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Post by fredg on Jul 13, 2015 18:35:36 GMT
Heliamphora X heterodoxa x ionasii flower.  Heliamphora ionasii inflorescence - flower and bract pitcher  The top bract pitcher (left) is small but the bottom bract pitcher (right) is much larger and capable of trapping prey.  
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jeff
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Post by jeff on Dec 31, 2015 7:55:42 GMT
Bonjour
strange your stem- ascidie ?
surely a cultivation problem
jeff
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Post by fredg on Dec 31, 2015 8:08:54 GMT
It's no kind of problem. It's just a natural occurrence with bracts on flower stems
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Post by corky on Dec 31, 2015 13:18:14 GMT
Hi Fred , do you grow many heliamphora ? What treatment do you give them in winter
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Post by fredg on Dec 31, 2015 19:39:39 GMT
Corky, I don't really grow them anymore. There's only a couple of small neglected ones hanging around just surviving
Back in the day they got the regular greenhouse treatment, in trays alongside Cephalotus and Drosera regia but I sat them on upside down saucers so they didn't get wet feet all the time, plus top watering into the pitchers.
In winter they were brought into the utility room in a large propagator set down to a minimum around 10C. They got some natural light ( not a lot) and I supplemented it with a CFl bulb on timer.
They seemed to do fine with that treatment
With the two I have now I take them down into the cellar with the other tender plants ( Disa mainly) under LED growlights. They're not too happy with that but it's either that or they freeze their pitchers off in the greenhouses. Needless to say, neglected Heliamphora don't flower.
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Post by corky on Jan 1, 2016 13:03:45 GMT
Cheers for the explanation , I grow a couple in the house and was curious how you had gone about it
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Post by jeff on Jan 2, 2016 7:45:16 GMT
Bonjour for me a bract pitcher is the result of a growing problem (may be a temperature problem) I grow a lot of them in a growing room  see my grow list jeff |
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Post by fredg on Jan 2, 2016 13:27:16 GMT
Then I would submit that you are declaring a problem when there is none The plant is perfectly happy in so much that it is flowering and continuing in normal growth after that flowering. Bract pitchers on the inflorescence is an added interest.
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Post by jeff on Jan 3, 2016 7:29:06 GMT
Bonjour
yes the plant is happy no problem , but a bract with a pitcher is not natural , the bract alone yes .
jeff
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not here it isn't