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Pinguicula primuliflora

Joseph Clemens

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<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>Here is a nice pot of Pinguicula primuliflora, photo taken 16 December 2004. Originally this was a spare empty pot (with media, but no plants). I had two small leaf-tip formed plantlets that needed a home. They were so small and weak I thought they would never survive. I planted them anyways - the photo only tells part of the story. I removed four seedpods from earlier flowers and cropped out one fresh flower to balance the photo (it was on the right - you can see its stalk up to the edge of the pot).

Right after this photo I pollinated all the mature flowers.</span>

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easy to grow?
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??? i cant grow it. ive got 4 other Pings doing wonderfully but i have killed several primuliflora. its on a list along side Venus flytraps of plants i just cant grow. i can grow harder stuff but give me something bomb proof and i will kill it.
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great photo by the way!!!!!!
 
<span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>Here is a little tray of Pinguicula primuliflora plants started by collecting the leaf-tip plantlets from two plants and planting them together in a 3" wide x 4.5" long tray.</span>

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Interjection: No Pinguicula pollen is visible in these photos. The yellow visible is strictly part of the corolla.

The dark specks peppering the leaves is a dusting of powdered freeze-dried mosquito larvae (plant food).
 
Very nice! My one atempt at prims failed even worse then darlingtonia(kept darrs alive for a year before but then let them freeze and they died)
 
>;-D , rattler_mt

I know what you're talking about I have two pots of cephs that are growing very well, but I can't keep a primuliflora alive for more than a few weeks and VFT die soon after that.
 
Does Pinguicula primuliflora need dormancy?
 
It's not a temperate species and does not form a hybernacula, neither is it a tropical species. Some people say that it needs a minimum kind of dormancy (simply a change of season). I put my S.E. USA Pinguicula into the refrigerator for a couple of months if they seem to slow down in their growth. Usually this only happens every 3rd or 4th year (sometimes it does not happen), but only to a few plants and not the majority.
 
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Quote[/b] ](kept darrs alive for a year before but then let them freeze and they died)

If I understansd you correctly, your Darlingtonia died because of a freeze? If so, it must have gotten very very cold indeed for that to happen.

-Homer
 
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I've had the same primuliflora plant residing on a window sill, open tray, for 16 months. It has produced many plantlets and flowers. It IS bombproof!
 
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Yeah it frooze solid and died after growing realy well in the summer....I`ll have to give one another shot some day.
 
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I can't grow pings for some reason, every attempt fail... I have found a way to keep them alive, plant them in pure lfs and feed them once in a while. I have never had sucess with primufolia's though after three attempts.
 
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I can grow p.primuliflora with no problem, but its p.lutea that I kill!
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