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I have no pictures yet, but so far I have tried just laying out the leaves right-side-up on barely damp vermiculite in a clear, covered deli-food container. It worked great and my leaves of Pinguicula moranensis all budded up nicely.
I am also experimenting with PinguiculaMan's method of placing barely damp LFS in sealed ziploc baggies. So far, a couple of P. 'Sethos' and P. esseriana leaves have budded while the others look unchanged. However, it has barely been a week, so I shouldn't try to rush things...
Corey
I am also experimenting with PinguiculaMan's method of placing barely damp LFS in sealed ziploc baggies. So far, a couple of P. 'Sethos' and P. esseriana leaves have budded while the others look unchanged. However, it has barely been a week, so I shouldn't try to rush things...
Corey
You should be able to find some in my old posts about this subject. I will try to help. If I find them first I will add them to this post.
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My most recent success was P. gigantea the plant started to rot from the crown. So I pulled off the leaves that still had life to them and tossed them in a storrage container about half full of LFS and I keep the water anywhere from halfway to surface level of the LFS. There is no top and this is kept 2 inches from flourecent tubes... Here's a picture of the recent growth... I started these leaves only about a week ago...
Andrew
Andrew
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Very nice adnedarn! Very nice indeed! What plant did you take the leaves from if you don't mind my asking? Also too, exactly how wet are you keeping that LFS? Looks pretty wet to me which would make sense.
Say Ispahan, I am a big fan of food storage containers. Have you ever tried the nice little ones from Wendy's salads? I don't eat at fast food places but I started biying their rabbit food so that I could get the trays. My bad!
Very nice adnedarn! Very nice indeed! What plant did you take the leaves from if you don't mind my asking? Also too, exactly how wet are you keeping that LFS? Looks pretty wet to me which would make sense.
Say Ispahan, I am a big fan of food storage containers. Have you ever tried the nice little ones from Wendy's salads? I don't eat at fast food places but I started biying their rabbit food so that I could get the trays. My bad!
Oh my gosh, I got hung up looking at the photo again and never even noticed you had written anything above the image you posted. I'm obviously having a blonde moment. Forgive me. TWO WEEKS AGO! All of that growth in 2 weeks. Impressive. My hand is twitching to rip off one of the lower leaves of my P. gigantea but I am still hesitant to do so unless I could be assured I could get results such as yours. Too cool Andrew! You done good!
---I use small plastic containers with clear plastic covers. They are sold for food storage, usually left-overs. I sometimes just place the Mexican Pinguicula leaves on top of the lid of one of these containers and wait. It gets good light, but only the moisture from the humidity in the air. The leaves start to dry up, but, so far, I have most usually obtained a crop of small plantlets by the time the parent leaves have shriveled up to a husk. I then plant them. I admit though that I rarely do this. Usually I put the severed leaves into a ziploc with a small quantity of barely moist LFS instead. This produces larger plantlets and the parent leaves usually persist to continue nourishing the forming plantlets.
From my experience it is kinda difficult to not obtain new plants from severed Mexican Pinguicula leaves. About the only way this will rarely work is if you don't remove the leaves manually. Even this will not prevent it from eventually happening. Nearly all of them if grown successfully for a sufficient period of time will generate some plantlets from the bases of their old dying leaves, which will then crawl out from under the parent plant.
---I had used cinnamon oil, about 1 drop in 1 pint of water and sprayed it on CP leaves affected by mites. I had some leaf damage, I believe from the cinnamon oil. I now only put cinnamon oil on pieces of paper towel and place them on the back of my fans so it can volatize into the room. It is reported to have antifungal properties. I have never worried about fungus and I only use it to inhibit mites, which I believe it does.
From my experience it is kinda difficult to not obtain new plants from severed Mexican Pinguicula leaves. About the only way this will rarely work is if you don't remove the leaves manually. Even this will not prevent it from eventually happening. Nearly all of them if grown successfully for a sufficient period of time will generate some plantlets from the bases of their old dying leaves, which will then crawl out from under the parent plant.
---I had used cinnamon oil, about 1 drop in 1 pint of water and sprayed it on CP leaves affected by mites. I had some leaf damage, I believe from the cinnamon oil. I now only put cinnamon oil on pieces of paper towel and place them on the back of my fans so it can volatize into the room. It is reported to have antifungal properties. I have never worried about fungus and I only use it to inhibit mites, which I believe it does.
Wesley
God must have an interesting sense of humor
There is NOTHING to it but to do it! LOL I did some last summer with summer leaves because they came off during shipping. Summer leaves aren't even recommend but even these work. Just make sure you get the base of the leaf, and give them a little humidity. I do mine in pure vermiculite. I actually just took some last night. The Savage Garden says that you can remove up to half the mother's leaves with not harm to her.[b said:
The leaves look brown in the picture, but in real life they are a very nice green.
The cuttings
The mother plant a few weeks ago, sorry the pics aren't that big, and I don't want to have to resize them(I'm lazy on Saturdays)
Laura,
All of these little ones were started from leaf pullings of various Mexican Pinguicula plants. Best of all, each of these little plants have plenty of smaller size leaves they can easily spare to start the next round, or even make it more prolific than the first round. As you can see, if you keep on it, you can turn one plant into an incredibly large amount of plants in an amazingly short period of time. Once you have 10-20 spare plants you can easily afford to sacrifice a few to tweak your own growing technique to learn to be the best grower you can possibly be.
All of these little ones were started from leaf pullings of various Mexican Pinguicula plants. Best of all, each of these little plants have plenty of smaller size leaves they can easily spare to start the next round, or even make it more prolific than the first round. As you can see, if you keep on it, you can turn one plant into an incredibly large amount of plants in an amazingly short period of time. Once you have 10-20 spare plants you can easily afford to sacrifice a few to tweak your own growing technique to learn to be the best grower you can possibly be.
Oh Joseph, here I was all pumped to pull a leaf and I couldn't do it. The time to do it should have been back when I first received the plants, not now when the lower ones have already dies back. I missed my window of opportunity on the plants I have. Your babies look very nice and I will try to "make pings" the very next time I get a Mexican Ping. I'll have to wait.
Hey everybody... look at Josephs tags! Shopping at his house! He's got all the goodies stashed! Just teasing with you but those are very nice looking little pings.
Hey everybody... look at Josephs tags! Shopping at his house! He's got all the goodies stashed! Just teasing with you but those are very nice looking little pings.
I have tried a few from my P. agnata 'True Blue' and my P. 'Phil's Giant'. My leaves have turned black in a matter of about 48 hours. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I had them on LFS that was hydrated with distilled water. The LFS was damp not wet or overly moist in the least. I had a piece of cellophane over the top of the two trays.
