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Post by sykosarah on Jan 29, 2014 6:11:36 GMT
My one pitcher plant, which shows some characteristics of purpurea, but otherwise species unknown My second pitcher plant, which, despite having the same growing environment and germinating on the same day as its sibling above, grows notably more slowly. It is hard to tell from the picture, but this plant's newest pitcher has a slight reddish tint to its pigmentation. It's pitcher also has remained vertical, unlike the top plant, where you see the oldest pitcher lying horizontal.
of course, it is hard to say as young of plants as they are, but do you guys think they might be different species? For those who don't know, the promotional seed packet these came in was mislabeled, so I have no idea what species they are, or even if they are the same. my only clues were that, at the time, the supplier only had 3 kinds of sarracenia seeds for sale: purpurea, alata, and flava.
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Post by sykosarah on Jan 29, 2014 6:12:58 GMT
Besides that, I would like this to be where we post pictures of very young plants, with their species if possible. That way if anyone else has a similar situation, this can be a place of reference. Once these two are old enough, I will edit for proper species label.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 3, 2014 19:12:44 GMT
Update, top plant identified as purpurea var purpurea (northern purple pitcher plant).
Lower plant ID still unknown.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 4:47:13 GMT
Update lower plant, considering how much slower of a grower it is compared to the purpurea var purpurea despite growing in the same conditions, is likely to be alata rather than flava. I have heard that flava varieties grow fairly quickly, and definitely faster than purpurea, while I have also heard that alata varieties grow fairly slow.
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Post by tanukimo on Feb 10, 2014 6:22:57 GMT
Do you have any photos of the Drosera madagascariensis? Does it already have a stem? And do you use pure peat moss for all your CPs? No seeds have ever germinated for me before, so congratulations!
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 6:56:13 GMT
It has a stem, yes, and I tried to take pictures but they were too blurry to see the dew. It currently has 3 carnivorous leaves and is about a centimeter tall at its tallest it's my little trooper. Almost feeding size!
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 6:57:52 GMT
I use pure peat moss for all of my CPs. Just gotta wash it really good. Unfortunately, I forgot to wash my drosera seeds themselves and ended up with some nasty visitors, but I have since repotted them in new media and so far no return visits.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 6:59:12 GMT
Sand is hard to clean and it is hard to get the right kind, and living sphagnum is super expensive. To be fair, there is some living sphagnum with my Venus flytrap because it came potted in it when my grandmother bought it for me as a gift.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 7:10:36 GMT
orry, this is the best I could do. Kinda looks like grass right now, but I can see it clearly in person that it does have some dew. Drosera Madagascariensis
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 7:13:46 GMT
My dozens of capensis red sprouts are so small right now that I can't even take a picture of them. Same goes for spatulata and the pygmy drosera. Well, now that I think about it, there is one particularly vigorous spatulata that might be big enough, but the picture wouldn't be good.
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Post by tanukimo on Feb 10, 2014 8:01:37 GMT
It looks so different from what I was expecting. I would have guessed that it was filiformis or something. Very interesting.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 13:07:50 GMT
Well, it is still very young. And madagascariensis does resemble filiformis a little bit. In fact, when I looked them up online even adult plants bore a resemblance. You could tell them apart, yes, but the difference wasn't that drastic.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 13:09:12 GMT
But I know that isn't what it is, because the source I bought it from was sold out of filiformis and most other sizable drosera seeds.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 10, 2014 13:11:04 GMT
For the record, all of my seeds were sown after Christmas, and most took a couple of weeks to germinate. None of my sprouts are more than about a month old. So most haven't developed distinguishing features yet.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 12, 2014 18:59:46 GMT
Ugh, I feel like a moron, that madagascariensis was actually grass, I checked its root system and it was too developed to be a drosera.
At least my spatulata and capensis red sprouts are doing good. Got some blood worms, gonna see if they get big enough to feed soon, they all have nice carnivorous leaves and dew. Too bad I don't have a good enough camera to get a picture of them.
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