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Hi all.
These are the first successful cuttings i have had of drosera. I have two D. binata (dichotoma) (format?)[Edit: please do not use single quotes for anything but valid cultivar names. This should read: Drosera binata (dichotoma)] cuttings sprouted and planted (just barely noticable roots.) And three D. capensis cuttings sprouted and planted, these have a bit larger roots.
I'm happy!
Dave
Update: Parents convinced to allow me to keep greenhouse heated over winter. Most species will not be lost. Too lazy to update growlist.
Good!
Tre Bond
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A good home for any construciton site plants
Thanks, by the way, i had a capensis[Edit: corrected spelling, Drosera capensis] flowering, and i shook the closed flower and some stuff came out. What do capensis[Edit: corrected spelling, Drosera capensis] seeds look like?
Update: Parents convinced to allow me to keep greenhouse heated over winter. Most species will not be lost. Too lazy to update growlist.
Could you describe your process, please?Originally Posted by [b
Quote[/b] (TunaSurprise @ Mar. 15 2005,9:32)]Hi all.
These are the first successful cuttings i have had of drosera. I have two D. binata 'dichotoma' (format?) cuttings sprouted and planted (just barely noticable roots.) And three D. capensis cuttings sprouted and planted, these have a bit larger roots.
I'm happy!
Dave
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Outstanding. Congratulations. One of the greater joys of growing plants, making more plants.
Joseph Clemens
Tucson, Arizona, U S A
Very true Pingman.
My process:
1. Take scissors.
2. remove leaf.
3. place leaf in water OR place leaf in wet peat with a small depression place in soil through depression, and cover that with a bit of soil to aid in keeping the cutting watered.
4. wait
5. wait
6. remove plantlets by removing cut leaf and cutting off the leaf around the cutting leaving a few millimeters around it.
7. place in new home
BTW Pingman, i knew it probably wasn't correct in the first place, so i put (format?) in to ask.
Update: Parents convinced to allow me to keep greenhouse heated over winter. Most species will not be lost. Too lazy to update growlist.
Steps 4 and 5 seem to be the key to making cuttings
So far I've only gotten D.filiformis and MAYBE D.slackii (maybe for 2 reasons, one I don't know if that's truly what the plant is, and secondly I'm not entirely sure that it is a rooted cutting, might actually be a plant that came from the roots)
D.filiformis seems to actually want to have leaf cuttings taken, somehow, I know I'm repeating that as soon as the just-outta-dormancy leaves are long enough again...
TunaSurprise,
I realized that, I just wanted to include an explanation.
Joseph Clemens
Tucson, Arizona, U S A
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