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I'll dig around and see, I know I divided it and gave it away a couple years ago
It wasn't what I wanted in hispida
I have one of those divisions and the pitchers are still very much immature.
I'll dig around and see, I know I divided it and gave it away a couple years ago
It wasn't what I wanted in hispida
More to it. Look at Maiden's pic - difference is obvious...So are immature pitchers just smaller, or is there more to it than that (I don't grow these plants, not familiar with them)
I'm having the same issues with H.hispida and H.elongata. They will produce "adult" pitchers but the plants seem to be dwarfed.
The Karaurin tepui elongata(s?) seems to flourish in multiple european collections, but agreed, the ilu clone(s) should be called H. perpetuajuvenili, I don't recall even seeing one of the latter with adult pitchers in Europe:
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=52401&page=1
let's see your dwarf elongata cthulu, even that is a breakthrough imo. It's an ilu clone or...? I've had juveniles for 7 years or more, multiple imports, same behavior. And like all my plants, they are always cold, with lowish light guaranteed by t12s.
let's see your dwarf elongata cthulu, even that is a breakthrough imo. It's an ilu clone or...? I've had juveniles for 7 years or more, multiple imports, same behavior. And like all my plants, they are always cold, with lowish light guaranteed by t12s.
I and one other grower tried applying NA, on the hypothesis that cytokinins from multiplication had caused lingering DNA methylation changes that were causing the plants to continue dividing instead of maturing. This had no effect, though only one NA concentration was tried, and only on a small number of plants:
http://www.terraforums.com/forums/s...-go-beyond-junvenile-stage?highlight=elongata
Your hypothesis has the virtue of being testable, and is worth a try, but it seems like the role of GA is not that straightforward AFAIK. Taiz and Zeiger reference added gibberellins causing early maturation in conifers, but note that added gibberellins cause reversion to juvenile form in Hedera helix. Neither are closely related to Heliamphora, but Hedera is significantly closer, so that's why I question adding GA as the solution. I'm the first to admit I'm no expert on plant phys--do you any references to forced maturation in herbs from adding Gibberellins? (That's not a rhetorical question, I'm actually asking, as I'd gladly try it if there's evidence it could work.)