I remember when I used to read about folks who had stuff coming up in pots and they didn't know what it was...
Being a newbie at the time, I used to think "MAN, that would be so cool to just have tons of sundews, it wouldn't bother me if they were un-id-ed"
How times change- I must have over 500 sprouts in my collection that I have NO idea what the heck they are... it went from "delightful" to "still pretty cool" to now more like "dangit what the HECK is that"
My main problem is that I'm not SO serious a grower as to just cull stuff that I can't reconize right off the hop, just in case it IS what I was hoping it would be, but now I have almost 25% of my space taken up by huge mats of tiny red and green thingies, which was made even worse after my genius cutting-spree a couple of months back- I started with just cuttings of D "marston Dragon" and put one or two in the empty spaces of a few pots... THEN I dedcided that I could tell the difference between that and D.dichotoma "giant" so I took some cuttings of that and put it in a few other pots (being sure I could remember which) THEN I found that D.venusta can be easily propagated by flower-stalk cuttings, and having a LOT of them, well, I took a few moer- they are rosetted after all and would look nothing like the binata complex stuff I was doing... THEN I was repotting a D.collinsiae and got an extra root cutting or two, and I was PRETTY sure I put them into only one pot...
So now I have hordes of little plants hiding amongst their brothers and sisters- the cuttings I will be able to sort out I am sure, but the "volunteers" are driving me mad- they're SO small and crowded, EVERYTHING is red except for a couple of green ones mixed in (which is especially odd to me, since they are all of one or two species in the same conditions, most variability I've yet seen from seeds)
So I don't know what I'm trying to say, but I could ask about others with similar experiences, and what they did/plan to do/think they would do in this situation...
And I think I'm finally good enough to call myself "semi-experienced"
EDIT- I fully expect somone to tell me that I need to take better notes- I'll make a note of that when it happens
Being a newbie at the time, I used to think "MAN, that would be so cool to just have tons of sundews, it wouldn't bother me if they were un-id-ed"
How times change- I must have over 500 sprouts in my collection that I have NO idea what the heck they are... it went from "delightful" to "still pretty cool" to now more like "dangit what the HECK is that"
My main problem is that I'm not SO serious a grower as to just cull stuff that I can't reconize right off the hop, just in case it IS what I was hoping it would be, but now I have almost 25% of my space taken up by huge mats of tiny red and green thingies, which was made even worse after my genius cutting-spree a couple of months back- I started with just cuttings of D "marston Dragon" and put one or two in the empty spaces of a few pots... THEN I dedcided that I could tell the difference between that and D.dichotoma "giant" so I took some cuttings of that and put it in a few other pots (being sure I could remember which) THEN I found that D.venusta can be easily propagated by flower-stalk cuttings, and having a LOT of them, well, I took a few moer- they are rosetted after all and would look nothing like the binata complex stuff I was doing... THEN I was repotting a D.collinsiae and got an extra root cutting or two, and I was PRETTY sure I put them into only one pot...
So now I have hordes of little plants hiding amongst their brothers and sisters- the cuttings I will be able to sort out I am sure, but the "volunteers" are driving me mad- they're SO small and crowded, EVERYTHING is red except for a couple of green ones mixed in (which is especially odd to me, since they are all of one or two species in the same conditions, most variability I've yet seen from seeds)
So I don't know what I'm trying to say, but I could ask about others with similar experiences, and what they did/plan to do/think they would do in this situation...
And I think I'm finally good enough to call myself "semi-experienced"
EDIT- I fully expect somone to tell me that I need to take better notes- I'll make a note of that when it happens