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Post by fredg on Apr 11, 2016 11:05:17 GMT
This species arrived in my greenhouses rather sneakily. The culprit shall remain nameless ( so you're safe corky). They've settled in pretty well and are looking good. The medium is a 50/50 peat/granite grit.  |
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Post by corky on Apr 15, 2016 9:46:01 GMT
Looking nice and dewy , I think your going to like this species , I will add a couple of pics of my plants later if you don't mind
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Post by corky on Apr 16, 2016 10:09:42 GMT
These are my largest plants, all from root cuttings of the largest plant in the pot. I did flower the large plant and they produced viable seeds , I used a paint brush to help out .
in a five inch pot , so largest is best part of three inch diameter. You can see newer leaves are turning red with spring sun, in winter leaves show no red and are larger under my conditions   |
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Post by fredg on Apr 16, 2016 10:11:53 GMT
What size pots are you using for them corky? Edit:edit: Oooops I see now they're in 5" pots. ( you edit and I'll follow  ) Edt; Edit; I see the max size is listed at approx 2.8" |
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Post by corky on Apr 16, 2016 10:19:34 GMT
Just checked and was editing the size:-) those are in a five inch square pot thats five inch deep, I took this pic last year when I repotted , it was growing in a length of gutter down pipe , long roots 
and flower pics 
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Post by fredg on Apr 16, 2016 10:43:31 GMT
I can see I'll have to get them in long toms. The ones I use now are 10 cm square and 17 cm deep
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Post by fredg on Apr 17, 2016 9:21:14 GMT
A further photo just because the plants are looking well after a frosty night.  |
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Post by fredg on May 28, 2016 20:31:00 GMT
I have this uploaded so I'll use it   |
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Post by fredg on Jun 23, 2017 10:27:46 GMT
They're now flowering nicely. Not yet in long toms as they're short of headroom.  |
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Post by corky on Jun 23, 2017 12:29:37 GMT
nice one Fred, mine only flowered the one year and none for the last two, I take it they were ok in the winter?
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Post by fredg on Jun 23, 2017 17:59:11 GMT
No problem corky. They've looked fresh the whole time.
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Post by corky on Jun 23, 2017 18:16:42 GMT
I grew mine in the house either under lights or on a windowsill during winter as I feared death from freezing, but looks like they need cold temps to flower, when grown under lights I adjusted photoperiod to 10 hours. What was the minimum temperature? and would you say they actively grew as they're supposed to be winter growers.
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Post by fredg on Jun 25, 2017 8:43:08 GMT
Minimum temp would be the ambient, whatever that was corky, I don't have a max/min in that greenhouse. They're certainly bigger than they were last autumn.
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Post by corky on Jun 25, 2017 9:23:38 GMT
Fairly stupid question on my behalf, but must have been -5c , I'm definitely going to leave a pot outside next winter, hope to get some flowers and will also help with my space issues inside
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Post by corky on Aug 12, 2017 11:08:03 GMT
These are from root cuttings taken in 2015 when I repotted the larger plants shown in this thread, the larger plants look a bit scruffy now and I might behead them next year so they can regrow from the roots  they don't grow in sphagnum , pot just placed on a sphagnum tray for the pic |
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