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Post by Dennis Z on Oct 1, 2015 18:43:22 GMT -5
I was wondering how long I can keep darlingtonia and sarracenia seedlings without giving them a dormancy. My cobra lilies are at their 2nd year without dormancy and I'd really like to give them another year of growth since they are painfully slow growers.
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Post by lloyd on Oct 1, 2015 19:25:32 GMT -5
Once they have adult leaves they should have dormancy, 2-3 years at most.
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Post by roraima on Oct 2, 2015 15:07:31 GMT -5
I will second Lloyd on this one. I would go ahead and skip dormancy for this year but by next Fall you should definitely give them a full dormancy. It's tempting to skip dormancy for even longer but the plants will go downhill suddenly and often die (from personal experience).
If you're finding the seedling growth to be especially slow, you should consider misiting the seedlings with diluted orchid fertilizer follwed by a misting of freshwater ~1 a week. The results are amazing.
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Post by Dennis Z on Oct 4, 2015 19:02:35 GMT -5
Thanks for the responses. I will try misting with diluted orchid fertilizer, hopefully it'll speed up the growth. I honestly lost track of when I sowed the cobra lily seeds, I'm going to have to search up my past posts to see if I made any about germinating darlingtonia seed. I also re-potted them so I hope I didn't set them back too much..... A friend who came over to purchase some plants seemed to really wanted a cobra lily so I couldn't help but rip him a clump.
Have you guys tried fertilizing with osmocote pellets? I've heard mixed reviews about using them, but the positive feedback I've read up on makes me want to try them.
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Post by ontariotraps on Oct 5, 2015 16:49:13 GMT -5
2 years I say as for osmacoate fertilizer I put 3 in each pot that's with watering from below (tray) method. Burry the pellets a couple cm under soil
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