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Post by kdawg on Jul 19, 2016 20:26:57 GMT -5
In the early New Year H20 gave me a pinch of N.truncata seeds to play with and I thought I would share a few progress pics. I believe they were produced a forum member here. Whoever you are (obviously a wizard) you made huge seeds! Nice work! Very healthy stuff. Six months old
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Post by bradt on Jul 20, 2016 1:05:01 GMT -5
Nice!
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Post by shoggoths on Jul 21, 2016 19:55:18 GMT -5
Dang, there's a forest in there!
Great success.
Congrat.
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Post by dvg on Jul 21, 2016 20:17:31 GMT -5
Those look very happy and healthy. Great work there! dvg
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Post by amanitovirosa on Jul 22, 2016 8:23:19 GMT -5
Those look very happy and healthy. Great work there! dvg ...ahh, the Creator chimes in, haha. Nice work Kdawg! AV.
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Post by hebtwo on Jul 22, 2016 9:17:26 GMT -5
So cute. When you get a chance, share some of your germinating conditions!
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Post by exoticplantseller on Jul 22, 2016 11:10:17 GMT -5
WOW! That is a high germination RATE! I planted some edwardsiana seeds a couple months ago but none have germinated. I planted them in peat moss. Yours look very healthy. Best of luck.
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Post by kdawg on Jul 22, 2016 11:23:06 GMT -5
Thanks folks! AV, Thanks for revealing the creator lol! dvg, (wizard) thank you for creating the high quality seed! Hebtwo, I propagated these with a pretty simple setup. One inch of nonliving sphag in a basic plant flat (with dome). The flat sits on a heat mat that is hooked up to a thermostat with the sensor inserted in the sphag keeping the media between 75-78F. Indoors under 2X 36inch T5 sunblasters. 16/8 photoperiod. I foliar feed periodically with Maxsea but recently I’ve noticed that they are eating some sort of springtail as the pitchers are half full of very tiny dead insects.
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Post by dvg on Jul 22, 2016 15:59:20 GMT -5
Those seeds, at the time you germinated them Kdawg, were already close to 4 months out from being harvested. The fact that you were able to get such a high germination rate with 120 day old seed, says something about both your cultivation technique as well as the seed shelf life viability for some Nep species. Try doing that trick with N. ampullaria or N. bicalarata seeds that old and the results would probably be entirely different. Still, very nice technique there, Kdawg and best of luck with your N. truncata seedlings. Here is a link to the original give-away thread, for more info on the mother and father plants of your seeds. ocps.proboards.com/thread/7570/truncata-home-species-giveaway-closeddvg
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Post by kdawg on Jul 23, 2016 13:03:17 GMT -5
Wow, dvg, Thanks for the link! it was before my time here so I appreciate knowing the history. The parent plants are amazing! moving forward ill make sure I put future updates in the original thread. Thanks again for making the seed! I look forward to seeing the offspring in the future (If I can keep them alive)
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Post by hebtwo on Jul 25, 2016 20:56:04 GMT -5
Thanks folks! AV, Thanks for revealing the creator lol! dvg, (wizard) thank you for creating the high quality seed! Hebtwo, I propagated these with a pretty simple setup. One inch of nonliving sphag in a basic plant flat (with dome). The flat sits on a heat mat that is hooked up to a thermostat with the sensor inserted in the sphag keeping the media between 75-78F. Indoors under 2X 36inch T5 sunblasters. 16/8 photoperiod. I foliar feed periodically with Maxsea but recently I’ve noticed that they are eating some sort of springtail as the pitchers are half full of very tiny dead insects. I'm curious if you ran into any mould issues during germination? Or did you pre-treat the sphag with fungicide prior to sowing? I always tend to run into mould when germinating in trays with domes.
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Post by Justintime on Jul 26, 2016 0:52:14 GMT -5
Thanks folks! AV, Thanks for revealing the creator lol! dvg, (wizard) thank you for creating the high quality seed! Hebtwo, I propagated these with a pretty simple setup. One inch of nonliving sphag in a basic plant flat (with dome). The flat sits on a heat mat that is hooked up to a thermostat with the sensor inserted in the sphag keeping the media between 75-78F. Indoors under 2X 36inch T5 sunblasters. 16/8 photoperiod. I foliar feed periodically with Maxsea but recently I’ve noticed that they are eating some sort of springtail as the pitchers are half full of very tiny dead insects. I'm curious if you ran into any mould issues during germination? Or did you pre-treat the sphag with fungicide prior to sowing? I always tend to run into mould when germinating in trays with domes. Springtails eat mould there a handy bug to have around
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Post by dvg on Jul 26, 2016 14:52:44 GMT -5
moving forward ill make sure I put future updates in the original thread. Thanks again for making the seed! I look forward to seeing the offspring in the future (If I can keep them alive) Hi Kdawg, no need to put your future updates in the original give-away thread. Your thread here has a very impressive opening post and looking forward to seeing your seedling's progress over time. dvg
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Post by kdawg on Aug 3, 2016 12:07:31 GMT -5
Thanks folks! AV, Thanks for revealing the creator lol! dvg, (wizard) thank you for creating the high quality seed! Hebtwo, I propagated these with a pretty simple setup. One inch of nonliving sphag in a basic plant flat (with dome). The flat sits on a heat mat that is hooked up to a thermostat with the sensor inserted in the sphag keeping the media between 75-78F. Indoors under 2X 36inch T5 sunblasters. 16/8 photoperiod. I foliar feed periodically with Maxsea but recently I’ve noticed that they are eating some sort of springtail as the pitchers are half full of very tiny dead insects. I'm curious if you ran into any mould issues during germination? Or did you pre-treat the sphag with fungicide prior to sowing? I always tend to run into mould when germinating in trays with domes. Hi Hebtwo, prior to planting, I boiled the sphag on the bbq burner for about 30min (wife thinks I,m nutz). Off the start a few (8-10 seeds) got contaminated for sure. I'm not sure if the embryo developed mold because it was infertile or it just happened to a choice few. I had a few seeds that I could see mold starting right when the root was coming out of the seed but I find that a spraying with straight water often seemed to break the spore cycle. Once they leafed out they seemed good to go. I have no-damp but I am afraid to use it on these touchy little characters. Has anyone else used it on Neps? It worked very well for me on contaminated Sarr and Flytrap seeds while waiting for germination.
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Post by kdawg on Mar 11, 2017 18:00:05 GMT -5
Testing this Tapatalk thingy so I thought I'd try it with an update pic.
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