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Post by fredg on Aug 19, 2015 17:27:22 GMT
I've seen the question posed a few times regarding sowing Darlingtonia on live sphagnum. Well I didn't actually sow the seed in it but I did prick out very young plants and drop them on the sphagnum. Not that much different to sowing the seed.They're coping well.  |
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Post by fredg on Sept 5, 2015 16:35:59 GMT
Two of the small baskets I'm using in with the solar water pumps developed a problem in the Sphagnum, which was slowly spreading. I have had to remove this, hopefully I've caught the extremities of the outbreak. However, I did remove all the Darlingtonia seedlings from these. Here's a sample  All of these seedlings were out of sight and overgrown in the Sphagnum but appear to be quite happy. Slightly etiolated perhaps but they look quite healthy. I have no doubt they would have continued to prosper if the Sphagnum had. I suppose I'll have to replant these in peat as they may have the remnants of whatever upset the moss. There are plenty more little Spagnum baskets with seedlings in  |
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Post by fredg on Sept 6, 2015 12:09:47 GMT
The seedlings I removed have now been replanted in peat to avoid possible contamination of fresh Sphagnum moss.  This one of the other baskets with uncontaminated Sphagnum. Yes there are Darlingtonia seedlings in there  A small section of some of the sibblings of the ones in Sphagnum that are as sown (thickly)  |
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Post by fredg on Oct 5, 2015 15:45:27 GMT
As a footnote to this. The problem I had with the Sphagnum in these trays emanated from a central spot and slowly moved outwards. The Sphagnum turned a greyish/beigy green and was very slimey to touch. I removed the seedlings from the main infected trays and disposed of the sphagnum. not really delving into the infected moss. However later on a tray that had been up against these two trays and had the same problem on one edge I carefully teased the sphagnum out to find a mass of small slug/snail eggs. No adults just eggs. Needless to say the birds had a feed. These were not eggs from the larger slugs I've had around for years, the Limax and latterly Arion.
I'm sure I can control the problem by physically removing eggs etc. The rest of the trays are not under threat. The thing I don't want to do is resort to spraying with Nematodes as they would be indescriminate, the same applies to pellets.
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Post by fredg on Nov 16, 2015 15:13:27 GMT
An update on the Darlingtonia seedlings in live Sphagnum I posted on August 19th. The same plants as at November 16th.  |
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Post by osprey on Nov 16, 2015 16:22:05 GMT
Looking healthy, Fred
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Post by fredg on May 22, 2016 9:34:44 GMT
An early 2016 update on the tray of seedlings shown above. There's definite growth there  |
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Post by fredg on Jul 26, 2016 10:54:40 GMT
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Post by jamiev on Jul 31, 2016 12:27:46 GMT
Fred,
have you fed them at all, or are they left to themselves? I suspect a foliar feed may accelerate their growth, but the sphagnum would most probably suffer.
Jamie
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Post by fredg on Jul 31, 2016 13:18:11 GMT
They're left to fend for themselves Jamie. In a natural situation no-one goes around foliar-feeding the carnivorous plants. As can be seen in this instance it's also totally unnecessary.
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not here it isn't