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Post by cindy on Oct 21, 2007 23:59:35 GMT 8
I have a plant grown in a small porcelin pot which is submerged partially in water. Today when I was about to top up the container with water, I noticed the plantlets. The portion of leaf was removed and placed on some live sphagnum so that the young plants have a chance to grow out.
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Post by lisham on Oct 22, 2007 9:21:30 GMT 8
waaaa so cute! Both the plantlets and the flower pattern on the nail. Hehehehe... Good for you cindy!
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Post by David on Oct 22, 2007 10:11:16 GMT 8
Man, just like that also can grow plantlets. Cute little babies you have there Cindy.
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Post by lisham on Oct 23, 2007 10:40:24 GMT 8
David, my D. adelae oso got plantlets.
But like Tarences' son (that's the first D. adeleae that I got), the babies are moody too.
One day they're putting nice leaves with red dew, the next day they're brown all over then repeat. I put them in shade, full sun, bright shade, places that I cant see them, bring them out again (sighs) they just wont grow like the ones seen on the net.
But they're alive. it's like one of those love hate love hate relationship. That's for 1 D. adeleae. I got one 4", five half inch ones, that a total of six D. adeleae, six times the headache. Hehehe...
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Post by tarence on Oct 23, 2007 10:56:09 GMT 8
My moody grandchildren ah those ? heheh....as for me, they seem to grow the best-est in morn` sun, protected from heavy downpours.
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Post by lisham on Oct 23, 2007 11:18:09 GMT 8
I am growing them in morning sun lor, no rain. Watered by tray. sometimes I just wish I could take them out to dinner, have a heart to heart chat with them so that they'd tell me, how to grow them properly.
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Post by cindy on Oct 23, 2007 12:07:00 GMT 8
D. adelae has always been a MAJOR love-hate affair for me. L - Beautiful sundew which turns all red and is large H - It came from TP all dead and mushy. Only a few thread-like roots were found in the media. L - Plantlets appeared from the roots and they did very well. L - Within the same year, I could pass numerous D. adelae plants out to interested growers. H - All of my own plants suddenly die back. H - Very few offshoot from roots survived. H - I lost my last plant. L - For the love of it, I went and got a few plants back from the growers I gave them to. H - I have a few struggling plants while other growers have them growing out of those netted Nep pots! L - It produced plantlets on a leaf. Anymore eye-rolling and my eye balls will fall out over this finicky species!
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Post by lisham on Oct 23, 2007 12:44:30 GMT 8
it's ok cindy... when that happens, you know we're here for you... for emotional support and also to poke em back in... heheheh....
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Post by cindy on Oct 23, 2007 13:08:33 GMT 8
OUCH!!
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Post by tarence on Oct 23, 2007 13:30:56 GMT 8
Lisham : there shall be no eye-poking here, even tho it`s Cindy`s. heheh.
Cindy : we`ll assist to re-slot your eyeballs. do both eyes look the same & do they have L & R labells ? coz we might mistakenly re-slot the left to right & vice versa. *smile*
I love d.adelae too. It was one of my first sundews. Back then, I only had spatulatha & adelae. You can imagine my frustrations when the adelae decided to do it`s magic tricks periodically. Now you see it , then you don`t. Once I came back frm a 1 week holiday and the whole adelae `bush` had disappeared. *aiyo*
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Post by David on Oct 23, 2007 13:42:10 GMT 8
I have also found this species to be so difficult to take care of. I've gotten plants from Lim and Tarence and all of them have died. The latest I've gotten from a friend in Singapore. So far so good. Lots of dews and growing new leaves, but I suspect it could be due to the cool weather because of the rain we are experiencing everyday in KL.
Kinda happy with the weather as my sundews are growing better. I really hope this batch of adelaes survive in the long run for me.
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Post by tarence on Oct 23, 2007 13:43:38 GMT 8
Don`t tell them about the d.capensis David...oops.
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Post by lisham on Oct 23, 2007 22:47:34 GMT 8
Cindy... Dont get any spag moss on your eyeballs ok? spagmoss+eyeballs=irritation.
Tarence.... now that you roused our curiousity... what's the story with D. capensis?
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Post by tarence on Oct 24, 2007 15:17:19 GMT 8
short story dat capensis.
it came.
it died.
not mine laa.
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Post by David on Oct 24, 2007 18:07:24 GMT 8
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