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yeah its normal.....one of my alpinas that is growing out the bottom of the pot must have a half dozen tubers sitting in the open air on the tray bottom.....
i dont......i just let it do its thing......figure the plant knows best where the tubers should be....if it wants them at the surface it can have them at the surface for all i care.....
indoors.....couldnt grow outside if i wanted to.....to dry and the temps swing wildly.....only thing that has ever grown decently outside for me is mexi pings in summer.....the low humidity and wind fried the drosera i tried even though they were in a tray of water.....
So the temperature doesn't change much from day to night? I'm trying figure out what triggers them to flower. Also, do you remove the tubers and place them in a cold, dry environment?
Mine does that too, so I would say it's fairly normal. I keep mine moist year round indoors and they flower reliably each year... the only difference is that the stolons die back a bit over the winter, but always bounce back in spring.
mine dont flower.....prolly because my conditions are so stable.....its been suggested that if i let them dry out some they should flower......they are in the basement and temps fluctuate between 60 and 80 but its rare to see outside that........usually see a 10-15 degree change in temps from night to day as the lights warm it up and i like to sleep cool and they are in the basement where i sleep....
im pretty sure i could be tried for hate crimes in some countries for some of the stuff i did to U. tricolor in the past trying to get the SOB to bloom......if you have a pot of Utrics that is growing good but not flowering after being in your care for a decent length of time.....take a division, get it established and happy than proceed to torture the hell out of it to get it to bloom while leaving one pot in the conditions where it is growing fine for back up......its what i have usually done in the past.....just have had to much going on to try it recently with my Orichidioides.....
I do have the plants on timers, to roughly resemble the photoperiod. I do add water when there's next to nothing. Sometimes, some plants react to the change in water levels - like D. slackii. A at least the longifolia finally wants to flower, it seems.
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