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Some Random Watering Day Photos

Here is one from last years auction, Drosera capillaris.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39807474@N07/5312701532/" title="005 by randallsimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5312701532_28de99c772_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="005" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39807474@N07/5312702904/" title="008 by randallsimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5170/5312702904_ff79cd4bd1_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="008" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39807474@N07/5312112509/" title="006 by randallsimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5166/5312112509_678026fe4c_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="006" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39807474@N07/5312110695/" title="002 by randallsimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5241/5312110695_5402498766_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="002" /></a>

Next up U. uniflora growing in some ADA aquasoil.
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Some Utricularia pubescens also in aquasoil.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39807474@N07/5312700598/" title="003 by randallsimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5283/5312700598_730f7ca114_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="003" /></a>

And last Genlisea violacea 'Giant' growing way down into the clear pot.
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I don't know about you, but that doesn't look like a capensis to me...maybe you mean capillaris or something? They're all very pretty though :awesome:
 
I agree with thez_yo. Plus, most people would be unlikely to buy a capensis at an auction, unless it was some kind of mutant.

By the way, the U. pubescens and the G. violacea are amazing!
 
I don't know about you, but that doesn't look like a capensis to me...maybe you mean capillaris or something? They're all very pretty though :awesome:

Picky, picky:-D. Thats what you get for using google to help spell something. Its corrected now.
 
A bit off topic, but that capillaris really reminds me of a patch of mutant daisy flowers I saw last spring... I wonder if it is a similar genetic mutation? It was basiclly 3 flowers joined together seamlessly, even the flowerstalk was about a centimetre wide, but only 2 millimetres deep... There were quite a few seperate clumps, so I think they may have been fertile! :crazy: I saw a dandelion like this too, but I didn't have my camera :/

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I had two capensis do that simultaneously last fall. I took pictures, but they're lost in Photobucket somewhere. Sadly, both succumbed to mealies. :crap:
 
That capilaris is freaky awesome!
 
That capillaris mound is awesome!

What is ADA Aquasoil? Is it actually "soil" or clay bits or...? They don't sell any of the ADA products around here outside the Nature Aquarium Books.
 
The capillaris was one plant when I potted it, but that was a long time ago so it might have sprounted off another. Today was the first day in over 4 months that I have removed it from its corner, it gets all its water from the tray method.

There are very long threads about what exactly ADA aquasoil is in the aquatic forums, all I recall is that it is clay based with some peat and tons of other things. You can get some ADA stuff in the states, if you google it, it comes right up. We picked up alot of ADA stuff when we were in Japan years ago.
 
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Another from today's watering.

Nepenthes gracilis starting to branch out.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39807474@N07/5316104943/" title="Nepenthes gracilis by randallsimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5248/5316104943_7946941b38_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="Nepenthes gracilis" /></a>
 
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Iirc, the D. capillaris has gone crestate - fairly weird phenomenon.

On the Aquasoil - I remember that you were growing U. nephrophylla in the stuff. How deep do you have it & do you crush the top layer or leave it in the small spheres? Water level just below the surface & allowed to drop between waterings?

I was thinking about sowing some U. uniflora seed on crushed Aquasoil.
 
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Iirc, the D. capillaris has gone crestate - fairly weird phenomenon.

On the Aquasoil - I remember that you were growing U. nephrophylla in the stuff. How deep do you have it & do you crush the top layer or leave it in the small spheres? Water level just below the surface & allowed to drop between waterings?

I was thinking about sowing some U. uniflora seed on crushed Aquasoil.

The container of U. nephrophylla in the Orchioides thread is planted in Aquasoil, I fill up the undrained container once a week, from the about I add I would say it evaporates 3/4 of the water by then. I don't crush anything up, the stuff is very easily crushed and I'm sure alot of it ends up crushed.

I soaked some Aquasoil then drained it so it was moist but not wet and put it in a closed vial with half of the U. uniflora seeds you send me. So far nothing is growing from any of those seeds.
 
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