coline
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Post by coline on Mar 16, 2014 3:30:16 GMT
I have a D. sessilifolia adult plant, only one, and it flowers continously, so I decided to detonate the bomb !! And spilled on purpose a full scape over nearby pots, so, now many plants have appeared, but much smaller than my adult one, may they trully be sessilifolia even so small? On the background is the adult plant
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Post by hcarlton on Mar 16, 2014 5:41:52 GMT
D. sessilifolia doesn't exactly get that big, and it should be apparent that if the seeds came from a plant you know is sessilifolia, it stands to reason the offspring are the same. And they have pink flowers, that's a good identifier.
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Post by coline on Mar 16, 2014 20:36:23 GMT
I think that since they have to grow in a competition against the moss that grows in all my pots, and also without any feeding to them they are that small, similar to D. intermedia.
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Post by Fernando Rivadavia on May 31, 2014 15:48:36 GMT
If anybody discovers how to make D.sessilifolia grow as big in cultivation as they do in the wild, they deserve a prize. I may personally have to kiss them too. But yes, in cultivation they tend to be smaller than D.burmannii, have pink flowers, and erect scapes.
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Post by hcarlton on Jun 1, 2014 5:20:51 GMT
How big do they get in the wild? Mine are pushing 1.5" across at least...
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Post by Not a Number on Jun 2, 2014 3:06:24 GMT
I've seen Ivan Snyder growing these to a fairly large size say between 1.5-2.0 inches in diameter.
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Post by hcarlton on Jun 2, 2014 5:40:42 GMT
I need to go measure mine... some odd issue with flower stalks in my greenhouse means they never expend energy on seeds, and so just stay large...
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Post by coline on Jun 21, 2014 3:31:11 GMT
Mine have got only about 1", or normally less, as the little ones on the picture, even less, and when they flower they give 1-2 seed pods!
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Post by Fernando Rivadavia on Jun 21, 2014 16:25:55 GMT
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Post by hcarlton on Jun 22, 2014 5:19:48 GMT
Some of mine are nearly that size, but the color.... there's no way I can match that....
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Post by coline on Jun 22, 2014 13:20:58 GMT
And the height, they somehow are really tall, not as the ones I have known here that almost look as a D. burmanii flat on the ground.
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Post by Dave Evans on Jun 23, 2014 23:50:38 GMT
If anybody discovers how to make D.sessilifolia grow as big in cultivation as they do in the wild, they deserve a prize. I may personally have to kiss them too. But yes, in cultivation they tend to be smaller than D.burmannii, have pink flowers, and erect scapes. It has to be a pH thing. They seem to occur on mostly mineral soils in the wild... [edit]by "thing" I mean "pH nutrient interaction".
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Post by coline on Jun 24, 2014 1:47:22 GMT
I have some mineral soil from where P. crenatiloba grows, I could try with it
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Post by Fernando Rivadavia on Jul 19, 2014 4:00:23 GMT
I don't think that's it, but good luck!
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Post by joy on Aug 8, 2014 13:52:26 GMT
Mine doesn't even color up like my other plants, it keeps "alba" and small in size (even when flowering) flowers come out straight up and pink flowers on it. Got my seed from Ignace and he was 100% sure it's D.sessilifolia when I told him they looked a lot like burmannii
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