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Post by David on Oct 17, 2007 22:38:02 GMT 8
A thought just came into my mind. From what I read byblis usually will last about 2-3 years in cultivation. I have not reach there yet, so can't confirm on my plants.
I wonder if we do stem cutting on a byblis that is, lets say 3 years old. When the plant grow from the stem, will it start fresh as a new plant and last another 2-3 years or it will follow the life span of the original plant?
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Post by tarence on Oct 18, 2007 9:40:34 GMT 8
my 2 cts : the plantlets will grow as newbies, for another 3 years or the normal lifespan.
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Post by David on Oct 18, 2007 23:44:23 GMT 8
Guess the only way to know is to try and wait.  Hmm, if we compare with Neps,when we use an upper vine to do cuttings, we will get upper pitchers on the new shoot. Does this mean the plant is just a clone of the mother plant and it follows the age of the mother plant? If so, does byblis be the same? |
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Post by cindy on Oct 25, 2007 12:16:14 GMT 8
I got 9 seedlings!!! This batch was in the fridge for 2 weeks. The previous batch without refridgeration produced only 5 seedlings. I am going to try the 3rd batch and see how it goes. |
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Post by tarence on Oct 25, 2007 12:42:50 GMT 8
i got around there too in my latest bleached batch.....David & i observed that the bleached seeds will produce plantlets which look a little weird ( not like a byblis, just a thin dewless stalk ) when it first germinates. Only later ( a few days after germination ) will it have the byblis seedling `look`.
so Cindy, your byblis jungle is now gonna happen in the near future.
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Post by cindy on Oct 25, 2007 14:10:40 GMT 8
Yup! I hope I have got more germination in the next couple of days...but that could mean I might have to set up another rack of lights for the November/December period.  |
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Post by David on Oct 26, 2007 8:56:05 GMT 8
Tarence, Any updates on your byblis leaf cuttings? Still no sigh of plantlets appearing on my leaf and stem cuttings, but both leaf and stem cuttings are still alife (in my limited knowledge, based on the fact that they are still producing dews). I did some stem cuttings of various sizes from only about one-and-a-half inches long to a little over 2 inches long. I did the cuttings on 3 plants and so now the original plants are left with just about one-and-a-half inch stem from the ground. Don know if these will survive. Lets see how vigorous these plants are. If all is successful, from the 3 plants that I sacrific, I'll get 9 plants from the stem cuttings and a couple dozen plants from the leaf cuttings.  |
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Post by cindy on Oct 26, 2007 13:59:38 GMT 8
David, so far so good. Out of the nine, eight of them are already Y-shaped and dewy. The last one is a single stalk and still emerging from the seed coat.
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Post by lisham on Jan 3, 2008 13:51:39 GMT 8
Wanna show off the Byblis liniflora that I got from David (thanks a lot man!) it's been flowering non-stop after a week I got it through mail... Got seeds but no luck in germinating them yet...  p/s: I hang the pot together with the water tray as my upstair neighbor always pluck her gray hair and threw it down until the plant was covered in gray hair (no civic at all!) |
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Post by tarence on Jan 3, 2008 14:34:32 GMT 8
David : no luck with the byblis leaf. all dried up. sorry, i just saw your question.
Lisham : nice....pity about your inconsiderate neighbour. there`s one in every neighbourhood i`m afraid. mine smokes while i do my gardening & i sometimes `spray` him `accidentally` while i water my garden. heheh.
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Post by lisham on Jan 3, 2008 14:43:35 GMT 8
U sprayed him? Ok la... Mine (dono which floor above me) actually urinated from the balcony once... So no fertilizer sensitive plants around the "target" area... Sighs... some people dono how to live in apartments... BTW, the venus fly-trap u sent me (the big one went dormant...) I dono if it's doin ok or not... But i got babies from it... 14 lil plantlets... |
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Post by tarence on Jan 3, 2008 17:28:07 GMT 8
uh oh...sorry, most of my vfts which go dormant so far never revived. dormancy treatment too difficult i.e. keep in dark place, can`t be too dry, keep moist, period estimate 3 months. but well, you got your 14 new babes.
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Post by ischan on Jan 3, 2008 18:36:25 GMT 8
Hi guys, did anyone's stem cuttings strike into byblis plants?
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Post by David on Jan 4, 2008 10:02:07 GMT 8
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Post by tarence on Jan 7, 2008 8:42:30 GMT 8
Here`s what my current batch of byblis looks like.....thx David for the initial seeds & making my Byblis jungle dream materialise....when they bloom like this in the morn`, the amethyst colour of the flowers is really gorgeous. The only hindrance I have in propagating more plants is space as they need to be sheltered against strong wind & heavy raindrops so I can`t just put them anywhere in the garden....   |
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Post by David on Jan 7, 2008 23:08:47 GMT 8
Nice plants you have there Tarence. Make sure your new "girlfriend" does not bite the plants and chew on them.  |
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Post by tarence on Jan 8, 2008 8:29:29 GMT 8
heheh David....thx. She`s a good girl & she can`t jump 5 feet in the air to bite or chew on them.
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Post by lisham on Jan 8, 2008 11:06:32 GMT 8
Here`s what my current batch of byblis looks like.....thx David for the initial seeds & making my Byblis jungle dream materialise....when they bloom like this in the morn`, the amethyst colour of the flowers is really gorgeous. The only hindrance I have in propagating more plants is space as they need to be sheltered against strong wind & heavy raindrops so I can`t just put them anywhere in the garden.... (shaking head non-stop, walks away while saying... "Such a poisonous post... Such a poisonous post....") |
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Post by tarence on Jan 8, 2008 11:22:53 GMT 8
Lisham, i just collected the seeds from my original 1 plant, germinated those. Repeat process. Collect your byblis seeds, try the bleach germination method. One mother plant can give you hundreds of seeds thru its lifetime. Easy to achieve byblis jungle.
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Post by lisham on Jan 8, 2008 21:28:17 GMT 8
I got 1 batch in a pot... Got fungus... Ugly Ugly fungus that looks like green dirty cotton attacking my spag moss nowdays... How to deal with those ah? any brand of anti-fungus thing recomended? anybody wanna help me by sending a tested and tried (succesfully, I might add) anti-fungus solution?
I got like 15 seed pods in an envelope right now... How long can I keep them viable eh?
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