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My U. Gibba is flowering!

I was looking through my terrarium whne i noticed my U. gibba was producing these spirating stockes piersing through the film of the water and about half an inch high!
I thought it was actually going to die as the entire cup of water evaporated when a third of my collection was horribly burned by the incorect lights.

I will post pictures tonight around 7-ish
 
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btw thankes jimscott for the shipping container you used I found it very usefull!
 
I thought that container looked fimiliar. Jimscott sent me one that looked like that as well. They make great pots. Really great U. gibba! I can't get mine to flower at all... I've had them for so long I'd expect them to have flowered at least once...
 
You're very welcome!
 
Thats why i posted, if it were a livida most poeple wouldn't care as it is an easy flowerer but from what i heard gibba is hard to flower. I think having allowed the water to evaporate continuously might have stressed the plant into flowering.
 
I was never able to flower mine indoors, but outdoors it went crazy and put up 20 or so scapes.  Nice big flowers too!

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The less water they have, the more likely to flower. Mine never flowers until the water levels are really low. Might be a survivial mechanism, but I don't know for sure.
 
Drying out is for sure a signal for flowering with this species, it's been well noted by many growers. Now if we could find the trigger for U. tricolor it would be grand.
 
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I received a pinch of U. tricolor and it flowered, but I have my doubts as to its pedigree. It is probably only a calcyfida.
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