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Post by patrickn on Apr 24, 2010 6:33:09 GMT
It is in spring weather (warm and humid) in my city. However, none of my pingicula collection (>20 species of Mexican pings) gets flower buds. Most of them are having new summer carnivorous leaves (4-5 leaves). They seem growing, but no flower Any expert here can share me the tricks to make them flowering? Thank you in advance.
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Post by patrickn on Apr 24, 2010 6:36:03 GMT
BTW, I am growing them indoor with 12 h light. They are generally small (2-3 cm in diameter). They don't flower, is it because they are small??
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Post by ICPS-bob on Apr 24, 2010 14:46:25 GMT
Usually the key to getting those plants to bloom is to give them a cool winter dormant period. I grow all of my Mexican Pings in an unheated greenhouse where on the Pacific coast of Northern California winter temperatures only get to the low 30F. My plants start blooming in March and continue all summer. Grown in a terrarium under constant conditions many of these plants grow well but never bloom.
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Post by patrickn on May 4, 2010 15:57:16 GMT
Thanks for your sharing.
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Post by Joseph Clemens on Nov 14, 2010 0:35:17 GMT
As ICPS-bob has said, cool nights, even down to 40F or sometimes even lower (though some can tolerate freezing or below, I'd avoid freezing, it doesn't seem essential to get them that cold).
For several years I had been growing a nice plant, a Mexican species, but I was not positive of its identity, I just labeled it as Pinguicula (Red1), since its leaves were almost always a bright shade of red. In hopes of having it reveal its identity by flower, which it had never done for me, yet. I distributed several small propagations of this plant to several different growers. ICPS-bob was the first grower to have my unidentified Pinguicula (Red1) to flower and reveal itself to be a clone of Pinguicula laueana. He demonstrated how cooler nights were the most critical factor to get this species to bloom. Afterwards I set my grow room so that outside cool air would blow in and cool everything off every night during my Winters. Since I began providing these cooler Winters, nearly every Mexican Pinguicula plant mature enough to flower, regularly flower.
Thank you ICPS-bob.
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Post by Radek Kastner on Nov 21, 2010 20:16:12 GMT
It depends... 2-3 cm in diameter when they are in summer rosettes it seems to me still like a young plant. Pings need to be mostly approx. 3 years (+ -) old to flower, but...
It is really good to grow Mex pings outside or in greenhouse, if the condition are appropriate. Next it depends on species... Lower night temperature help significantly Some of MexPings need to have dry period, some of them really low/cold environment during winter - they are mountains plants. Some of species flower from winter rosettes only...
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