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Post by kellye8498 on Jul 13, 2014 19:42:10 GMT
  Ok guys. I have a quick question that I hope someone can answer for me! I'm pretty new to carnivorous plants...about two years into the hobby...and I am curious if anyone can tell me the names of these drosera. They we're hitchhikers in pots of other carnivorous plants I purchased so I'm curious to know what I accidentally got here  I really appreciate it! All I have managed to figure out from The Savage Garden is that the forked sews are a variety that will need a dormancy. Funny that I managed to get yet another plant that needs to go dormant lol. I'm hoping my new walkin green house will be warm enough in my zone 9 winter to allow my plants to go through their dormancy outside. Zone 9 is a low of 20-25° Fahrenheit. Could it keep them safe of do I need to bring them in for dormancy and use the fridge? Sorry, more questions than I originally realized I had, lol! |
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Post by hcarlton on Jul 13, 2014 19:55:44 GMT
The first plant is D. binata, likely subsp. binata, and a low of 20 F is not a problem for that species, if it is a temperate form. There are tropical ones as well.
The second plant, the leaves are a bit battered, but it's probably either a form of D. spatulata or D. tokaiensis, my bet would be on the latter. Again, depending on the form, that plant may or may not be able to take cold temperatures.
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Post by kellye8498 on Jul 13, 2014 20:26:09 GMT
Ok, I have three of the forked sundews in separate pots so I can see how one does outside this winter and bring the other two in for fridge dormancy. The other came along on a friends plant and she took it home to AZ with her but I took some leaf cuttings that I am hoping will root. I have three floating in RO water on a windowsill and three laying on sphagnum peat moss in a pot covered with plastic wrap for humidity. I really hope at least one grows roots so I can have one of my own. If not, I will just grab one next spring at California Carnivores when I have time to make a trip again. It was so pretty!
Is it odd that I'm so anal retentive slash OCD that I feel the need to have all of my plants have tags or be marked so I know exactly what they are?! LOL!
I got a walk in greenhouse yesterday on sale for 50% off and set it up to see if my sarracenia and nepenthes x Miranda might like it better in there but I have to take a couple of days readings on temp and humidity to see if it's in the right spot for healthy plants before I put them inside. I'm really getting excited lol.
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Post by kellye8498 on Jul 13, 2014 20:28:21 GMT
I might just keep the nepenthes inside on the windowsill where it's been since I got it and use the greenhouse for the sarracenia and sundews and fly traps since they are already outside plants anyway. Just need to make sure a greenhouse will be good for them before I go about moving them...
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Post by adelea on Jul 13, 2014 21:14:17 GMT
As Hcarlton said plant A is binata, it is a duel fork so it is most likely from Tasmania, generally the further north you go with binata the more branched they have (although not always as I have seen a duel fork form in NSW), but regardless the whole Binata complex are temperate and duel forms generally get pretty dam cold.
The easiest way to take a leaf cutting of a Binata is to put the clean cutting in water (preferably distilled), then when the plantlets are over 1cm place it in a substrate (peat or spag mix) and maintain a high humidity, then harden once they have 3-4 leaves.
from a single leaf I average 10-12 plantlets from this method.
Otherwise root cuttings from their thick roots are also very easy, I find to get seed you have to cross pollinate.
They also like to be wet, my plants in the bog garden are flooded in summer (1-2cm over soil), and in the wild they readily grow in 2-3cm of water in the wet season.
Can't say for sure on the rossete, but spathulata or a spathulata hybrid is first on my mind, also easy from leaf cuttings in water, but only expect 1, maybe 2 plantlets, but many are self fertile and seed are easy.
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Post by kellye8498 on Jul 13, 2014 21:39:18 GMT
I wish i had more of the leaves and i wish it had beenlarger. It was only about an inch and s half in diameter so im not entirely sure the cuttings will root but im in california and my friend was tsking them home to AZ so i got the cuttings i could while they were here. Even one or two would be great! I would be thrilled. I have three cuttings floating in RO water and three on the peat moss. Just of the spatulata, i didnt take cuttings of the forked dews because i already have three of them and they are all decent sized but will grow larger eventually. All i have left of the spatulata is the six cuttings. Think i should move the three from the peat to the water? One in the water sunk to the bottom so i dont know if that means itll die because its no longer floating or if its still able to root  |
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Post by adelea on Jul 14, 2014 2:01:41 GMT
Sinking is fine, my adelae and capensis leaves normally sink by the end of the first day.
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Post by kellye8498 on Jul 14, 2014 2:49:12 GMT
Ah, great! I was worried they weren't going to be able to grow if they sunk. How long does it usually take to see new growth? Im worried that it might have been too small for me to get anything to grow.
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I really appreciate it!
