Pullings

[unstuckintime]

Aloha!

So, i decided to try my hand at Dionaea pullings this fall, more or less to prove that i could. The pullings i took were the healthiest leaves from some of the healthiest looking plants. I placed them into long fibered sphagnum in my terrarium. They were kept nice and warm, getting just as much light and being kept just as wet as everyone else in there. I thought i was doing well, except the leaves just turned yellow, with black behind it, and i'm pretty sure they're goners.
I read a bunch of articles on the topic before i started, and thought i did it everything by the book, but i guess not. Perhaps i didn't get enough of the rhizome when i did the pulling? Perhaps it was the wrong time of year to take pullings? Does anyone use rooting hormone? Any thoughts would be really helpful, since I really would like to try this again if i get the chance, get my technique down, that sort of thing.


Thanks!
CJ

[ICPS-bob]

I usually do mine in early spring just as the plants emerge from dormancy when I am dividing and repotting. I simply put the pullings in peat with a surface layer of live sphagnum. I give them bright light, moist but not too wet, and no cover. I don't think they need high humidity. I think good air circulation reduces rot. I have never used a rooting hormone.

Others may do things differently, but this is what works for me.

[unstuckintime]

Thanks for that! Yeah, doing them in spring as they resume growth makes a lot of sense, instead of now, in the fall, when they're slowing down growth.

[mmlr38]

I do mine any time I'm doing a repot. I usually repot in the spring, though I've had success with pullings at any time of the year.

I think your problem may have been the terrarium. Seems like without good air circulation, the pulling would rot faster than it would be able to strike.