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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2007 4:48:19 GMT
lol i wish i was able to keep a venus fly trap long enough for it to flower....lol i always seem to accidently dry the plants out but i just recently obtained a huge 100 gallon tank that im filling with an inch of water and putting my remaining cps in there to see if i might be able to finally keep some alive.
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Post by Clint on Jul 8, 2007 15:34:26 GMT
I hope you aren't wanting to grow Dionaea and other temperates in that terrarium! They are better suited to outside. You should use that gargantuan aquarium for Nepenthes, sans the inch of water.
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Post by wadave on Aug 19, 2007 13:59:19 GMT
I selfed some VFT's in my collection last year, never done so before as I was always led to believe they would be sapped of too much strength.
I collected about 20 seeds and placed them on top of a fresh pot of peat/perlite and about 5 germintated around a month later.
Two died, I dropped one whilst moving it from a large piece of perlite. I was using a small stick to move it as it was so small and it kind of flicked out of the pot. I couldn't find it again after that.
I'm like a little kid when I'm trying new things with my CP...... I should learn to just leave them alone!!!!
But the last two are growing nicely.
I am interested to see how similar in characteristics it is to its parent. I've now also seen that alowing them to flower and set seed doesn't kill them and now feel happy enough to experiment freely with pollinating/ crossing them to see what I get.
Dave.
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Post by elgecko on Sept 1, 2007 1:48:53 GMT
I have selfed VFTs and gotten viable seed. I have also been crossing different VFTs. Here is some VFT's that are a little over a year old now. They were all planted at the same time and you can see how some of the plants are more vigorous then others. You can also see some have nicer trap color as well. Next year I will be planting them in individual pots.
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Post by mmlr38 on Sept 1, 2007 21:42:48 GMT
For those of you experienced in growing VFTs from seed, do you usually allow them to grow continuously for the first year of their lives or do you let them enter dormancy?
I read somewhere that if you allow them to grow continuously for a full year and a half (skipping the first dormancy of their little lives) that they will grow quicker.
Is this true?
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Post by Aidan on Sept 1, 2007 22:27:31 GMT
If you have the facility to grow under lights for the winter, seedlings may skip the first dormancy without problem.
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Post by jrfxtreme on Sept 2, 2007 0:19:35 GMT
That flytrap looks great! Now I know where to shop for potential cultivars.. For me, self pollination is possible in flytraps. I even managed to have some all red seedlings pop up from a self pollination of typical flytraps.
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