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Post by fredg on May 30, 2016 18:45:41 GMT
Flowering begins   |
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Post by bobh on Jun 15, 2016 9:46:25 GMT
They look fantastic Fred.
I lost mine, apart from one struggling offshoot, contaminated rainwater collection due to building work!!!!
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Post by fredg on Jun 15, 2016 11:29:57 GMT
Both inflorescences have two flowers open now. I'm still struggling on how to persuade the plants to flower in the best orientation for my photos so I can get a reasonable background. Until then this is about the best I can do without lugging large dripping pots, with traps hanging out the bottom, around.  |
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Post by fredg on Jun 16, 2016 18:39:03 GMT
The foliage that goes with the above flowers.  |
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Post by fredg on Jun 24, 2016 14:15:03 GMT
Both inflorescences are now at the three flower stage.  |
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Post by fredg on Jun 26, 2016 19:08:54 GMT
And then there were four.   |
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Post by fredg on Jul 2, 2016 9:51:56 GMT
And then there were five.  Awwwww! This very bottom one has gone over  |
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Post by fredg on Jul 10, 2016 15:45:05 GMT
The situation as on July 7th  |
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Post by fredg on Mar 10, 2017 15:09:03 GMT
Today I decided to remove the old withered leaves from the pots. To make it a little easier I lifted the pots out, it saves leaning over a big tub of Drosophyllum, and growing down beneath the pots was this little chappie.   No traps on it but it's nice and healthy. It resides in its own super long tom now |
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Post by corky on Mar 11, 2017 10:23:56 GMT
My pot of u. Reniformis has never done very well at all, I kept it in the pot and mix it came in . Think it's time I took your advice and replanted it in sphagnum , the mix it's in looks peat based , time to wash off the old and pot in sphagnum for the new season I reckon , I gave it two seasons and no good for me
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Post by stevebooth on Mar 11, 2017 16:29:13 GMT
The Sphagnum in a net pot works well for me Corky it seems to give more air to the roots.
Cheers
Steve
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Post by nimbulan on Mar 11, 2017 16:49:22 GMT
I've had people warn against net pots because the stolons can grow through them and get stuck, necessitating breaking them to repot the plant.
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Post by corky on Mar 11, 2017 17:20:46 GMT
Thanks for the tips , I've already done the repot before I read these, I used sphagnum and a normal pot , I was surprised to see leaves were sprouting, when I washed off the old mix there was less plant than I expected
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Post by stevebooth on Mar 12, 2017 16:03:18 GMT
I've had people warn against net pots because the stolons can grow through them and get stuck, necessitating breaking them to repot the plant. The net pot I am using is about 250 mm square and has very narrow slits probably less than 1mm in width and hasn't shown any signs of stolons coming through as yet, although you are absolutely right, with wider slotted net pots, that could happen. Cheers steve |
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Post by fredg on Apr 30, 2017 12:00:40 GMT
Well it took long enough for the plants to start showing this year's growth but it is now well under way.  Now we await the inflorescences |
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not here it isn't