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Post by thwyman on Mar 23, 2007 13:14:16 GMT
The gig is about 30cm tall. No photos of the whole thing but I can try for some over the weekend.
No dropper formation from it as yet but rumor has it that that only happens under really wet conditions and mine don't really qualify as that.
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Post by Sean Spence on Mar 23, 2007 13:19:16 GMT
No dropper formation from it as yet but rumor has it that that only happens under really wet conditions and mine don't really qualify as that. Not necessarily. I was the beneficiary of a number of dropper tubers last year. The parent plant, grown by a friend, was one close to a metre in height. It was grown in relatively low humidity and produced droppers from many of the leaf axils. I'm wondering if the propensity to produce droppers increases as the plant gets larger and more mature......
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Post by matti on Mar 23, 2007 13:21:42 GMT
Good theory Sean, I asked Greg some time last year why they did it (gigantea,radicans) and he said it was high humidity... my plant did not produce any last year so I really don't know.
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Post by thwyman on Mar 23, 2007 13:30:15 GMT
Not necessarily. I was the beneficiary of a number of dropper tubers last year. The parent plant, grown by a friend, was one close to a metre in height. It was grown in relatively low humidity and produced droppers from many of the leaf axils. I'm wondering if the propensity to produce droppers increases as the plant gets larger and more mature...... Hmmm.. MAybe I ought not to put much weight on the rumors then. I will watch what it does this year, maybe I'll get lucky but I doubt it. Sean, Would you assume that the maturity situation would be the case will others like intricata or aff. moorei? My aff. moorei is about to flower so I know it is at least mature enough for that but again I do not see any sign of droppers...
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Post by Sean Spence on Mar 23, 2007 13:44:24 GMT
I won't say that high humidity isn't the most important factor in the ability of [D. gigantea to produce droppers, as it may well be. It's just that in this particular instance, high humidity wasn't a prerequisite.
I've never had any of my D. intricata produce any droppers yet and the plants are all mature. I've only received D. aff. moorei this season so it shall be interesting to see how that one goes.
Interestingly, the same friend the has the mature D. gigantea that produced the droppers also grows D. intricata and his plants produced a heap of droppers last season. His plants were not staked as they normally would be, but were allowed to trail along the substrate. In this case I guess that the plant would have experienced higher humidity as it literally touched the wet ground.
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Post by thwyman on Mar 23, 2007 13:52:39 GMT
Maybe I ougth to unsteak my aff. morrei... Though how I am going to contain 20cm of plant on a surface of 5cm x 5cm I do not know...
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Post by Sean Spence on Mar 23, 2007 14:08:56 GMT
I'm sure its neighbours won't mind too much. I was a little lazy last year and only staked a few of my climibing species. The result was scramblimg stems from one pot draped over several other pots. I won't do it this season though as the flowers didn't seem to form as well as they have in the past. BTW, just noticing the first of my plants breaking the surface. D. macrantha ssp. planchonii is up and going as well as a number of forms of D. whittakerii. More importantly though, a number of my winter growing South Africans are also up and about.
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Post by thwyman on Mar 23, 2007 14:38:51 GMT
While I am sure the neighbor plants would not mind being drapped on I would mind having to chase down any droppers that may form. And if I should miss one then I'd really be in a pickle.
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Post by Dave Evans on Mar 29, 2007 2:59:07 GMT
Dear Matti, It is extreme high humidity which will cause them to grow dropper stolons from the leaves. You can take sections of stem with leaves attached and lay them on/in water about 2 mm deep, in 100% humidity and you will get some dropper stolons to form, up to four per leaf, some leaves produce none. In about four or five weeks you can pot them. But you probably will not see the plants until the next fall/winter when they break dormancy again. Good theory Sean, I asked Greg some time last year why they did it (gigantea,radicans) and he said it was high humidity... my plant did not produce any last year so I really don't know.
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Post by matti on Mar 29, 2007 3:37:07 GMT
Dear Matti, It is extreme high humidity which will cause them to grow dropper stolons from the leaves. You can take sections of stem with leaves attached and lay them on/in water about 2 mm deep, in 100% humidity and you will get some dropper stolons to form, up to four per leaf, some leaves produce none. In about four or five weeks you can pot them. But you probably will not see the plants until the next fall/winter when they break dormancy again. Good theory Sean, I asked Greg some time last year why they did it (gigantea,radicans) and he said it was high humidity... my plant did not produce any last year so I really don't know. Thanks for that Dave, will give it ago this year.
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Post by thwyman on Mar 29, 2007 14:03:45 GMT
Here are the pics of my gigantea And from the look of it I am going to have to repot again next season
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Post by matti on Mar 29, 2007 15:13:51 GMT
Thats a really nice plant Travis, I hope mine looks that good this year, I say it is about 5-10 years old rite?.
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Post by thwyman on Mar 29, 2007 15:36:36 GMT
Thanks Matti,
Plant is probably 4 years. I got it as a 2-3mm sized tuber from BestCP the year before I moved out of my apartment and that'd be 3 years ago IIRC.
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Post by Sean Spence on Mar 30, 2007 7:56:47 GMT
Nice plants Travis. How many plants in that pot? The clump in the front right corner looks strange. Almost like a bunch of branches stuck in the substrate. A shot of my Drosera gigantea ssp. geniculata "red form" in the middle of summer!
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Post by matti on Mar 30, 2007 9:59:18 GMT
Thats a nice looking plant Sean, another one I have been trying to get my paws on. ;D anyways this is a picture of a Drosera auriculata from my area, they do get to a meter tall but this is the most common size. It has been pressed and dryed, sorry about the quality I wanted to scan it but to much hastle to re-install it.
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