cindy
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Post by cindy on Oct 8, 2007 7:05:42 GMT
P. primuliflora does well in the tropical weather in Singapore and Malaysia. Full sun and with their pots standing in water. Media is pure sphagnum, the plants produce babies readily. Some plants flower occasionally. Temperature is in the high 80s nearly year round during the day.
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Post by jm82792 on Oct 10, 2007 5:34:21 GMT
It did well in hawaii in full sun sopping wet. 80s in the day 65 at night.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2007 7:56:22 GMT
jeez if experts like someof the people here are having trouble growing it i might as well not even try..... with my luck it would be dead then before i got home with it
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Post by pinglover on Oct 10, 2007 14:15:27 GMT
radjess331- How exactly do you define “people here are having trouble growing it”?
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Post by locko on Oct 10, 2007 14:50:39 GMT
Yeah only stupid me has problems with easy plants.
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Post by pinglover on Oct 10, 2007 14:59:03 GMT
locko, we've all got seemingly "easy" plants that we refer to as our bane. For me, it's P. lusitanica. I kill it left and right but still keep trying.
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cindy
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Post by cindy on Oct 10, 2007 15:33:28 GMT
And no other Pinguicula does well in Singapore except P. primuliflora!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2007 4:56:28 GMT
lol so you know how i said i wasnt going to try and grow it . well i ordered some plants and as a bonus i got a ping but i didnt know what it was till like 30 minutes ago and it turns out to be pinguicula primuliflora....now isnt that ironic....
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Post by jm82792 on Oct 21, 2007 23:36:28 GMT
Well I am looking for more warm temperate pings, I have a dime sized lute or pummilla that is doing okay. I have problems growing adelea next to my pings everyone has a problem plant.
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Post by Brian Barnes on Oct 31, 2007 12:08:02 GMT
Try using a higher sand/peat ratio for your mix {3/4 sand-1/4 peat} I've seen them many times in the wild here in Fl. and their soil is VERY sandy.
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Post by jm82792 on Nov 1, 2007 18:48:55 GMT
Okay I use perilite but I will look for builder sand, I have great success growing it,it gives me flower 2x monthly somes 1x. But if sand will help form plantlets sand it will be. I also got a hint from Kim Magnum on using sand with vfts since I am getting poor growth from them. So this spring I am going to do sand for them.
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Post by vraev on Dec 29, 2007 20:59:24 GMT
primuliflora seems to be bullet proof for me. I grow them right beside and in the exact same conditions as my capensis and VFT's. They grow in a peat, perlite mix. I haven't had a single loss. I started with one plant....now I still have the original which has flowered numerous times (1 yr since I got it) and has made more than 20-30 plantlets many of which I distributed away. Ironically they seem to be hard and died at the recieving end. May have to do with the fact that its roots are really delicate and shallow. I have started experimenting with the efficiency of live sphagnum and I notice that as with VFT's, primuliflora just LOVES IT. I have seen the fastest growth in this media. Something to do with water movement in a live tissue that its growing in...which probably prevents problems such as root rot and so on....not to mention the presence of natural anti-pathogenic agents produced by sphagnum itself. note: So far I have only killed 2 plantlets...when I totally forgot about a small bin which contained these plants and it became barren as a desert. The peat was like asif fresh out of a bag. totally dehydrated and as expected...the pings were crisp dead as a dry leaf. But apart from that...even a 1 mm plantlet seems to hang on and do very well. It definately isn't that hard if I can grow it like this. If anyone wants...I can show some pics. I just repotted all my plants. Also, any questions are welcome. Glad to help.
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Post by unstuckintime on Feb 3, 2008 21:18:20 GMT
I wanna know more about growing them tropically....i really dont like shutting half of my plants away for half the year, and so the idea of keeping one of these around all year intrigues me very much. Do you mind going into more detail for anyone who grows them as if it were a tropical?
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Post by DelawareJim on Feb 15, 2008 16:56:19 GMT
Mine has suddenly gone into decline.
I've had it in a 50:50 sand/peat mix growing in a southeastern windowsill since Christmas. The pot's been sitting in a pint soup container filled with about 2 - 2-1/2 inches of rain water and the plant was growing great until about a week ago. Suddenly, the older leaves have all turned brown and the newest leaves are small, shriveled and the whole plant looks like it's drying up.
Any idea what happened?
Cheers. Jim
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Post by Brian Barnes on Feb 15, 2008 22:54:35 GMT
Hey Jim. I hate to say it, but it sounds like a goner to me. Possibly some kind of fungal infection maybe or too much direct light all at once? I've always changed the water on mine every few weeks or i let it slowly get drier for a while, then flood it again. I use pure RO water. It seems to encourage flowering and discourage fungal growth while sitting, unlike rainwater, at least for me. Good Luck, Brian.
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