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You might find this thread to be useful
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1582
and you will find 20 or so links to photos of what the owners call D. affinis at
http://www.humboldt.edu/~rrz7001/Drosera.html
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1582
and you will find 20 or so links to photos of what the owners call D. affinis at
http://www.humboldt.edu/~rrz7001/Drosera.html
Hi,
Drosera affinis is an easy to grow species. In winter, it likes it a bit warmer than other african Drosera (remember this plant comes from Namibia, which is a bit more to the north than south-africa). I am cultivating this plant since 2004 and had no trouble with them so far, except, that my plants have not yet flowered. Last year i was happy to get some seeds of this species. They have germinated as good as most of the other easy south-african Drosera.
Btw, it can easily propagated by leaf cuttings.
Christian
Drosera affinis is an easy to grow species. In winter, it likes it a bit warmer than other african Drosera (remember this plant comes from Namibia, which is a bit more to the north than south-africa). I am cultivating this plant since 2004 and had no trouble with them so far, except, that my plants have not yet flowered. Last year i was happy to get some seeds of this species. They have germinated as good as most of the other easy south-african Drosera.
Btw, it can easily propagated by leaf cuttings.
Christian
glider14
Always a newbie
[b said:
Yep, thats why I wrote what I did below the picture
Joe, what you mentioned is just an example of Forbes' great record keeping; he got the plant from Ivan Snyder. It could well be that somewhere in the propagation process there was a label mix-up. I'll have to ask Ivan next meeting.
Peter
Hi,
Most likely there are more wrong ided Drosera affinins, than the true one. True affinis looks nothing like the plant in the picture above (which looks like a Drosera spatulata to me). Here is an older picture of one of my plants:
Drosera affinis
Christian
Most likely there are more wrong ided Drosera affinins, than the true one. True affinis looks nothing like the plant in the picture above (which looks like a Drosera spatulata to me). Here is an older picture of one of my plants:
Drosera affinis
Christian
It's a little hard to tell right now, as it was an extra thrown in. It's still very small, and recovering from shock. I assume it was grown in a terrium so it looks like it may have to get use to the lower humidity, which is still around 70% because I live near the water. I guess I'll know more when it's bigger. From the photos I've seen I'd say it's more likely than not D. affinis.
You can see pictures of one of my D. affinis Namibia plants here: http://sdcarnivorousplants.photosite.com/BACPSsh....ad.html
http://sdcarnivorousplants.photosite.com/BACPSsh....ad.html
(looking rather stressed after spending a few days in the car). I believe it's the real McCoy. It came to me from a local TC expert, not Ivan. Peter's plant (most indubitably a D. spatulata) came from the LACPS seedbank, which is run by Ivan. In the future, I will have to remember to confiscate the labels from the mislabeled plants I give to Peter for the bog at the local botanical gardens...
BTW Peter, don't you owe me $10? If you're short on cash, I could be convinced to accept your camera as remuneration. I know where you live, ya know.
ZAK,
The plants I sent are cuttings that were growing in the sort of sealed containers illustrated below. They will grow quickly if gradually acclimated to bright, airy conditions.
I find the species grows easily in good peat-based mixes or clean podzols. It appears to favor the same moderately warm, bright conditions as the other ever-growing South African sundews.
http://sdcarnivorousplants.photosite.com/BACPSsh....ad.html
(looking rather stressed after spending a few days in the car). I believe it's the real McCoy. It came to me from a local TC expert, not Ivan. Peter's plant (most indubitably a D. spatulata) came from the LACPS seedbank, which is run by Ivan. In the future, I will have to remember to confiscate the labels from the mislabeled plants I give to Peter for the bog at the local botanical gardens...
BTW Peter, don't you owe me $10? If you're short on cash, I could be convinced to accept your camera as remuneration. I know where you live, ya know.
ZAK,
The plants I sent are cuttings that were growing in the sort of sealed containers illustrated below. They will grow quickly if gradually acclimated to bright, airy conditions.
I find the species grows easily in good peat-based mixes or clean podzols. It appears to favor the same moderately warm, bright conditions as the other ever-growing South African sundews.
Thanks Forbes Both the plants you sent me have now become "office plants". I had a few of those square terriums from a recent Lowes rescue and I put them in those. I just changed the lights in my office to 1-5000kand 1-3000k. Both plants seem to have improved noticably since I've brought them to the office. I'll acclimate them to the humidity when their a little larger. Heaven know as much as I'm at the office these day they'll get more attention from me than my home plants. Thanks again.
