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Post by Flytrap on Sept 24, 2006 15:36:19 GMT -5
I haven't grown burmanii for years. So imagine my surprise last month when cleaning old sarracenia pitchers in my garden, when I found a lone burmanii growing in a pot of s.flava! I figure that the seed must have originated from burmaniis I had grown a number of years ago, and had been thriving in the sarracenia jungle next to my pond (outdoors) without my notice. I figure the seed must have been still viable when I reused some old compost when I repotted the s flava earlier this year. So I've now pulled him out and gave him (her?) it's own pot. I hope it flowers soon
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Post by mabudon on Sept 26, 2006 7:38:07 GMT -5
that's a cute little feller!! Cool that it re-appeared for you after so long- looks like a sign that you gotta start growing Drosera again, eh ?? I still have a D.burmanii that has been flowering for over a year, getting smaller and smaller and not making seeds- in the pot where it lives, there is one Big D.spatulata of some kind and literally dozens of TINY dews that hevn been there for a year or so- they appear to be a mix of spats and D.burmanii, but they are so crowded that they are all too small to ID.... I'm not sure what my personal "Lazarus Dew" is, but in my outdoor bog I have hordes of rosetted stuff coming up that I never planted- if any of them survive the winter, I'll have to digure they are D.rotundifolia that were in the peat moss, but I haven't seen any hibernaculae yet, leading me to think they are just volunteer D.spatulata.. oddly enough, they are NOT D.capensis
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Post by vraev on Oct 10, 2006 18:35:51 GMT -5
wow....that looks amazing. cute little guy. I really need stuff like that for my terrarium. I need the small pygmy dews. hey carl, rick has a couple which he is going to put into production soon...so next summer when I get a load of plants from him....they are going to join the party. Btw...carl.....do u have sprawling rotondofolia's if yes...please save me a good small one before the winter takes it away??
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Post by mabudon on Oct 11, 2006 7:30:04 GMT -5
PM-ing you now, Varun
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Post by PingKing on Oct 25, 2006 16:16:30 GMT -5
That is one of my favorite sundew. ;D
Xavier
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Post by Flytrap on Oct 26, 2006 9:24:49 GMT -5
Apparently, a lot of people grow this species as an annual. Any of you grow it year round? I'm still waiting for it to flower...so I can get some seeds to share I had dropped a fruit fly on it last week to see if the tentacles move as quickly as is claimed in all the write ups about it. But it hardly moved...maybe it's in too cool a location.
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Post by mabudon on Oct 26, 2006 12:57:11 GMT -5
I still have a straggly-looking plant that has refused to die for almost 2 years, but it is getting smaller and smaller- it's prety much seedling sized now and I think the sun's setting on heem, but seeds don't seem too hard to come by if I ever get the hankering to make another- mine set seeds a few times but they never actually "worked" for who knows what reason, so Good Luck FT
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Post by Syble on Oct 26, 2006 20:21:47 GMT -5
I cannot remember where I read it, but there are ways to keep it going. once it starts to decline, you have 2 choices, decapitate, or transplant (cleaning off all the skirt while your at it). apparently it works, but I'm just saying what I've read elsewhere! Thanks, Sib
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Post by jimscott on Nov 1, 2006 12:20:14 GMT -5
It sure can be a weed! I keep finding plants sprouting in other pots. Don't know how they got there...
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Post by tom on Nov 12, 2006 8:44:12 GMT -5
I've grown this plants during 2-3 years and my specimens live more than a year, but usually flowering trigger the 'final countdown' in my case. I've read somewhere too (Dionée's journal I think) that if you remove the carpet of older dead leaves gently under the plant, it could help to have it to live longer in cultivation. The reason was something like the new roots coudln't grow properly from the base of the plant to the soil since the leaves restrained them. It would rejoin the Syb's decapitation hypothesis too.
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Post by Flytrap on Jan 26, 2007 14:32:45 GMT -5
Darn. The little guy croaked without ever setting seeds. Looks like another "want" on my 2007 list.
Maybe the sundew fever is catching up to me... first it was prolifera, now it's burmanii. Lord help me if I really get obsessed with collecting sundews. My neps will get jealous.
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Post by vraev on Jan 26, 2007 18:07:45 GMT -5
lol! I am getting the other way...I am thinking too much about the rajah nowadays ...my VFT's will sulk
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