my cephs.. now. (i tried propagating using live lfs)

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malowie

• Jan 23, 2009

• #1

alright guys.... i did some leaf pullings...around 20 days ago.. and planted them on live long fiber sphagnum.. no results seen yet, but some leaves turned yellow.. some remain green!!!

just some live LFS on my baby truncata pot =)

ill update you guys about it!

 

Fryster

--Freedom Czar--

• Jan 23, 2009

• #2

I've always wondered.......................................


Would rooting hormone powder help with leaf pullings to strike?

I guess it might be species dependent I suppose. . .

 

jimscott

Tropical Fish Enthusiast

• Jan 23, 2009

• #3

If that's how the leaves look, after 3 weeks, then you will have a bazillion plantlets in February.

 

SirKristoff

• Jan 23, 2009

• #4

that doesnt look like a truncata

 

Capensis

• Jan 23, 2009

• #5

I was thinking just the same thing. The stem sort of looks like truncata, but then again, I don't own one so I'm probably wrong.
Edit: Are truncata's stem/vine fuzzy? I can see hair on it. Maybe it could be veitchii?

 

xvart

Doing it wrong until I do it right.

Staff member

Moderator

• Jan 23, 2009

• #6

N. truncata leaves are like little heart shaped squares.

xvart.

 

carnivoure12

Hear the Call of Nepenthes

• Jan 23, 2009

• #7

I have to agree with the everyone, here is what a truncata that size should look like http://triffidpark.com.au/htm_pages/photogallery/collector_n_truncata.jpg

 

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malowie

• Jan 23, 2009

• #8

SirKristoff said:

that doesnt look like a truncata

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most baby neps never look like what theyre supposed to unless adult. truncata is one of them.. they undergo drastic changes in leaf and pitcher shape and pitcher colour.

 

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malowie

• Jan 23, 2009

• #9

carnivoure12 said:

I have to agree with the everyone, here is what a truncata that size should look like http://triffidpark.com.au/htm_pages/photogallery/collector_n_truncata.jpg

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this is a juvenile truncata if not adult.

my truncata is barely an inch tall, and is still considered a seedling.

look at a seedling miranda. im sure you would say the pitchers of the baby miranda are much different than that of an adult miranda in terms of colour pattern etc.

 

Grey Moss

• Jan 23, 2009

• #10

that is not quite a truncata. The leaves are much longer than normal. When my truncata was half an inch across the leaves were heart shaped on distinct petioles. Yours seems more like maxima.

 

Ant

Your one and only pest!

• Jan 23, 2009

• #11

Yah, that isn't truncata...

 

Tony Paroubek

• Jan 23, 2009

• #12

N. truncata even as a very young juvenile plant will have characteristic N. truncata shaped leaves. Sorry to say your plant is 100% guaranteed without a doubt not a N. truncata.

 

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malowie

• Jan 23, 2009

• #13

alright. thanks for the information.

im wondering if those leaves will sprout...

 

Ant

Your one and only pest!

• Jan 23, 2009

• #14

they seem healthy, I say you are gonna have a good amount of plants in there.

 

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malowie

• Feb 1, 2009

• #15

update - still no signs of leaves striking as of 1 February 2009.

leaves were inserted into live sphagnum on 2 January 2009.

 

Grey Moss

• Feb 1, 2009

• #16

Don't worry, as long as they're not rotting they have a good chance of striking.

 

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malowie

• Feb 5, 2009

• #17

alright.

i had itchy fingers a few days ago and actually pulled out one of the leaves in the live sphagnum moss..

tomy surprise, there were roots! but they were only about like an inch long, and white in colour.

so i removed it and potted it into peat.. hopefully itll continue growing and sprout a grotwh tip for stem formation.

 

RL7836

• Feb 6, 2009

• #18

malowie said:

update - still no signs of leaves striking as of 1 February 2009.

leaves were inserted into live sphagnum on 2 January 2009.

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My most recent strike occurred on Jan 24, 2009. I placed it in the pot on Sept 24, 2008. While this may be a bit longer than usual, I've learned to not give up for quite a while. One time, even after the original leaf had wilted away, I dug it up and found a cyst-like ball below the surface. Oddly, there were no roots. I put it back in the media and several weeks later, there was a shoot. I think I recall Big Bella having one take quite a while ....

 

BigBella

• Feb 6, 2009

• #19

RL7836 said:

My most recent strike occurred on Jan 24, 2009. I placed it in the pot on Sept 24, 2008. While this may be a bit longer than usual, I've learned to not give up for quite a while. One time, even after the original leaf had wilted away, I dug it up and found a cyst-like ball below the surface. Oddly, there were no roots. I put it back in the media and several weeks later, there was a shoot. I think I recall Big Bella having one take quite a while ....

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The longest wait for a strike I have ever experienced with Cephalotus took over a year. Perhaps there was earlier -- callus -- development below the compost, but it was easily twelve months long before any leaf developed; the shortest strike occurred within three weeks.

Damn nasty little plant . . .

 

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malowie

• Feb 12, 2009

• #20

this is the leaf with roots an inch long i picked out of the LSM. as you can see from the picture i planted it in peat.

the basket as of 13/2/2009 (friday the 13th hahahaha)