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Post by nimbulan on Oct 1, 2019 15:26:58 GMT
Well I haven't been around for a while and thought I'd jump in with an update here. On advice from a friend I gave my Roridula plants some osmocote this year, 12 pellets spread throughout the 10" pots. This resulted in a huge burst of growth from the dentata and it has since surpassed the height of my R. gorgonias, and now has approximately 30 growth points. Hoping for flowers next year. The R. gorgonias did not really show a change in growth rate, but I had a far better seed set than last year.  Roridula gorgonias and dentata by Nimbulan, on Flickr |
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Post by corky on Oct 2, 2019 19:02:04 GMT
Excellent plant, I have no more plants surviving, shame I had one get to a pretty good size but I think it must of got the fungal disease and went downhill fast
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Post by nimbulan on Oct 3, 2019 15:00:25 GMT
Excellent plant, I have no more plants surviving, shame I had one get to a pretty good size but I think it must of got the fungal disease and went downhill fast Yeah R. dentata gets fungal infections very easily. With the gorgonias I can leave it out in the rain for a couple days without any problems generally, but I've lost a growth point on the dentata after just 24 hours of exposure. I also had one growth point in the middle of the plant get consumed and spread to the stem (appeared to be some sort of damp-off fungus) but luckily the plant was large enough to overcome the pathogen. |
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Post by nimbulan on Mar 6, 2020 1:11:57 GMT
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Post by corky on Mar 6, 2020 13:35:04 GMT
Excellent work, hope you get seed
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Post by nimbulan on Mar 6, 2020 15:28:29 GMT
Excellent work, hope you get seed I'm working on it. The flower wouldn't give me any pollen yesterday, though I think that's normal. If I can get some to release today, I should be golden. Unfortunately each flower will only produce 3 seeds and I only have two flowers so I'll be pretty limited this time around. |
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Post by nimbulan on Oct 1, 2021 3:21:37 GMT
It's been quite a while but I thought I might provide an update. I did manage to produce a couple seeds last year and sowed them in winter but was unable to germinate any like I had before. I stuck the pot outside and left it in a water tray over summer. Then just 2 weeks ago I found that one seed had germinated (nothing but husks left of the others.) I brought it inside and it's been making the usual slow progress since.
This year I got 7 flowers if I remember correctly. Most of them didn't set seed though despite attempted pollination - I think the cold temperatures interfere with flower function (happens to my tuberous sundews too.) I have a few more seeds to play with though and I think I'll experiment with GA3 treatment for germination.
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Post by corky on Oct 1, 2021 16:04:06 GMT
Thanks for the update ,you've done well to keep your plants going and flowering so long ,one day maybe I'll try again ,keep me updated if you can
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Post by nimbulan on Oct 3, 2021 4:16:50 GMT
Thanks! I've actually found it quite easy to keep the plant going once I got it into its final pot. Much easier to keep alive long term than Drosophyllum. I do lose growth points occasionally to fungal attack but the plant produces so many it doesn't really matter. Once the stem turns woody it seems to be pretty much impervious to infections spreading from growth points. I do move the plant under cover for extended rainfall to prevent any problems, though. Unfortunately due to my fertilizer experiments the plant is very tall now and is becoming an issue figuring out what to do with it during winter. I already had to set up a secondary lamp to light the top of it last winter.
Anyway hopefully I'll be able to produce more than a handful of seeds this year, and be able to nail down a reliable germination method with the few seeds I have on hand. Now if only Pameridea were available in the US...
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not here it isn't
