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Utricularia rienformis

  • #21
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Quote[/b] (rattler_mt @ Nov. 03 2005,10:48)]tricolor is easy to grow and darn near impossible to flower
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i have yet to find a set of conditions where i cant get it to grow and flurish. i just cant get the SOB to flower.
Yeah, I get the stalks - but not the flowers! What's with that?
 
  • #22
SO U. tricolor isn't much of a lowland plant I take it? Mine disappeared in the pot this summer when the temps in my lowland chamber got to 110F plus. Its now returning very nicely.
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  • #23
actually i had a bunch of U. tricolor doing nicly as a shallow aquatic in 95 degree day temps 80 degree nights. 110 might be a lil much though
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  • #24
Given the range cited in Taylor tricolor is pretty much a broad spectrum plant found in both low and high land conditoins. I shoot more for the intermediate since it would cover most growing conditions fine and I don't think anyone knows excatly where the majority of tricolor clones come from.
 
  • #25
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Quote[/b] (Starman @ Nov. 01 2005,10:42)]OK I have finnaly cracked how to grow U.reniformis so I think Il pipe in......
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I have re-potted it into a large, 25 centimetre pot in August and I topped the soil with LFS. The soil used was peat dominated with a bit of sand added.
I then put it in shady conditions in my greenhouse, where it gets cool nights and I always keep the media wet.
And now, its produced a HUGE leaf, bigger then in a lot of pictures I see, its almost three times the size of all the others.
Its also sending up a lot more leaves too, and Im sure it will flower if I get the winter conditions right aswell.

So basiclly, they like their soil surface topped with LFS, they like wet conditions all the time and they like a LOT of room to spread.
Im basiclly growing it like a cool growing orchid now, except for it has its soil constantly wet, and its working extremely well
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it generally does NOT like to be too wet, this causes it to rot. I do not stand in water, but water from above when the surface starts to dry, using sphagnum as an indicator of this as a surface dressing. they prefer an open compost, I use 50% perlite.
 
  • #26
No no, I dont stand it in water.....

Also, Ive had the plant for like 2 years and its been kept geenrally wet untill now and it didnt rot.....
 
  • #27
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Quote[/b] (nepenthes gracilis @ Nov. 03 2005,4:14)]SO U. tricolor isn't much of a lowland plant I take it? Mine disappeared in the pot this summer when the temps in my lowland chamber got to 110F plus. Its now returning very nicely.
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Mine didn't go underground but it didn't grow or expand at all, It was outside and we had 90's most of the summer. Now that it is inside and by a drafty window, in the low 60's it has doubled in size.
 
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