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Post by pinglover on Mar 14, 2007 3:18:59 GMT
I grew this once then tired of it when I had difficulty stopping pets from brushing up against it. I gave it away. Too darn sticky. I'd like to try it again. I don't trade plants but would be interested in a source to purchase either Roridula dentata or R. gorgonias please.
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Post by mattopel on Mar 14, 2007 17:47:24 GMT
I grew this once then tired of it when I had difficulty stopping pets from brushing up against it. I gave it away. Too darn sticky. I'd like to try it again. I don't trade plants but would be interested in a source to purchase either Roridula dentata or R. gorgonias please. Both species of Roridula are available now and then from Silverhill Seeds in South Africa, and the ICPS Seed Bank. I've been donating my Roridula seed production to the ICPS for the past couple of years. Seed is not very expensive from either source, but you have to be quick and kinda lucky to aquire it. -Matt O. |
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Post by pinglover on Mar 16, 2007 3:36:21 GMT
Thank you.
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Post by bluesboy on May 8, 2007 2:25:45 GMT
Hi, In this Roridula forum there wasn't an option to start a new thread for some reason, so in order to post, I have to reply to this topic, which actually is o.k. because I'll respond to this post as well. Anyway, what I'm trying to address here is that I'm sure everyone is familiar with Barry Rice's new CP book from Timber Press. He makes a comment that is ambiguous regarding Roridula; he seems to imply that it has not been proven that Roridula can be propagated by cuttings. I only grow Roridula dentata, but can tell everyone from experience IT IS POSSIBLE, and quite easy to take cuttings, and have them grow out to be nice plants. Please see my picture below of cuttings, which I had a 75% success rate. There are many factors to do it well, but the first and foremost is I find they only root on green-wood cuttings; anything that has turned solid and brown will have trouble/not root. Also full full full sun is a must! However, to suggest even more that this species is rootable is that my 6 year old has a decumbent stem that rests on the soil in the pot; all along the bottom of the stem on the soil are roots; this is often indicative that a species, non CPs included, is able to be propagated via cuttings.  Next, please see my other photo of a plant that came originally from a cutting.  Last, to answer this post, I'll try to take some cuttings over the next months; when they look good, I could get one or two out to you. See ya all, bluesboy |
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Post by Clint on May 8, 2007 12:40:30 GMT
That's strange bluesboy. I just tried to make a new thread and it was fine.
Pm'd ya.
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Post by jrfxtreme on May 8, 2007 14:39:41 GMT
Cool! I'll have to give that a try when my plant gets bigger.
Do you fertilize your plants?
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Post by BarryRice on May 8, 2007 15:56:59 GMT
Hey Bluesboy,
Yeah, I was pretty ambiguous about vegetative propagation because Matt Opel, who wrote the Opus (opel?) on Roridula cultivation in CPN had pretty weak success with the method. Cool to hear that you're having more luck. Perhaps you've got a more amenable clone? I'd think that your growing conditions are similar to Matt's (in Connecticut).
Barry
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Post by marcel on May 8, 2007 18:15:34 GMT
The trouble with new threads is fixed, wrong setting  |
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Post by pinglover on May 12, 2007 5:51:04 GMT
Beautiful plants!
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Post by endodoc on May 16, 2007 13:00:05 GMT
Looking for a source of seed for Roridula, I check Silverhill's website and was unable to get the Roridula seed to show up for purchase, I'm not sure what I did wrong, any seed out there in cyberspace?? (does that term date me??)
regards
ed
ps bluesboy those plants are remarkable, great job, please share cultural info
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Post by marcel on May 16, 2007 16:06:58 GMT
it's only available for a short time from silverhill. Usually they are out of stock within days after harvest and then they remove it from the site till next harvest.
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