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I'm getting a number of leaf cuttings of Genlisea aurea and 2 forms of G. hispidula and I was curious what would be the best way to start them? In Peat, live moss, floating in water...? Sorry if there's been a post about this before.
Pics I've seen show rosetted clumps kind of like a Sempervium, are those young clumps who just haven't carpeted yet or do they stay mostly confined to the "mound" shape?
Mine bloom once they start to get rootbound, it seems. Photoperiod might also have something to do with it... I mostly just stick them in a corner and ignore them so I'm not entirely sure. But once they do get to blooming, they don't seem to stop until I repot them. When mine were in competition with moss and the like they stayed rosetted, but these days I have a few pots that have been totally carpeted. At least one was a pot where I threw all the broken-off leaves and such after a big repotting, so that might explain why they're so prolific in there.
~Joe
Frequency of blooms depends on the species. I tended to find hispidula and violacea were pretty regular bloomers while pygmea, repens and lobata would only go once per year.
I tended to find that they did better in a peat/sand mix but that may have just been my conditions.
Most will strike well from leaves but I preferred to keep them on just damp moss rather than saturated moss, the latter just seemed to have higher loss rates
Thanks, I had planted the leaf pulls like when I'm trying to establish a utric (just flooded to the soil surface) but I have poured off the excess water after reading your note. We'll see how they go.
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