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Post by corky on Apr 4, 2020 9:52:47 GMT
Of course, I wasn't even thinking of hardy from the heat ,I'm sure I'll be updating this thread soon ,things are happening
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Post by corky on May 7, 2020 16:57:51 GMT
The large tray of darlingtonia is in full bloom ,hopefully get better pitchers this year ,some kind of bug chewed and mangled them last season while they were growing  |
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Post by corky on May 20, 2020 9:35:15 GMT
  slightly better pics I think ,thirty flowers this year ,slugs felled a couple |
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Post by dvg on May 20, 2020 14:39:35 GMT
Wow! That's a lot of Darlingtonia flowers.
Do you try to collect the seed later?
dvg
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Post by corky on May 20, 2020 19:59:38 GMT
I have a fair few seedlings already growing from this tray (selfed) I presume it's all the same plant as it seemed to be when it first arrived in a small pot ,so any seeds will go to waste unless I have a strange impulse to plant a few up, which has been known to happen  |
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Post by corky on Aug 31, 2020 12:37:27 GMT
An update on the seed grown plant shown earlier in the thread, from a selfed plant and about 5 years old . Having another flush of pitchers at the moment  this is the plant and picture earlier in the thread taken April 3rd  |
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Post by dvg on Aug 31, 2020 16:45:17 GMT
Thanks for sharing pics of your seed grown Darlings Corky.
I have some seed to sow, so it's great to have a reference point for the five year mark with these plants.
dvg
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Post by corky on Aug 31, 2020 19:35:50 GMT
Thanks DVG, I don't know if this is what to expect from a plant of this age, Fred would maybe have a better idea ,I do have plants from the same sowing still in the four inch pot they were sown in that have been neglected and they're tiny ,I should take a pic if I remember so you have an idea of how slow they can grow:)
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Post by fredg on Aug 31, 2020 22:34:45 GMT
You're doing fine there corky. It depends on how much mollycoddling you're willing to give them as with most plants. I too have a couple of quarter trays that have never been pricked out. They're fighting each other now so I suppose I'll have to do something with them. If only I had somewhere to put them if I re-pot.  I already have a group to re-pot tomorrow and I'm hoping they refill the space they already have allocated. They say gardens grow but mine's been the same size for the last 30 odd years that I've been here. |
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Post by corky on Feb 27, 2021 15:54:17 GMT
 my sphagnum has overgrown my seedlings , what to do? Would peoples advice be to carefully replant them on the surface or do you think they will be fine with the new seasons growth ? |
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Post by fredg on Feb 27, 2021 18:32:56 GMT
I'd gently press down the sphagnum around the seedlings and tidy it up. Much better than uprooting the seedlings.
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Post by corky on Feb 28, 2021 10:43:53 GMT
That's the kind of advice i like ,the kind that involves less effort  |
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Post by corky on Mar 29, 2021 16:27:37 GMT
Well there won't be any mass blooming from my old large tray of plants this year ,I brutally hacked away at it as it was too out of hand for my liking. It was not performing great as looks of pitchers go and the amount of plant in the tray was crazy , I filled a bin bag of plants and still kept around four good size plants to keep growing in the tray ,It wasn't the nicest looking clone so to the green bin with the unwanted , am going to put my efforts and more importantly space into my seed grown plants and hope to get some better colour clones as the large tray wasn't the best
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Post by corky on May 31, 2021 11:06:11 GMT
Not all doom and gloom for my darlingtonia this year, first time I've grown a plant from seed to flowering  at the start of the year the plant was transplanted into a large tray of sphagnum along with a purpurea which was split up  I'll have to see how it goes ,a couple of bits of purpurea didn't make it but I was barbaric with my transplanting technique |
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Post by corky on Jun 22, 2021 16:59:07 GMT
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my largest seed grown plant |
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