know you were referring to something entirely different than what I described. I also know you are the man to create that brand new cultivar!
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Post by Apoplast on Dec 3, 2016 23:21:12 GMT -5
Hello all - Well tuberous dew season has had a great start for me. Things have started out very well. I credit my record harvest and impressive blooms on my emerging plants to my newfound success with cultivating collembola. They seems to be a wonderful food source for this group! It does mean I am now legitimately raising livestock for my plants. This year I haven't posted any photos yet. Partly because I lost some of my new and unusual acquisitions. Very sad for me! Other than that, everything else has been good, but not of note. Except for a couple of my erythrorhiza complex plants. These are worth sharing! For starters, one of my very clonally productive D. erythrorhiza pots, has never flowered for me. That's not super unusual as many of the clones that are great at producing offsets, are a little more shy about producing flowers. Whether it was the nutritious diet of collembola, or that it was just time, they are blooming this year. And they are weird! Normally, the rosetted tuberous species have fairly similar flowers. About the same decent size. Mostly white. The intensity of the fragrance varies, from not much to sweetly perfumed. But these are odd. They are small, and have an unusual shape. Here is a shot of the flowers with the emerging rosette in the background for a bit of scale. A shot a little closer up, and you can see they really are nice flowers, but not the typical flowers I expect from erythrorhiza complex species! Okay, that was a appetizer. Now for the really odd this so far this year. One of my D. suamosa "Scott River" plants may have an odd mutation. It looks to have gone apetalous! It reminds me of the D. microphylla complex plants where their sepals are really the show. Bu they still have petals. Not this plant this year. Check it out! So, that could be a dead or past maturity flower. That's what I thought at first. But here it is again closer up. You can see the stigma and anthers are fresh and ready to reproduce. This is a flower in full bloom, just missing the petals! I'm going to mark this plant, and carefully follow the tuber down this summer to try to isolate this plant. If it does it again next time (though they don't always bloom every year - ugh!) and it appears stable, I think I will have an actual apetalous clone of D. squamosa on my hands. Cool! Tanks for looking!
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