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Post by Rick Hillier on Jun 20, 2007 20:58:36 GMT -5
Back in January, I had received a specimen of D. schizandra from Cooks Carnivorous Plants. I potted it up in LFS right away... I don't recall the exact timeline, but for about a month or two, it grew very well for me, but then the growth crown went brown and the whole plant went south fairly quickly.
I examined the roots of the plant and found them to be in fairly good shape, so I made several cuttings and laid them horizontally about 1/8" deep in the LFS.
Nothing happened for over 6 weeks and I gave up on them, planting some darlingtonia seed right on top of the whole works.
I just checked the pot tonight for signs of darlintonia germination and to my surprise, found four young plants coming off one of the root cuttings, so I now have ol' "Schizzy" back and it feels great.
I'll try to get some pictures up tomorrow.
Now this is all great, but I am somewhat worried about a repeat performance. I grew this plant with other drosera in a pot of LFS in an aquarium under twin 40-watt fluorescent lights.
Does anyone have any good cultivation tips for this species that would help me from blowing these babies away?
Thanks in advance,
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by mabudon on Jun 21, 2007 8:25:13 GMT -5
SCHIZZZ!!!Tips??? Well, remember what you did the first time?? Do the opposite OR you could just let me grow it..... Seriously tho, low light, high media moisture level, decent circulation, somewhat cool-ish temps and you should be golden- I'd be putting it in my fishbowl on my north facing window myself, and they are apparently real sensitive to any chemicals whatsoever, especially fertilizer, moreso than the other 2 "sisters"
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jun 21, 2007 9:59:27 GMT -5
Here is the pic of the shoots coming up from the root cuttings. >>> Rick <<<
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Post by mabudon on Jun 21, 2007 10:06:02 GMT -5
that's awesome- as long as you can keep it alive for another day or so, I'll actually get to add the species to my "seen it in person" list Even tho it came from "cooks", I think you should avoid cooking it and you should be okay, wouldn't you figure??
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jun 21, 2007 10:15:50 GMT -5
that's awesome- as long as you can keep it alive for another day or so, I'll actually get to add the species to my "seen it in person" list Even tho it came from "cooks", I think you should avoid cooking it and you should be okay, wouldn't you figure?? Terrible pun, mab I'm hoping they'll be fine where they are for the time being... once they grow out a big and get roots of their own, I may move a couple to different areas of my grow area. >>> Rick <<<
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Post by PingKing on Jun 21, 2007 11:16:51 GMT -5
Rick 2, 40 watts might have burned the top of the plant less light and more himidity.
;D
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jun 21, 2007 12:02:47 GMT -5
I kind of figured that might be the case... I may move a couple to a domed pot underneath one of my larger nepenthes.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by lloyd on Jun 21, 2007 20:04:24 GMT -5
It's amazing how sundews can come back from "nothing". Good luck.
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Post by vraev on Jun 21, 2007 22:47:29 GMT -5
I saw this kind of a phenomenon with sarr seedlings. I was once pulling out a sarr seedling from my capensis infested pot. Unfortunately I snapped the leaf, root and stem. Just in case, I put all of them in my pot of VFT seedlings. Interestingly it came back.
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