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Cobra Lily Offshoots

jimscott

Tropical Fish Enthusiast
This:



...is now this:



 
Huh, I've never seen Darlingtonia's famed 'stolons' before. They look really cool. :awesome:

Good growing to get them that far.
 
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Lucky you! It's not every person who can even grow Darlingtonia, much less do what you have! I know I sure couldn't. :blush:
 
Sadly cobra lilies are just too sensitive to certain conditions for me to grow them.
 
You wouldn't know it, but I was a laughingstock on this forum for all my failed experiments with this species. Strangely, although it had a 'proper dormancy', it didn't flower. First pitcher of the season looks gnaryly, now, but here's what it looked like a couple months ago:

 
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I try not to bite off more than I can chew when it comes to plants. Which is why I always ask around about them before I get them, that way I don't end up with plants I can't care for.
 
I try not to bite off more than I can chew when it comes to plants. Which is why I always ask around about them before I get them, that way I don't end up with plants I can't care for.

From the Reader's digest Quotable Quotes: "Hindsight is 20-20... the rest is legally blind." I overcame my cobra lily woes. Same with a few other challenging species. OTOH, I don't have Nepenthes anymore, or tuberous sundews or Helis.
 
whats your medium? looks ultra sandy.
 
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Drainage + good nutrition + adequate light = stolons
 
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Sand, peat, and LFS
 
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