Post by wadave on Aug 20, 2007 14:03:40 GMT
If there was a cure for this obsession for CP's, would you take it?
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Spring has started a few weeks early this year and my CP are starting to grow again.
I'm out in the greenhouse at least three times a day watching excitedly as this years crop of sarra flowers are growing like rockets. Litterally they are growing an inch in a day!
Sarra and cobra seeds are madly germinating, old ceph traps are dying off and leaves are being produced, the shadowy outline of the next heliamphora leaves can be seen emerging from the inside folds of the last set of leaves when the sun is behind them.
My binata multifida has put out it's first seven point leaf, my pings are madly flowering (I've crossed a 'Superba' with my mesophytica so I'm keen to see if I've got seeds).
I keep checking my new rajah and hamata seedlings, smiling each time they put out a new little leaf and trap, some of them have caught something and they are only a few millimeters long. I can see a little black speck inside some of them, something else I wasn't expecting and has blown me away.
I'm like a little kid who just got a puppy but has grown up around dogs for years.
The excitement never stops when something is happening right before your eyes. Even if you've seen it before, it wasn't quite like this time.... the plants are bigger and the new traps are slightly different, the colours change as the traps change from lowers to intermediate, the rhyzome is bigger and stronger and the flowers more robust. A different species/ cross of seed has germinated so even though you've germinated hundres upon hundreds of sarras before you haven't grown "one of these before" so you're keen to see how this one turns out.
It's always something slightly different to keep the passion burning.
I just pray I don't start growing orchids! Though I do grow bonsai but that's another story.
So what's the verdict?
Would you take the cure?
Dave.
??Spring has started a few weeks early this year and my CP are starting to grow again.
I'm out in the greenhouse at least three times a day watching excitedly as this years crop of sarra flowers are growing like rockets. Litterally they are growing an inch in a day!
Sarra and cobra seeds are madly germinating, old ceph traps are dying off and leaves are being produced, the shadowy outline of the next heliamphora leaves can be seen emerging from the inside folds of the last set of leaves when the sun is behind them.
My binata multifida has put out it's first seven point leaf, my pings are madly flowering (I've crossed a 'Superba' with my mesophytica so I'm keen to see if I've got seeds).
I keep checking my new rajah and hamata seedlings, smiling each time they put out a new little leaf and trap, some of them have caught something and they are only a few millimeters long. I can see a little black speck inside some of them, something else I wasn't expecting and has blown me away.
I'm like a little kid who just got a puppy but has grown up around dogs for years.
The excitement never stops when something is happening right before your eyes. Even if you've seen it before, it wasn't quite like this time.... the plants are bigger and the new traps are slightly different, the colours change as the traps change from lowers to intermediate, the rhyzome is bigger and stronger and the flowers more robust. A different species/ cross of seed has germinated so even though you've germinated hundres upon hundreds of sarras before you haven't grown "one of these before" so you're keen to see how this one turns out.
It's always something slightly different to keep the passion burning.
I just pray I don't start growing orchids! Though I do grow bonsai but that's another story.
So what's the verdict?
Would you take the cure?
Dave.
