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Post by kwende on Jul 19, 2012 1:09:25 GMT
Greetings, This summer is my first shot at growing a Ping (I've got a lot of experience with Neps and Sundews, but not so much elsewhere). Originally I had it about 5 inches below 4 T-8 lights with the rest of my sundews and, it's my guess at least (after doing a lot more research on them) I had this primuliflora too close to the light. Is what I'm seeing here burnt leaves? Will the plant "ping" back (pun intended)? I get that leaves will die and new ones will arrive; the thing is, though, is about four of these leaves turned brown pretty quickly after adjusting the placement of this plant to a closer position under the lights. The temperatures were no higher than 90, I water the plant using the tray method (and the tray never goes dry). Humidity is around 30-40%. Also, I'm looking for some good resources on growing the little ones that start to show up on the edges of the mother's leaves (circled in red in the picture); do I let them take root on their own, do I need to remove them from the mother plant at some point? If they're attached to a dying leaf are they toast? Thanks in advance.
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Post by hcarlton on Jul 19, 2012 6:23:47 GMT
Not burnt leaves, try old ones that aren't used to lower humidity or are simply dying naturally. As for the platnlets, the best course as I have experienced is to let them root where they are on their own, then if need be move them, but you can remove them now and root them separately as well. They just won't do so quite as quickly.
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Post by kwende on Jul 19, 2012 16:59:58 GMT
So should I put it back to where it was (about 5 inches below the 4 T8s), or is it indeed a good idea to lower the light intensity on these guys?
Recall the reason for my concern was that I noticed this issue shortly after I moved all of my plants a bit closer to the lights.
Thanks.
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Post by hcarlton on Jul 20, 2012 4:49:50 GMT
If the humidity is that low, no, I wouldn't move it back until it has a lot of newly acclimated leaves on it. Then, maybe you cna slowly move it closer, however it seems to be coming back ok where it is too.
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jeff
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Post by jeff on Jul 23, 2012 6:56:02 GMT
Bonjour
move away the neon ,use just the sunshine ,watering by the top ( substrate always wet) , you know these plant in spring are immerse 'in situ' like 2 others planifolia and ionantha. what is your substrate?
jeff
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