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Post by bud on May 10, 2013 0:45:31 GMT
About six weeks ago I was reading the page about propagating drosera from leaf cuttings and thought "that looks fun". I cut up the best looking leaf I could find and BAM this is what happened. That was fun. The picture shows cuttings from D. binata var. multifida f. extrema, I also tried a few sad looking D. rotundifolia leaves and they worked too. I ended up putting chopped LFS on top to stabilize the cuttings and then I put the pot in one of those magic pouches that keep the humidity high, starts with z, ends with iplock.
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Post by adamcross on May 10, 2013 2:14:41 GMT
Nice success with the Ziplocks, Bud! I recently tried a similar method on D. binata with success- took leaf cuttings of a similar size, and simply floated them on sterile DI water for a week or so. I kept them at about 25ºC, and ended up with perhaps a dozen plantlets on each leaf. Haven't tried this with any other Drosera yet, but will be trialling several native tuberous species in spring.
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Post by coline on May 10, 2013 4:05:43 GMT
In the water method, the drosera I have is marston dragon, it makes more than 50 plantlets from a single leaf! it is almost amazing, and about 40 or more survive the transplant. The water is the only I have tried, it saves lots of space and its really fast.
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Post by bud on May 11, 2013 0:47:14 GMT
I did start the leaf cuttings in water and just recently moved them to the pot in a ziplock bag. Sorry for the confusion everyone. I'm pretty sure they would work on the pot in a ziplock from the beginning, I'll cut up another leaf and try it, it amazed me how easy this was.
It would be awesome if tuberous sundews would be so easy, I'd love to hear/see how that goes.
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Post by coline on May 11, 2013 1:17:19 GMT
well for tuberous, what is done is the whole plant cutting,a basal cut or tissue culture.
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Post by adamcross on May 11, 2013 7:34:30 GMT
Coline- leaf propagation is possible for tuberous species.
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Post by coline on May 11, 2013 14:24:08 GMT
Interesting, if my peltata grows I will try it
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Post by bud on Jul 6, 2013 23:24:56 GMT
UPDATE 2 months ago I put some more cuttings straight on a peat/sand mix in a ziplock to see if that would work. The floating in water method was so easy I thought that skipping it and putting the cuttings in the plastic bag right away would work fine. Apparently not, the cuttings just dried up too fast. See below… In case you are wondering, the original cuttings that I took out of the water and put on soil in a plastic bag are doing great! See below…
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Post by adelea on Sept 13, 2013 0:50:29 GMT
I have used this method on spathulata's, adelae, binata's, alicae and several utricularia, from one 10cm adelae leaf i will get 10-30 plantlets, but from spathulata only 1 per leaf, it will not work on burmanni and i have never had sucess with tuberous drosera using this method.
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Post by coline on Oct 1, 2013 2:01:43 GMT
Exactly, and the highest of all yields from Binata type species, up to 60 plantlets
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Post by soniawild on Oct 24, 2013 5:32:44 GMT
I had success with this technique, with D.rotundifolia var.corsica , from a leaf were born ten seedlings The same technique also works for all D.filiformis and all D. binata
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Post by sykosarah on Nov 13, 2013 1:47:05 GMT
Leaf and root cutting is so much easier than seed propagation. Still, I always get an intense satisfaction out of seeing those little seeds split and sprout.
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