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Post by matti on Mar 17, 2007 10:49:59 GMT
Ok, so who grows what? I thought it would be cool to have a thread devoted to photos of these species to make them easy to find for newbs. Sorry but myn are all dormant at the moment. Anyway here is last seasons crop. Drosera stononifera subsp.porrecta. flower of same plant Drosera tubaestylis Drosera menziesii subsp.menziesii flowers (sorry for the bad quality, they wern't easy to take a pic of.) Drosera menziesii subsp.menziesii plants Drosera menziesii subsp.menziesii from different angel.
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Post by glider14 on Mar 20, 2007 22:34:27 GMT
nice plants Matti! my D. menzesii died on me a few days after i got it. it was rather depressing. now i got this! it's from seed given to me by the member(don't know if he's on here... he's on Terraforums though) philcula. its D. peltata. i was surprised when it popped up because the seed was sown in June(summer for us in the northern hemisphere) it just randomly popped up one day because i reused the soil it was on after i gave up on them. i found another one just the other day Enjoy, Alex
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Post by matti on Mar 21, 2007 0:57:12 GMT
nice plants Matti! my D. menzesii died on me a few days after i got it. it was rather depressing. now i got this! it's from seed given to me by the member(don't know if he's on here... he's on Terraforums though) philcula. its D. peltata. i was surprised when it popped up because the seed was sown in June(summer for us in the northern hemisphere) it just randomly popped up one day because i reused the soil it was on after i gave up on them. i found another one just the other day Enjoy, Alex Yeah, nice. Drosera auriculata is pretty common up this way, they grow like weeds in some places, I first located this species in january 2005, they seem to be opotunist plants growing when ever it is wet, they grow anywere from 20cm tall to 1 meter and go a very deep red, like some of the australian spatulata you see pictures of. I have also found this species growing on Bribie island in Queensland last year along with Drosera binata var.multifida. I am going back in April to search for Utricularia biloba. Keep the peltata wet and cool with good light and don't dig it up untill it dies down fully or you could break the underground stolon. I duno how you could kill menziesii, it was the first species I ever had success with (back in 2002), I origoanlly recived two tubers and at last count have nearly 50 (2007). Drosera auriculata from Evans Head in northern New south wales. Drosera auriculata on bribie island, don't take any notice of the pure sand, there is peat underneath that top layer.
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Post by glider14 on Mar 21, 2007 11:49:13 GMT
the D. menziesii i got as a tuber just starting to sprout. i put it in a mixture of 3:1.5(about) sand and peat. when i checked it the tuber had rotted... in fact.... the mix the peltata is in now is what the tuber was in. i just re used the pot Alex
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Post by matti on Mar 21, 2007 13:25:26 GMT
When I first started out I used a pure peat mix, now I use 1:1 peat/sand. I used to find with the pure peat that when kept to dry it could dry the tuber out and desecate it, menziesii grows on granite outcrops and with Utricularia menziesii from what I understand.
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Post by thwyman on Mar 22, 2007 12:37:19 GMT
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Post by Pingman on Mar 22, 2007 13:51:18 GMT
Nice D. ramellosa! Thanks for the great pics. Peter.
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Post by matti on Mar 22, 2007 13:55:05 GMT
Welcome to the forums Pyro-Travis. Hows it going? long time no speak. They are very nice plants, what are your conditions like, did you germinate them from seed?. For Glider, Drosera auriculata- pic taken the otherday. Drosera striticaulis- flower an easy grower- Greg Bourke Drosera gigantea subsp.gigantea "Harvey Bay" -Greg Bourke, this plant was really hard to photograph with a webcam, the top of the plant's asparagas shoot got eaten by a slug so thats why it has so many crazy branches instead of growing like a small tree.
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Post by BarryRice on Mar 22, 2007 15:45:24 GMT
Mattie,
A question about your D. auriculata photograph of the plant growing in pure white sand. I often see tuberous sundew photos showing this. How deep is the sand, and is there a layer of peaty soil beneath? You suggest this is the case in your post.
Barry
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Post by thwyman on Mar 22, 2007 17:44:10 GMT
Hello Matti
Life is well thanks.
Conditions:
Temps for my tuberous are basically Atlanta weather except kept from freezing in winter.
I grow in my sunroom under a 1000W HID bulb though there is some supplimental sunlight.
Water is by shallow tray which I allow to go dry for a day or three between waterings.
Media is 2/1/1 sand/LFS/pine bark mulch (though I am thinking of switching it up here next season)
As far as the origin of my plants, some are seed grown (the macrantha and ramellosa for example), others were aquired as tubers (like the stolonifera which came from BestCP). I also have a number that came from TC though I none of those are pictured here.
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Post by matti on Mar 23, 2007 2:07:21 GMT
Mattie, A question about your D. auriculata photograph of the plant growing in pure white sand. I often see tuberous sundew photos showing this. How deep is the sand, and is there a layer of peaty soil beneath? You suggest this is the case in your post. Barry No e's in my name Barry . That picture of the auriculata was taken in a dryer area, my guess is that the dry sand is blown around by the wind and builds up on the soil surface, its only shallow about a 10mm at the most then you hit a area of around 50:50 sand/peat. I guess the peat is derived from the local plants rather than sphagnum moss, in wetter area's you do not seem to get that top layer of sand and it becomes less common, take the picture below for example was taken near a little man made lagoon, Utricularia lateriflora grow just meters away. there is an auriculata in there but the picture is out of focus. Matti.
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Post by thwyman on Mar 23, 2007 11:41:38 GMT
Just an additon to show an interesting thing my gigantea did. The first stem put out by one of my plants got broken and on a whim I just stuck it in the media. Last night I noticed this: No dropper yet so don't know if it'll pull through
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Post by matti on Mar 23, 2007 11:44:18 GMT
Nice, my Gigantea has just poped its head up for a look. What happened to the mother plant, did it re-shoot?.
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Post by thwyman on Mar 23, 2007 11:49:47 GMT
Yes the mother plant put up another shoot. In fact you can see it in the background of my last stolonifera shot.
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Post by matti on Mar 23, 2007 11:54:05 GMT
ok, looks pretty big. do you have a pic of it aswell? do you ever get the dropper tubers?.
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